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Did you watch the Super Bowl?

We have the highlights.

We learn about the legacy of John Heisman.

Two skeleton athletes tell us about their journey to the Olympics.

And we discuss the use of artificial intelligence in public art.

NewsDepth is now.

The Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots went head to head over the weekend for Super Bowl LX.

Hello I'm Gabriel Kramer.

Thank you for joining us.

The Super Bowl is the NFL championship and the biggest football game of the entire season.

This year it took place in Santa Clara, California.

An estimated 68,000 people attended the big event, and more than 127 million people tuned in to watch.

Let's toss the ball over to news app intern Olivia for the highlights from the big game.

Seattle Seahawks are Super Bowl champions as they beat the New England Patriots 29 to 13, in Super Bowl LX.

The Seahawks defense dominated, allowing just 78 yards of offense through the first three quarters of the game.

The Patriots fell short in its fourth quarter comeback.

Quarterback Drake Maye threw for two touchdowns, but he also threw two interceptions and lost a fumble.

Seattle's defense sacked him six times.

Seahawks running back Kenneth Walker rushed for 135 yards, which awarded him the game's Most Valuable Player award.

He's the first running back to win Super Bowl MVP in 28 years.

This is Seattle's second Super Bowl win in franchise history.

Bad Bunny headlined the highly anticipated halftime show.

The Puerto Rican superstar made history as the first Spanish language artist to headline the halftime show.

The performance paid homage to Puerto Rican history and celebrated different aspects of Latino cultures.

Bad Bunny is one of the most popular recording artists across the globe, with an astounding 19.8 billion streams on Spotify last year alone.

He even won the Grammy Award for album of the year earlier this month.

And my Motherland, mi patria, Puerto Rico.

Seguimos aqui.

(We're still here.)

Ahora si!

(Alright, now!)

It was quite the game.

And I loved Bad Bunny's halftime show.

Thank you Olivia.

Last episode we asked you which team you were rooting for in the Super Bowl.

Let's check out the results of the poll.

Wow.

Okay, 61% of you said you won the snack game.

20% of you must be a static that your team won the Seattle Seahawks.

14% of you cheered on the Patriots, and about 5% of you said you just love watching sports.

Thank you all for voting.

As the Super Bowl showcases football at its highest level, it's worth remembering pioneers like John Heisman, whose ideas helped shape the modern game.

Born in Cleveland, Heisman came up with game changing ideas like throwing the ball forward and starting plays with a snap.

Anna has this week's Know Ohio about the man behind the trophy.

In the heart of 19th century Ohio, where football was still a young, unruly game, a boy was born who would help shape its future.

You might have heard of him before.

His name was John Heisman.

John Heisman was born in Cleveland on October 23rd, 1869.

His birth site is in the Ohio City neighborhood on Bridge Avenue, and can be identified by the historical marker that details his legacy From his early days, Heisman was a thinker and a planner, a student of both the classroom and the gridiron - that's another word for a football field.

He played football at Brown University and later at the University of Pennsylvania.

But it was off the field where he made his lasting mark.

John Heisman became a coach and not just any coach.

He became a visionary.

From Oberlin College, in Ohio to Auburn, Clemson and Georgia Tech.

Heisman introduced new ideas that revolutionized the game.

He is considered the father of the forward pass.

A forward pass is when you throw the ball toward the defensive team's goal line.

Heisman also innovated the snap.

A snap is when the center hands or throws the ball backward toward the quarterback to start the play.

But perhaps his most famous moment came in 1916, when his Georgia Tech team defeated Cumberland College by a staggering 222 to 0.

A game that still stands as the most lopsided victory in college football history.

After his death in 1936, his legacy lived on in bronze.

The Heisman Memorial Trophy is awarded annually to the most outstanding college football player.

It bears not just his name, but his spirit of innovation and excellence.

So I am not surprised that Ohio is the second state with the most Heisman Trophies, right after California.

John Heisman cared about excellence.

He demanded discipline, precision and integrity in a time when football was rough, raw and often dangerous.

Heisman impact on Ohio lives on through his early contributions to the game and the lasting legacy he left in shaping the future of football.

Thanks, Anna.

As Super Bowl excitement built last weekend.

Radio row buzzed, especially for the Seahawks radio crew.

Brynna Rogers, the broadcast engineer for Seattle Sports' Bump and Stacy Show, is making history as the first woman to ever engineer a super Bowl radio broadcast, working behind the scenes to make every place sound perfect.

