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Are You Ready for Some Football?

Most Angelenos Are, No Matter What "They" Say

January 31, 2016: I can see it now. Super Bowl L. Yep, the big game is turning the big 5-oh. Farmers Field in the heart of Los Angeles is a madhouse. Brett Favre, who came out of retirement in 2012 and 2014, leads the Green Bay Packers out of the tunnel. Mayor Johnson is here, wearing his old Lakers jersey over his suit. Governor Shriver is here, without her ex-husband or any of his many kids. President is here sporting a cheesehead. Justin Timberlake, who turns 35 today, will sing …

by Mike Downey |

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Washington-Lee High School (Arlington, Va.)

Sweating through the Guilt

by Andrés Martinez |

I couldn’t resist. I tried, I really did. I stayed away for more than a year, but in the end I succumbed. I pledged in The Washington Post that I …

Rust as Gold Dust

Why the NFL Cherishes Bygone Cities

by Andrés Martinez |

In a tribute to the National Football League’s nostalgia-tinged, size-doesn’t-matter, redistributive genius, Super Bowl XLV will pit the nation’s 152nd largest metropolitan area against its 22nd largest. Green Bay defeated …


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