In addition to a player’s ability to throw it, a number of factors will influence a ball’s flight, including its size, inflation pressure and texture.
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The falsetto virtuosity of the Weeknd, headliner of this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, contrasts with popular ShantyTok singalongs. How do these both reflect masculinity in 2021?
Paul Hogan, in a new Tourism Australia ad.
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Tourism Australia’s Super Bowl commercial is good strategy, reflecting familiar popular signifiers of Australia. Straying outside of these concepts hasn’t proven successful.
The Eagles won on the pitch, but who won online?
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Bots, brand jackers, big shots, as well as traditional businesses all bossed the Super Bowl social media space.
Not everyone got to see Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey ) and Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) in the opening season seven episode of Game of Thrones.
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The problems some people had trying to watch Game of Thrones via the internet shows we still have a long way to go before we can live-stream major events to a mass online audience.
Tweet success and sweet success increasingly go hand in hand.
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In the brave new world of contemporary sport-watching, the goalposts have moved. Watching the big game (once a simple matter of grabbing a beer and some chips and settling down in front of the television…
Many sports fans appear to have more fun outside the stadium than in.
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The math involved is quite simple. Be it an Australian Open final, Melbourne’s race that stops a nation or the Superbowl, more people want to attend than can fit in the venue. Less simple, however, are…