His Pollice verso, in which a gladiator stands astride a fallen foe and looks up to the Colosseum’s bleachers for the crowd’s verdict, was a tremendous hit back in 1874, and called forth considerable scholarly debate on whether the thumbs up and down he painted amidst the crowd wer...
We sit in the lower bleachers, the entire circle of green in front of us. An Australian player muscles a ball toward the boundary. A ball that hits or bounces over the boundary at the edge of the field is four runs; a ball that crosses it on the fly is six. Some Aussie hits are ...
It’s the pain of getting my four-year-old to hockey early on a Saturday morning, only to find myself sitting solo, in silence, with nowhere I’d rather be than on those chilly bleachers, hugging my thermos of caffeine while watching with fireworks of pride as my daughter’s tiny four...
but a chorus of loud cheers from the bleachers helps relieve the blow. Down 5-3 and only one out from defeat, O’Brien cranks a two-run homer over the centerfield wall into the broadcast booth that whistles so close to Rose’s head he has...
My name just got called for what award? As my brain processed what I just achieved, my legs started to move on their own. I proceeded to squeeze my way to the front to receive my certificate. While my picture was being taken, I stood there in disbelief looking back at the bleachers ...
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Although he's an outspoken critic of Indiana's new Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Jack Antonoff says he has no desire to boycott the state and bow out of Bleachers' Indianapolis performance on Saturday.
The digital clock above the door in Pat Riley's presidential suite counts down the minutes to tip-off. The room is in a back hallway underneath the arena, a few feet from the secret path beneath the bleachers that he takes to his seat. I sit on the couch and read a laminated prayer...
I ran up bleachers. I jumped onto boxes. I ran figure eights. I jumped rope. I did high knees. I sprinted. I’m sorry to report that I never did gain a huge vertical and lay down a vicious dunk on my slack-jawed classmates, hanging on the rim for emphasis as I said, “Sure ...
Ha. Well, it’s funny. They are watching from the bleachers, nay, across the street inside a house peering out behind the curtains, mostly thinking it’s weird and scared that we’ve changed and become super conservative. After over 10 years of friendship, it must feel odd to text “Br...