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Full Court Press: Making bank on the Big Dance

By Noah Goldstein | March 14

Although buzzer-beaters and ads with Charles Barkley are great, my favorite aspect of March Madness is undoubtedly its ability to turn players into stars in the blink of an eye. While some of these sensations don’t end up succeeding at the next level (sorry, Sindarius Thornwell — I really thought you were the next big thing), others, like Steph Curry at Davidson, show their first flashes of greatness on the hardwood in March.

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The Full Court Press: On the beautiful game, commercialization

By Noah Goldstein | March 7

When Coldplay took the stage at the halftime show of Super Bowl 50 in 2016, more than 115 million televisions were tuned in. For those who may not remember, the group kicked off with some of their own chart-toppers like “Yellow” and “Viva La Vida” before inviting guest appearances from Beyoncé and Bruno Mars in a tantalizing display of neon lighting and black leather jackets.

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Full Court Press: The deadly sins of NBA Twitter

By Noah Goldstein | February 28

Have you ever been centel’d? If you don’t know what that means, good for you; it means you’re not a chronically online basketball fan, unlike many people I talk to on a daily basis. If you do and if you’ve been victimized by the infamous account, that’s okay too … it happens to the best of us.

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‘No Other Land’ aims the lens at West Bank cruelty to sobering effect

By Noah Goldstein | February 20

In Masafer Yatta, a collection of Palestinian hamlets in the southern West Bank, life is synonymous with conflict. Every day, a suspicious, sunglassed man commands a bulldozer to destroy a family’s home, and the struggle can be heard. Mothers’ cries are met with soldiers’ orders. Foundations come crumbling down, only to be put back up inside of caves. Conflict is everywhere.

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Kendrick Lamar throws political haymakers on America’s most revered stage

By Noah Goldstein | February 18

Kendrick Lamar is no stranger to the bright lights, nor to the critics that accompany them. Nearly a decade before commanding the stage at the Super Bowl LIX halftime show in New Orleans, the Compton-born MC made his mark with another politically charged performance. At the 2015 BET Awards, fresh off the success of his third studio album “To Pimp a Butterfly,” Lamar dispatched his hit “Alright” while standing on a vandalized police car, an American flag flying in the background. On air the following day, Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera slammed Lamar’s performance, ultimately claiming that “hip-hop has done more damage to young African Americans than racism in recent years.” Two years later, Lamar sampled the clip on “DNA,” the second track on “DAMN.” which went on to top the U.S. charts and made him the first hip-hop artist to win a Pulitzer Prize.

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Full Court Press: What’s wrong with Mahomes?

By Noah Goldstein | February 14

Around 7:30 p.m. Sunday night, a collective cacophony of gasps, screams and sighs could be heard from the couches of most American households. Seconds before the rapture, the Kansas City Chiefs lined up for a third-and-16. The ball was snapped. Mahomes rolled right, looked back over the middle and fired it … right into the hands of Philadelphia Eagles rookie nickel cornerback Cooper DeJean.

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Full Court Press: Why the Rooney Rule is failing

By Noah Goldstein | January 24

The year is 2022. The month, February. Two days ago, the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals punched their tickets to Super Bowl LVI. Matt Eberflus has just been hired as the Bears head coach, and Nathaniel Hackett has been snatched up by Denver.

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