Halftime

Halftime is the Voice’s sports and leisure blog.

Halftime Leisure

In Defense of TikTok

I am home for the summer for the first time since high school and it is weird. My family moved from Arizona to Illinois three weeks before I started at... Read more

By September 20, 2019

Halftime Sports

Probing the Origins of Recent College Head Coaching Hires: A Deep Dive from 2010-16

In college athletics, the head coach is the program, for better and for worse. Professional teams not only have owners, general managers, and generally larger support staffs, but they also... Read more

By September 18, 2019

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The Weekly List: We’re THRIVING!

It’s a Friday, 7:37 AM, and you frantically wake up realizing that you turned off your 7 AM alarm in your sleep and that you have about fifteen minutes to... Read more

By September 17, 2019

Halftime Sports

Potential Names for the Seattle NHL Team

After years of discussion and consideration, hockey is coming to Seattle. As with any new franchise, the name of the future team has been fiercely debated since the announcement that... Read more

By September 16, 2019

Halftime Leisure

D23 and the Dark Side of Disney’s Cultural Dominance

On the weekend of August 23, thousands of Disney fans and reporters flocked to Anaheim, California for D23, Disney’s biannual exposition of all the things it plans to do in... Read more

By September 16, 2019

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Every Vampire Weekend Song Ever, Ranked

Ever since the release of Father of the Bride (2019), it seems like Vampire Weekend is all anyone can talk about. Personally, I had only heard “A-Punk” prior to their... Read more

By September 13, 2019

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Cooking with Glass in Blown Away

Cooking competitions like Chopped, Cupcake Wars, and Iron Chef (2002) have been relatively popular for many years. However, the cult-like following that emerged after The Great British Bake Off’s arrival... Read more

By September 13, 2019

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Trailer Takes: The Irishman, Joker, and Rambo: Last Blood

The Irishman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_2RjQwQGV0 Inès: The first thing that strikes me about this trailer is the list of names: Martin Scorsese, Robert de Niro, Al Pacino, and Anna Paquin. There are... Read more

By , and September 12, 2019

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Billie Eilish Tackles Climate Change in “all the good girls go to hell” Music Video

This past Wednesday, Billie Eilish dropped her most recent music video for “all the good girls go to hell”, a song from her 2019 album When We All Fall Asleep,... Read more

By September 12, 2019

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Have We Seen the End of the Cardi B v. Nicki Minaj Beef?

Burr vs. Hamilton. Stalin vs. Trotsky. Cardi vs. Nicki. The battle between two legendary New York rappers has seen its latest—and perhaps final—twist.  To the shock of her fans and... Read more

By September 11, 2019

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The Weekly List: Explore the Cosmos

Some good jams from around the world, a sampling by me.  1. “Drôle de Question” by Roméo Elvis With a name like that, Belgian artist Roméo Elvis couldn’t be anything... Read more

By September 10, 2019

Halftime Sports

DeMarcus Cousins is straight up not having a good time

Before moving to the Pelicans, life was going smoothly for DeMarcus Cousins. He had been steadily improving from his rookie year on the Sacramento Kings, eventually averaging 27.8 points per... Read more

By September 9, 2019

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Summer Time : Dead & Company

Summer Time is a collection of stories about Voice staffers’ experiences over summer break. I yawned at the start of “Help On The Way” as Dead & Company kicked off... Read more

By September 9, 2019

Halftime Leisure

Summer Time: Tangents

Summer Time is a collection of stories about Voice staffers’ experiences over summer break. There’s nothing on the planet more consistent than my high school groups’ ability to talk about... Read more

By September 8, 2019

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Freshly Baked Takes On The Great British Baking Show

Alas, it is that time again. No not apple picking season or the winter holiday, it is Great British Baking Show season. This season does not fail to bring all... Read more

By September 8, 2019

Halftime Sports

Is There an End in Sight for Alabama and Clemson’s Duopoly on College Football?

Two titans run college football. They don’t make the rules or steal every headline and haven’t fundamentally changed the way the game is played, but when it comes time to... Read more

By September 7, 2019

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Cooking Up Predictions for the Great British Baking Show

In a season premiere that began with a truly absurd sequence featuring the judges and hosts dressed as characters from the Wizard of Oz (1939) (including Paul Hollywood aptly costumed... Read more

By September 6, 2019

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Billie Eilish and Teenhood

Olivia Gatwood’s “When I Say That We Are All Teen Girls” is one of my most favorite poems of all time. If you do not know me, you might not... Read more

By September 5, 2019

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The Weekly List: Songs From the Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Movie of All Time: Almost Famous

I was going to write about the greatest songs from great scenes in movies. However, there are lots of movies circulating about in existence…like more than I can count. Given... Read more

By September 4, 2019

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Trailer Takes: Cats

Cats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtSd844cI7U Katie: Hi, God. It’s me, Katie. I have a few questions, but I guess my first one is what in the fresh hell is this? Some of the... Read more

By , and September 1, 2019