A broadcast engineer is a technical professional responsible for designing, maintaining and operating the systems that transmit radio and television signals.

Drew Mikkelsen spoke to Brynna.

Now, Bump, the setting is different.

We are live from Radio Row in San Francisco, but the show's the same.

First impressions of Radio Row?

This is an interesting place.

The Super Bowl hype train is at full speed.

And you're getting offensive corners who understand.

And Radio Row is like Grand Central Station, where sports talk is clearly a man's world.

I can see a few little like jitters spots, but nothing crazy.

But not for the Seahawks.

I mix their mics, I EQ them, I add dynamics, I put some compression and limiting on them.

Brynna Rodgers is the broadcast engineer for the Bump and Stacy Show on Seattle Sports 710, engineering the play by play.

Cuts straight upfield, has a gap.

Across the 40.

Midfield 50.

She's been behind the scenes all year.

That's her behind Steve Raible during Rasheed Shaheen's playoff game T.D.

return.

You can see my feet in the background, like shuffling around.

I was like, oh, there's my feet.

Like moving around in excitement.

Brynna has been told she will be the first woman to ever engineer a radio broadcast for the big game.

It's a once in a lifetime opportunity.

So it's I have to stop every once in a while and kind of like, look around and, like, take it in and remind myself that this is really cool and that not many.

Not many people get to do this.

Looking around this week has reminded her she's a trailblazer - likes to think she's the first, but not the last.

It's a really hard field to get into for women.

And add on top of that the STEM aspect, and it's even harder.

And so it's like I got my foot in the door and now I'm going to hold the door open for everyone behind me.

Great story.

Thank you Drew.

And that brings us to our write-to-us for this week.

On our next episode, we'll have another Career Callout segment featuring, you guessed it, a broadcast engineer.

But we need your help coming up with interview questions.

So tell us, what do you want to know about the field of broadcast engineering?

Students can use our inbox form online or send us an email to newsdepth@ideastream.org to send in their questions.

These Career Callouts get me excited because I get to learn about all the opportunities you have for potential careers.

This week's A+ Award winners are a group from Perkins High School in Sandusky, who are really putting in the work to figure out what they want to be when they leave school.

Nearly 125 students at Perkins High School are enrolled in the Perkins Academy Experience.

The Academy requires the students to identify career pathways that they want to learn about, and design an experience that will allow them to gain experience in that job.

The students have to write reflections on what they've learned and literally go to work for a few hours a week in that job.

If you think that sounds cool, I can't wait to tell you that the students are in all kinds of different jobs, including real estate, medicine, teaching, heating, ventilation and air conditioning - also known as Hvac.

Some students even got to work with NASA researchers!

Mylee shared with us that she got to work with a sitting judge at the county courthouse.

He told us that in his experience there, he got to work with the prosecutor's office and even got to help some community members with planning their estates.

Milly told us that in her work with a railroad company, she got to go to Atlanta, Georgia for safety training and learn how to operate a forklift.

That is pretty cool.

Several students, Addi, Micha, and Haylee, told us that when they were working with nurses at a local medical facility, they were able to observe a few surgeries.

Some of the career partners told us that these experiences are great ways to learn about the employers in the community, and that several of them actually hired the Perkins students after graduation.

Vidhi told us that it's a great opportunity to make a first impression and to create a network of people who know about your strengths.

This week's A+ Award goes to the Perkins Pirates, who are taking some very important steps to figure out what they want to be after graduation.

Hey, maybe we'll work together someday.

Congratulations!

Speaking of careers, did you know animals can have careers too?

Some can help solve crimes, while others can be news reporters, like our cuteness correspondent.

Let's pass it over to NewsHound to learn more about animals with important jobs.

Hey, NewsHound, you look busy.

I won't bother you too much while you're working, but what did you find for us this week?

Awesome!

A story about Splash, an otter who is helping a search and rescue team with underwater missions.

To see Splash at work, head over to our website newsdepth.org or our YouTube channel.

Thanks as always for the great story, NewsHound.

Last week we learned about the Olympics, which began last Friday, the sixth.

We also learned a bit about cold weather athletes who are athletes who compete in weather based sports like skiing and ice skating.

And that inspired our next Career Callout segment.

Professional athletes work hard for what they do.

Being the best at a sport is hard work, and they train for years before competing.

To be a professional athlete, you must be very skilled in your chosen sport and there are professional athletes for any sport you can think of.

