The league claims that players reported half as many concussions after the caps were mandated for practices.
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For the first time, players will be permitted to wear Guardian Caps over their helmets during regular season games.
Optimistic Scotland fans at the opening match against hosts Germany at Euro 2024.
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For host cities football fans are simultaneously potential consumers and criminals. But they have rights, and fan zones are a good way of protecting fans, the public and the streets.
A woman has recently been jailed for stalking singer Harry Styles.
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Despite being public figures, celebrities – like everyone – deserve a level of privacy.
The Conversation.
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‘Real person Slash’ imagines queer relationships between celebrities, and whole sub-fandoms emerge around queer ships of real people.
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In my research into One Direction fans, I heard how shame is experienced, perpetuated and internalised – but it also provides the foundation for these close-knit communities.
The Conversation, Hachette Book Group, Bloomsbury.
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Fans who were girls in the era of Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Twilight are now the women who have powered the success of Barbie and the Eras Tour.
In the cult TV series ‘Supernatural,’ the car driven by the two protagonists is a star in its own right.
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Since 2019, fans of the TV series ‘Supernatural’ have flocked to Austin, where their encounters with 1967 Impalas customized to mimic the one used in the show arouse elation, astonishment and tears.
A person walks past a screen showing news reporting about Johnny Kitagawa’s passing away in Tokyo in July 2019.
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How will fans’ advocacy and commentary shape a reckoning about sexual assault and exploitation in the entertainment industry in Japan that has been exposed through the Johnny & Associates scandal?
Air conditioners often become the default solution when temperatures rise.
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Air con uses lots of energy – try these things first.
Northern Europe will experience the greatest relative increase in uncomfortably hot days if global temperature rise reaches 2°C.
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Rising temperatures threaten the UK, Switzerland and Norway with more uncomfortably hot days – new research.
Taylor Swift’s fans were not happy when it was rumoured she had started dating infamous bad boy Matt Healy.
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Sometimes you have to let your friends know when they’ve made a bad choice in life but there’s a way to go about it.
Chinese boy band TFBoys performing in Nanjing City.
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In social media posts during the pandemic, fans posit their idols as loyal to the nation, the people and the party state.
Chris Brown performing in 2022.
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How fans attending Chris Brown’s sold out UK tour are referencing race in their arguments against the singer’s ‘cancellation’.
DraftKings is one of a handful of sportsbooks that have been advertising during live sporting events.
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The opportunity to place bets has changed the way games look, the way they’re talked about – and, of course, how many people have money riding on the outcome.
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Extreme heat kills more Australians than any other natural hazard. Here’s why it’s important to keep an eye on older family and friends this summer.
Split soccer loyalties?
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As the World Cup kicks off in Qatar, a scholar probes questions of identity in the American game. Is Mexico really the US’s ‘other team’?
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Renaissance is Beyoncé’s first solo album in more than five years, and her first fully dance album.
An online audience is reading the vampire novel for the first time, en masse.
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A newsletter sends out chronological snippets from the 125-year-old novel ‘Dracula.’ Fans on the internet go wild.
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Being a fan can be good for you – even in defeat.
Nicki Minaj’s vaccination claim that caused an uproar Sept. 13 was publicly refuted by Trinidad and Tobago’s health minister.
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Nicki Minaj’s international anti-vaccine fiasco reveals the life-and-death stakes at the heart of normalizing a culture of fandom tribalism.