Where did you grow up? Who was your team? What jersey did you get for your seventh birthday when being an athlete was the only job you ever wanted?
"Flappy Bird” is dead. The simplistic app that dominated the cultural zeitgeist this past week seems to have perished more quickly than most of my pitiful attempts at its egregiously difficult gameplay. Countless articles were published chronicling the insightful commentary “Flappy Bird’s” success provided for an industry that generally succeeds on stagnation.
Marcus Smart is not a happy camper. His Oklahoma State team has pulled “a Wisconsin” by losing five of their last six games and now, he’s in some very hot water over his actions at Texas Tech.
What happens when you put three, four or 12 famous-in-their-own-right musicians together and tell them to write an album or go on tour? Decidedly mixed results.
January has come and gone. Its passing marks the end of yet another season of the show we love to hate: “American Horror Story.” Let me preface this by admitting I was once a fan of its hijinks. The first season had me teetering on obsession. While other, more proactive students focused on expanding their intelligence, I was engrossed in the fictional world of haunted houses, gruesome murders and unrelenting mystery. Sure, I recognized its flair for the ridiculous—at times it resembled a trip through the halls of a bad haunted house, simultaneously inducing both frights and laughter. But I didn’t care—it was wildly entertaining.
It doesn’t get much better than this past weekend if you’re a Badger fan.
Like he is quite accustomed to, David Beckham entered with fans chanting his name to the stage that was overlooking the calm water, still trees and an 80-degree Miami morning.
Most of the time people are only exposed to the most high profile student produced video games. “Portal” started out as a tiny project called “Narbacular Drop,” created by several college students out in Washington. Valve Software scooped them up and it went on to become one of last generation’s breakout success stories. Carnegie Mellon’s perspective-bending tech demo the other week is another example of a student designed game well deserving of all the publicity it’s received.
Step aside Big Ten, the Big 12 is the best conference in college basketball
The 1980s were a decade that ushered in an era of mostly horrible music. A quick Bing search for the best ‘80s songs nets you a list filled with Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Duran Duran and The Bangles.
A week ago, shocking news broke that football players from Northwestern University were attempting to unionize with the National College Players Association (NCPA).
A coach in my Under-10 soccer days once gave me some valuable advice: “The goalie is an obstacle, not a target.”
So I had this whole idea about how I was going to kick off my new weekly column, but as I sat watching the latest season of “Girls” I dramatically crumpled up my notes and aimed for the trash can (I missed)—it was that good.
So, the Oscar nominations are out, and a lot of people are happy, a lot are angry, and a lot of people really can’t make themselves care. Personally, I had cognitively understood “they’re kind of silly and unnecessary and don’t mean anything,” but it took “Inside Llewyn Davis” getting almost entirely passed over this year for me to really feel it.
Transcending the bounds of one individual sport, a universal tug-of-war exists in the sporting world: Do we want the best team to win the championship, or do we want the thrilling storyline of an underdog taking down the season's top teams?
How does a band from a city that produces such diverse, successful indie artists keep from falling to the wayside? Hospitality fires back with their sophomore LP Trouble—the shedding of old skin for a tougher, more intriguing one. The Brooklyn trio led by Amber Papini has left its Ivy League college-pop sound behind and come back with an album that becomes an amalgamation of indie rock subgenres. They steer away from the sophomore slump by creating a unique, challenging album that showcases their ability to be something different and look good while doing it.
Creating a video game is hard. Rarely has a more obvious statement been proclaimed, but I thought I may as well reiterate the fact. I’ve never tried making a game before this past weekend when I was fortunate enough to compete in the Global Game Jam.
Stanislas Wawrinka’s run through this year’s Australian Open was impressive and included a dramatic, five-set win over defending champion Novak Djokovic. Wawrinka fought through heat, and a stacked slate of opponents in order to win the tournament. His final win even came against world No. 1, Rafael Nadal.
To continue my quasi-tradition of starting each semester off with a column about my beloved jam bands, welcome back to “spring” 2014.
Haven’t been watching college basketball all year? Want to get back into it before March Madness comes around? Here’s where the season stands so far and its big stories.
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