Olympic athletes or athletes training to be in the Olympics often go to special training camps, where they work every day to achieve their goal of competing for the Olympic team.

United States Olympians do not actually earn money just for competing.

Any money they earn from competing usually comes from private donors or from their own jobs.

Olympians can also be sponsored, meaning they would be featured in television commercials getting money in exchange for promoting a product.

A lot of Olympians work separate jobs, like at a coffee shop or as a dentist to make a living while living their dream.

Now let's meet two cold weather athletes.

We're sitting down with Gracie Otto and Kendall Wesenberg, two skeleton athletes.

Gracie is training for the Olympics in 2030, while Kendall competed in the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics.

Skeleton is a cold weather sport where the athletes ride a skeleton bobsled down a frozen track while laying face down.

The name skeleton comes from the shape of the sled, as it resembles a human ribcage.

Gracie and Kendall are here to answer some of your questions about their sport for this week's Career Callout.

Hi, my name is Gracie Otto and I am an athlete with team USA on the skeleton team.

I'm Kendall Wesenberg, I'm a team USA Olympic skeleton athlete.

Well, I'll start off with the first question.

Why did you choose your specific sport and what is your favorite part of what you do?

So I chose skeleton because I have always been a lover of niche sports.

Skeleton is kind of an underdog in the winter sport realm.

Skeleton is where you go face down headfirst kind of like a penguin, and you reach up to 80mph and you get a lot of G-forces on your entire body.

So it takes a lot of maneuvering throughout the track.

So when I moved back to Utah, I decided to go to a Discover Skeleton Day and see how it went.

And it went really well.

And they were like, you know what?

You should try this.

So I decided, why not?

I am ready to pursue something new in my life.

It was also asked, what keeps you going when things get tough?

And this is a great one because this sport has quite a bit of ups and downs and honestly, it is the thought of being on the world class stage.

How cold was it at the Olympics and how fun is it being in front of a crowd?

First part it was very cold in Korea.

Like the coldest I've ever been.

For some reason, the wind, when it blows there is painfully cold.

And unless you had, like, the thickest jacket on, it was pretty brutal.

So an hour speed suit.

It was definitely cold.

We wear speed suits, which are a thin latex layer, kind of like Frozone's super suit.

And so it is not ideal to be out in negative seven degree weather in your, in your super suit.

How fun is it being in front of a crowd?

I'm actually pretty shy.

So if you make me, like, public speak in front of a crowd, I'm not going to have that much fun.

But sliding in front of a crowd is really fun to me.

I just get to put my helmet on and kind of go into my own world and have people care about what you do is really, really cool.

It makes it track really exciting and makes putting a good run together really exciting.

So yeah, having a crowd, there's a lot of fun.

And it's so much fun being in front of the crowd.

I... it really fuels us and the energy that they bring really helps us go down the track.

How long do you train and how many days a week?

We train about six days a week and we have training on the ice and off the ice.

So, we need to work on the push, which is the sprint at the start with our sled.

And that takes a lot of gym time and a lot of track time.

So when we're lifting the weights, we're building the muscles.

When we're on the track, we are building our fast twitch muscles.

And so I personally am on the track and in the gym about 4 to 5 days of the week.

And then during the siding season, which is a small window of the year between late November and late March.

I'm on the ice about five days a week.

What do you have to do to get into the Olympics?

For skeleton, you need to be one of the best in the U.S.

you typically race your team for a spot at the beginning of the season, and then if you get one of the top 3 or 4 spots, you go race the rest of the world and you have to score the most points out of everybody.

So usually we qualify for two women, sometimes we qualify three, sometimes only one.

But that's based on being one of the best in the world.

Do you have any advice for anyone who would want to do sports?

Finding a sport that you love and doing it because you love it?

Because there's going to be a lot of times it's not very fun and you have to show up when you don't feel like it.

And then I think it's just remember that you're doing it because it's fun.

At the end of the day, that's supposed to be a fun thing.

And so trying to keep that fun, even through the moments that maybe are not so fun, are the days where you don't feel like going to training or those types of moments.

Follow your heart because a lot of people are going to have, outside opinions, and sometimes they're going to voice it to you.

And it's important that you listen to yourself and you listen to your own drive, really trust yourself and, bet on yourself because confidence is key.

Special thanks to Gracie Otto and Kendall Wesenberg for answering our questions about being a professional athlete.

With the Winter Olympic Games underway, stories like this, show what it takes to get there.

Figure skating coaches Julia Durkee and Paolo Borromeo trained skaters at a skating rink in California while pursuing their own Olympic journeys.

