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Why You Need to Cheer for Your Kids
Children need direction and discipline for optimal development, but Mike Berry believes encouragement is a parent’s most important job. ___ When we welcomed our first daughter into the world I made a...
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Tech Review: Dyson AM09 Fan Heater
Alex Yarde reviews the Dyson AM09 Fan Heater and was blown away! (see what I did there?) ___ Dyson AM09 Fan Heater bills itself as both a cool fan and space heater that will keep you cool in summer...
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Fans of All Ages Showed up for Wizard World Sacramento
Jay Snook attended this year’s Wizard World in Sacramento, and it was one for the record books This years’s Wizard World Comic Con has come and gone in Sacramento, and man was there so much to see and...
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How Professional Wrestling Taught Me To Be A Better Man
Yeah, it’s staged, but Pro Wrestling taught me plenty of valuable life lessons. — I have been a pro wrestling fan for as long I can remember. My Uncle David and my Uncle Jude introduced me to...
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Finding Our Version of Perfect in the Cheap Seats
Embed from Getty Images As a parent, you learn what real perfection actually looks like. And it’s not perfect. — My son walked through the tunnel connecting the upper concourse and the actual arena...
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What Losing Prince Means to Music
Embed from Getty Images A musical legend is gone, but the music industry may just be letting out a sigh of relief. — The news that legendary singer/songwriter Prince died Thursday April 21st in his...
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Fat Shaming has no Place on the Baseball Field
Embed from Getty Images Sports culture‘s toxic masculinity has real-life impact not only on the athletes that play, but the young fans who are watching from home. ___ By Britini de la Cretaz For...
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When Athletes go Against the Grain
Embed from Getty Images When a person is said to be going against the grain, he is doing the exact opposite of what he normally does. He is not doing what is expected of him. When Colin Kaepernick...
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In Defense of the Adult Wrestling Fan
Embed from Getty Images When we think of marginalized groups, we don’t envision adult wrestling fans. But, we should. Not because they’re the most vulnerable of populations, but because they’re among...
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Fans Don’t Like ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi.’ I’m a Fan – Here’s Why It’s Good
Embed from Getty Images (Spoilers follow.) As of Dec. 18 at 9:15 p.m. MST, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” is at 93 percent on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer, but only 56 percent for the audience score....
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Face Each Other
It All Begins with Self Everybody saw it. The smirking young boy in a maga hat facing off with a Native American man in Washington, D.C. The image went viral. The hashtags and stories proliferated....
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Just Like Me
I was fifteen and had just started an internship at PM Magazine, Providence’s evening half-hour local interest show. I’d been watching PM Magazine with my family since its inception a few years earlier...
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The NBA is Tightening Up Is Rules Regarding Fan Conduct. And That’s a Good...
Last week the NBA announced that it is enacting stricter “zero-tolerance” rules for abusive fan behavior towards its players. The changes were spurred by data that indicated that fan behavior was...
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Violent Sports
— How violent is sport in your culture? The sport? The fans? The language? You are an athlete, successful at both boxing and field sports. A player whom you struck in competition has been diagnosed...
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What to Say, When to Say It—Part 2
A Funny Thing Happened… When public figures step out of character, we pay attention. This is especially true when comedians stop trying to make us laugh, and instead try to make us listen. This was...
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Frame, Hold, Shoot
Outsourced Memes usually don’t take my breath away. They are, in fact, meant to disrupt our psychology for a split second. Their content meant to either re-enforce or shatter a belief. I usually ignore...
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Media Content Doesn’t Win. Optimized Content Wins.
When it comes to social sharing, the 5:3:2 rule is a ratio to follow for a well-rounded social strategy that will keep your fan-based community-engaged and help you build more followers for your...
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Your True Fans — Focus on Them Instead of Getting ‘More Traffic’
Some marketing experts want you to focus on “list-building” or getting lots of “traffic”. It can make us start to do things that are inauthentic. For example, using “lead magnets” to grow an email...
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Toxic Fandom: What Is It?
In recent years, journalists, news organizations, and others have used the term “toxic fandom” to describe admirers of popular culture who act in ways that are seen as inappropriate and unpleasant....
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When ‘The Boss’ Is Your Therapist
By Rutgers University Press, Harvard Gazette Excerpted from “Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen’s Women Fans” by Lorraine Mangione, professor of clinical psychology at Antioch...
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