Sunday’s Super Bowl, where the Kansas City Chiefs will face the San Francisco 49ers, will mean different things to many people, writes Amy Bass, sports historian and Swiftie. She argues that the big game will bring Chapter 1 of Taylor Swift’s football era to an end. What comes next?
Mary Lou Retton defined ‘clutch’ in 1984, writes Amy Bass, not only inspiring generations of gymnasts who followed, building an American dynasty in the process, but also empowering those who simply idolized her as someone who was petite and sparkly but also strong as hell.
Mary Lou Retton defined ‘clutch’ in 1984, writes Amy Bass, not only inspiring generations of gymnasts who followed, building an American dynasty in the process, but also empowering those who simply idolized her as someone who was petite and sparkly but also strong as hell.
The span of Simone Biles’ career, the five elements named for her, enable us to see what human beings can be capable of when they do things on their own terms half-point deductions be damned, writes Amy Bass after Biles soared at the world championships in Antwerp, Belgium.