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Rice doubles Eustace, 59-24

Sun, 01/07/2024 - 01:00

Field day for Burks, 32-points, 9 boards

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Ennis girls catch cold, fall 45-32

Sun, 01/07/2024 - 01:00

Iced at the FT line, 7-of-25 costly in loss

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Avalon resume Class 1A flight pattern

Sun, 01/07/2024 - 01:00

Eagles A.D., Malcolm Cole, leads program upward

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Rice maintains Class 3A, Div. 2 status

Sun, 01/07/2024 - 01:00

Bulldogs probably keep district comrades

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Italy secure in Class 2A, Div. 1

Sun, 01/07/2024 - 01:00

Gladiators’ multi-sport success marches on

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Live sports can be wildly entertaining, giving viewers lots of ups and downs to enjoy (or endure). That emotional roller coaster has made live sports, and football in particular, especially popular among television viewers. Data from Nielsen indicates that the National Football league was responsible for 45 of the 50 largest Nielsen-measured sports audiences in 2022. In fact, the top 32 events were all NFL games, with the 2021-22 College Football Playoff National Championship Game between Georgia and Alabama coming in at no. 33 among the year’s most watched sporting events. Even the thrilling World Cup Final between Argentina and France was no match within the United States for the NFL, garnering 22.32 million viewers. By comparison, that year’s Super Bowl between the Rams and Bengals attracted 99.18 million viewers. Curiously, despite baseball’s designation as “America’s pastime,” Major League Baseball did not have a single game place among the 50 most watched sporting events of 2022.

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And, did you know?

Sun, 01/07/2024 - 01:00

January 15, 2024, marks the fifty-seventh anniversary of the first Super Bowl. Though it would be two more years before the name “Super Bowl” was used to characterize the game, what’s now referred to as “Super Bowl I” was a competition between the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League (AFL) and the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). Back then the game was referred to as the AFL-NFL World Championship Game, which most fans would agree does not have the same ring to it as “Super Bowl.” The game was competitive in the first half, and the score was 14-10 in favor of Green Bay at halftime. But the Packers blanked the Chiefs in the second half, and the final score was 35-10 in favor of Green Bay. In a testament to just how different things were in 1967, two networks, NBC and CBS, were allowed to broadcast the game, each using their own announcers. Also noteworthy is the game was not a sellout, marking the only time that has happened in Super Bowl history.