Reading roundup: Super Bowl, Groundhog Day, Libertine on the move

Coffee and newspaper for reading roundup post

STILL reeling from those crazy final minutes of the 2015 Super Bowl!

Here’s a roundup of 10 or so links to get you started this Monday:

  • With a little more than two minutes left, Tom Brady’s clutch play rallied the New England Patriots past the Seattle Seahawks 28-24 Sunday in Super Bowl XLIX. (IndyStar) | The Seahawks’ Jermaine Kearse made a ridiculous catch near the end zone (Bleacher Report) … that ultimately didn’t matter, because the Seahawks decided to pass the ball rather than give it to Marshawn Lynch (NBC Sports), allowing the Pats’ Malcolm Butler to make a dramatic pick at the goal line to seal their win. (Yahoo Sports) | And then a massive brawl broke out. (For The Win) Sigh.
  • In non-game game action: The Super Bowl ads were a total sob-fest this year. (USA Today) | I want a huge golden lion like the one Katy Perry was riding for the halftime show. (For The Win) | Anyone who was on Twitter and not following Pat McAfee’s Super Bowl tweets was doing it wrong. (@PatMcAfee)

  • Punxsutawney Phil is set to give us his forecast this Groundhog Day. Will it be any less of a bust than the prediction of our weekend winter storm? (Groundhog.org) | AMC is airing “Groundhog Day” four times today. (AMCtv.com)
  • Looking forward to this! The relocated Libertine Liquor Bar is set to open this week in my area of Mass Ave.  (IndyStar)
  • Is Indiana’s vaccination rate high enough to keep out measles? (IndyStar)
  • Indiana’s first Bitcoin ATM recently debuted at an Irvington e-cigarette emporium. (IBJ)
  • Bill Polian was the only Indianapolis Colts candidate elected to the Hall of Fame. (IndyStar) | Marvin Harrison “got screwed.” (Gregg Doyel)
  • Touching story from the weekend: An Indianapolis woman gives abandoned babies dignity in death. (IndyStar)
  • Bobby Brown asked for privacy after his 21-year-old daughter with Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina, was found unresponsive in a bathtub. (USA Today)
  • Still can’t believe this rumor turned out to be true: Bruce Jenner is transitioning to a woman. He’s filming a reality series about it. Of course. (TMZ and People)

BONUS: I can’t not include a clip from “Groundhog Day.”

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Author: Cori

Cori Faklaris (aka "HeyCori") is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Software and Information Systems, College of Computing. Faklaris received her PhD in human-computer interaction in 2022 from Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, School of Computer Science, in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. She also is a social media expert and longtime journalist, and/or "Doer of Things No One Else Wants to Do."

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