There was more than one champion on the day of Super Bowl XLVII. When I was in 8th grade‚ my family hosted a Super Bowl party. My family and our guests had a Super Bowl pool. Two dollars were collected from each guest and the winner‚ my friend Conor‚ left that night with $40. This enjoyable night sparked my interest in gambling on sports. A month or so later‚ my classmates and I created another betting pool for March Madness and the Stanley Cup playoffs. We placed our names in a hat and that determined
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updated 3:25 PM EST‚ Sun February 3‚ 2013 Make CNN Your Homepage * IN THE NEWS * Gun control * Obama’s Cabinet * Hillary Clinton * Turkey * Ed Koch * Alabama standoff * Courthouse shooting * Mali * Photos * Super Bowl Former Navy SEAL is killed at Texas gun range Chris Kyle‚ who wrote a best-seller about his days as a sniper‚ was one of two men killed Saturday afternoon near Fort Worth‚ authorities say. A suspect is in custody. FULL STORY * Victim appeared
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ANALYSIS OF IMPACT OF SUPER BOWL ON THE STOCK MARKET Abstract The hypothesis of this research was that when the original National Football Conference (NFC) team wins the game‚ the U.S. stock market increases and when the American Football Conference (AFC) (except Cleveland‚ Pittsburg and Indianapolis) wins the Super Bowl the U.S. stock market decreases. Correlation analysis was used to determine this hypothesis of Super Bowl winner predicts U.S. stock market. The Super Bowl indicator has been
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The Super Bowl is the main sporting and entertainment event of the year. Not only is it a program action packed with football‚ but‚ it is also a showcase for some of the most stellar television commercials produced annually. An advertisement in the Super Bowl costs several million dollars because the Super Bowl football game is often the most viewed television production globally. Therefore‚ companies work exceptionally hard to construct effective‚ passion-filled advertisements for this function
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What are Super PACs? Super PACs or Super Political Action Committees are “a type of independent political action committee which may raise unlimited sums of money from corporations‚ unions‚ and individuals but is not permitted to contribute to or coordinate directly with parties or candidates” –Oxford Dictionaries How did Super PACs come to be? Political Action Committees have been around for decades. However‚ prior to 2010‚ PACs were only allowed to accept up to $2‚500 per individual
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CBS Tells SodaStream to Revise Brand-Bashing Super Bowl Spot Commercial Attacked Bowl Sponsors Coke and Pepsi -- and Wasn’t Just PR Ploy Published: January 25‚ 2013 All was surprisingly quiet this year on the "They Censored My Super Bowl Ad" front ... until Friday‚ when Alex Bogusky tweeted that CBS had rejected the Super Bowl spot he was working on for SodaStream. Every year‚ the Super Bowl attracts some of the best and most high-priced advertising in the world. But it also lures a horde of publicity-seekers
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Development Theorist: Donald Super Biography: Donald Super was born on July 10‚ 1910 in Honolulu‚ Hawaii. His father was personnel specialist‚ his mother a writer. When his father was transferred from Hawaii to the YMCA national office in New York. Super and his older brother attended an elementary school in Upper Montclair‚ New Jersey. When he was 12‚ his family moved to Warsaw‚ Poland. Super’s father founded the YMCA there. During the first winter in Poland‚ Super lost his older brother
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The Super Project Introduction General Foods (GF) expects Super‚ a new powdered dessert‚ to capture 10% share of the total dessert market (2% coming from the erosion of Jell-O sales). The company’s Financial Analyst has issued a memo comparing three alternative techniques for project evaluations‚ illustrating the problems and limitations inherent in using ROFE (return on funds employed) and payback as evaluation methods. The disparate ROFE results obtained with these methods are due to differences
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SUPER BOWL ADVERTISING Jason Yarranton MKT 291 Baker College PP# 4 The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League “NFL” in the United States‚ is known for the high-profile advertisements that air during its television broadcast. The broadcast typically ranks very highly in the Nielsen ratings‚ reaching more than 90 million viewers. Prices for advertising space can typically cost millions of dollars; 30 seconds of advertising time during the 2010 telecast is expected
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In 84 Lumber’s Super Bowl commercial‚ a young girl and her mother journey through the wilderness of Mexico to come to America. The use of the advertisers visual and aural techniques within the commercial effectively creates a story that humanizes the current social issue of immigration in the United States. The commercial has created extreme controversy among its viewers‚ some even going as far as to protest the company. Although‚ many people who support immigration have publicly endorsed 84 Lumber
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