Super Bowl

President Trump takes petulance to a new level.

Pop star Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl halftime song-and-dance routine got, umm, mixed reviews. The Scrapbook, though, watched the performance with rapt attention, and we have to say that to our eyes and ears Timberlake was simply stunning.

This week on the TMQ Podcast, Gregg Easterbrook breaks down the Super Bowl with Philly Superfan special guest Jonathan V. Last. In case you missed last week's column, do read it here.

On this week’s episode, JVL continues to bask in the glow of a Super Bowl victory. But how about those Super Bowl ads? What to make of Solo? Your cohosts list their favorites. Sonny reviews Hostiles. Plus a hostile review by “Gene”!

Will Super Bowl 52 be the event that changes how the football establishment thinks? About going for it on fourth down, of course.

So here we are.

This week on the TMQ podcast, Gregg Easterbrook and Stephen F. Hayes preview the Super Bowl and discuss Gregg's most recent column. Who will win the Non-QB, Non-RB MVP? Should the Eagles go for it on fourth down?

Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Chris Long is the first Super Bowl athlete this year to say he won't visit the White House if his team becomes champions. Like the Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry—the face of basketball’s signature franchise, who said after the NBA Finals last year, “I don’t…

On this latest episode of the Substandard, we talk about the impending Disney-Fox merger. Will the X-Men join forces with the Avengers? Will there finally be a definitive Fantastic Four? We also veer into a discussion of Lord of the Rings, JVL’s pregame jitters, Las Vegas, and the Breakfast Sampler…

Here’s an embarrassing admission from a longtime Patriots football fan: My childhood team was the Miami Dolphins.

You may not believe this, but in the United States there are more weeks without football than with it. How can that be!

The Philadelphia Eagles are headed to the Super Bowl, and while the region is rejoicing, the city’s tourism board is no doubt cringing at antics of the legendary local fans, which are best summed up by the recent headline in the New York Daily News: “Another Eagles fan arrested for punching police…

Thousands of people work on National Football League coaching staffs and in front offices. Millions of Americans pretend to do these roles in fantasy leagues, or simply fantasize about running an NFL team. Everyone wonders: What is the secret to NFL success?

Last week, President Donald Trump picked a fight with the NFL, arguing that players like Colin Kaepernick who take a knee during the national anthem should be fired. As he has done so many times before, the president kicked up a hornet’s nest of controversy. Maybe the commotion will work to his…

Last week, President Donald Trump picked a fight with the NFL, arguing that players like Colin Kaepernick who take a knee during the national anthem should be fired. As he has done so many times before, the president kicked up a hornet’s nest of controversy. Maybe the commotion will work to his…

Anheuser-Busch's beer ad for the 2017 Super Bowl looks more like a protest film against President Trump's immigration policies than an actual pitch for brew. The 1-minute commercial tells the tale of the German-born Adolphus Busch, co-founder of the St. Louis-based suds empire, as he survives…

Editor at large William Kristol's weekly Kristol Clear podcast, where Bill debates whether history demands a Pats win in the first Super Bowl of the Trump Era; Why Democrats are trapped between their dyspeptic base and distrustful voters; And Gorsuch proves NeverTrumpers wrong.

In this week's edition of the Kristol Clear newsletter, editor at large William Kristol has announced another contest for readers with the potential for great prizes! (And be sure to sign up for Kristol Clear and our other great newsletters.)

In post-game remarks, Patriots owner Bob Kraft compared his team overcoming the scandal known as deflategate to when the Patriots won the first Super Bowl after 9/11:

Way back when, a Dallas Cowboys running back named Duane Thomas was asked, in the days leading up to the Super Bowl, what it was like to play in the “ultimate game.”

The New England Patriots are my guilty sports pleasure.

President Obama will give a Super Bowl Sunday interview to a host of NBC's Today Show, Savannah Guthrie. The news tucked away in a Los Angeles Times profile of the host.

So did the New England Patriots actually cheat last Sunday when they beat the Indianapolis Colts in a 45-7 laugher? Well, the game was certainly important.  Winning meant another trip to the Super Bowl for the Patriots.  And, then, the Patriots have a history. Back in 2007 the team was busted by…

Bill O'Reilly will interview President Obama before the Super Bowl, Mediaite reports.

In a press release, CBS claims that 108.41 million Americans tuned in for last night's Super Bowl:

Last week, in a blog post titled, "Super Bowl City Leads on Energy Efficient Forefront," the Energy Department touted the Superdome's lights. The Superdome, in New Orleans, is hosting tonight's Super Bowl, where a power outage stopped play for more than half an hour.

A power outage disrupted play at the Super Bowl in New Orleans tonight. Here's video:

The Super Bowl is, as everyone knows, the biggest thing in sports.  And television.  Which are, increasingly, indistinguishable.  The game is routinely the highest rated program of the year.  Any year.  In fact, three of the four most highly rated shows of all time are Super Bowls.  And those would…

Here's one of the commercials played during last night's Super Bowl, from the Center for Union Facts:

Can the Giants front-four get to Brady and—as the fastidious football locution puts it—disrupt his timing? That is to say...pound him into wet, pink pulp.