Events and Attractions

The ABS challenge system -- set to come to MLB for the first time in 2026 -- “won’t be used in this spring’s World Baseball Classic,” but the “pitch clock will be part of the WBC for the first time this year,” according to Jayson Stark of THE ATHLETIC. Although ABS technology is “already installed i...

Green Day “played it uncharacteristically safe” during its Super Bowl LX pregame performance, “leaving out the politically charged messages it has been voicing,” according to Irshad & Vaziri of the S.F. CHRONICLE. Situated on the edge of the field at Levi’s Stadium “atop a stage framed by two gi...

Foxborough’s frustration over a lack of funding for hosting FIFA World Cup games at Gillette Stadium this summer “grew Friday despite a meeting with state officials,” according to Stephen Peterson of the Attleboro SUN CHRONICLE. Foxborough town manager Paige Duncan, following a meeting involving her...

The Super Bowl commercials are “always a snapshot in time,” and this year’s showed “we’re collectively caught between gazing toward a hopeful yet uncertain future while pining for the past,” according to Tim Nudd of AD AGE. Tech, and especially AI, “was everywhere.” Anthropic delivered one of the ni...

The Super Bowl has “long been a proving ground for new technologies seeking mass legitimacy” and this year, generative AI “took the field in force,” according to Trishla Ostwal of ADWEEK. According to iSpot, 23% of Super Bowl commercials -- “15 out of the 66 ads -- featured AI.” This includes “giant...

The Bay Area “showed off” over the past week when hosting Super Bowl LX festivities, and the region’s performance was “title-worthy,” according to Dieter Kurtenbach of the San Jose MERCURY NEWS. The logistics “clicked” and the parties “hummed at the top of the peninsula and the bottom of the Bay.” K...

Bad Bunny became the first artist to perform the Super Bowl halftime show primarily in Spanish, and the performance was a “fierce act of resistance, and a triumph on many levels,” according to Andrew Chow of TIME. It was an “exuberant exercise in spectacle, stagecraft, choreography and camera work; ...

Celebrities from the sports and entertainment worlds were out for the Super Bowl: Rapper Jay-Z with daughters Blue Ivy and Rumi Carter, actor Chris Pratt, singer Jon Bon Jovi, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Kevin Costner, rapper Travis Scott, Basketball HOFer Carmelo Anthony, former tennis star Roger Federer, ...

Bad Bunny “made history” Sunday night as the first Latin artist to “deliver a Super Bowl halftime performance primarily in Spanish -- and he went all out.” The singer “staged an upbeat blowout for the books, complete with dancers, tons of Puerto Rican pride, and even a Lady Gaga guest appearance” (R...

The Seahawks “authored one of the most dominant defensive performances in Super Bowl history” Sunday night, throttling the Patriots, 29-13, at Levi’s Stadium to win their second title in franchise history. The Seahawks “stamped themselves as an undeniable juggernaut, an all-time powerhouse by advanc...