Borromeo competed in Olympic qualifiers, and Durkee prepare to coach internationally, sharing their passion for skating both on the ice and online.

Peyton Headlee takes us on the ice.

Ready and snap Most days, Oh, there we go.

You can find Julia Durkee Let's talk about the motion.

and Paolo Borromeo Okay.

One more.

on the ice.

One, two.

Three.

Four.

Chin up.

They're figure skating coaches at Skatetown, Roseville.

Hey, you got further around on that one.

Good job!

Good turns, Aisley.

Their expertise comes from years of training and competing themselves.

Before becoming a coach, I competed until I was like 21.

And then I became a show skater.

I was on my own Olympic journey this year, trying to qualify.

Borromeo is still competing, going as far as the Olympic qualifiers in October.

Hold... falling short of skating for the Philippines in Italy.

I had a great time and it was a good experience going for it.

And push, and push.

Durkee has her own Olympic journey.

I'm going to get to go watch the pairs skating.

She's going to Italy for the Winter Olympics, but she'll be coaching too.

I coach in person here at Skatetown, but I am so passionate about getting to coach virtually as well.

Durkee has a virtual skating club and a YouTube channel where she trains people all over the world online.

Cross step crossover.

The footwork of that was correct.

Yes!

Yay!

She'll host clinics and sessions to coach some of them in person while she's in Europe.

It's incredible getting to be part of people's skating journeys, because coaching is one of the best ways to share the sport they love.

I just really love the sport and I want to kind of help provide, like other kids, the same experiences and feelings that skating has provided for me.

You get to help develop their character.

You get to help develop their belief in yourself, and it's just a really beautiful thing to be part of that.

Thank you, Peyton Members of a curling club in Roseville, California, say the sport is far more strategic than it looks often describing it as chess on ice.

Curling, by the way, is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target.

They're excited to watch elite curlers compete, and hope the games inspire more people of all ages to try out the sport.

Chris Dudley takes a look.

Top house, if we get through there.

There's a lot of strategy involved Thank you sir.

when it comes to curling.

little light.

It'll come over.

It's going to guard.

Going to be a 2-3.

This curling club league at Skatetown Roseville knows that well.

Way more strategic about it looks.

It's also way more of an exercise than it looks.

There's about a million levels to it.

When you're watching these shots, everybody has something to do To describe the game in a few words.

Many people say shuffleboard on ice and we do not care for that.

It's not shuffleboard.

No.

We like chess on ice.

Which doesn't make it any less nerdy.

It's not easy.

It's not easy.

Definitely something to try.

It takes one minute to learn and then a lifetime to master.

The bottom line It's harder than it looks.

Which is why they're excited to watch the experts take to the ice in the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

That's tomorrow morning.

I'm looking forward to it.

I got everything set.

Oh, I'll be watching the Olympics whenever I'm out of work myself.

They hope it brings more interest to the sport they say just about everyone can pick up.

It's one of the sports.

One of the only Olympic sports where you can share the playing field with an Olympian.

We have an age range and probably somewhere 12 is our youngest curler and Larry there, is I think 75.

It really is a sport that can draw just about anybody who's interested in I think that looks pretty cool.

Thank you.

Chris.

Now let's get away from sports and talk about artificial intelligence and examine its impact in Northeast Ohio and beyond.

Artificial intelligence is making it easier and more cost effective to create pieces of art.

But is that really art, or does a human artist provide a connection that AI simply cannot?

In this week's Sketchbook, I speak with local artists as we discuss the future of AI in public displays of art.

Look at this I can type in.

Give me a painting of Steve Urkel in the style of Vincent van Gogh.

And in a few seconds.

There it is.

Glasses, suspenders, in front of a starry, swilry sky.

And not a dime went to Vincent van Gogh.

Or 90s comedic actor Jaleel White.

AI, it basically pulls from all over the internet.

And it takes artwork that has already been created.

Isaiah Williams work features a lot of bold colors and realistic faces.

He has several pieces of art around Cleveland, including these murals in Midtown.

What art is, and what it has always been, is something that you pulling from the soul of the of the people, like the pulse of the community.

Williams says he would feel betrayed if public art in Cleveland was not created by a person.

Jordan Wong embraces computer technology when creating.

So to say that there's no room for AI in art creation, I think, is too much of a rigid stance.

Wong has not used AI for his work yet.

He values human connection, but acknowledges AI could be a helpful tool.

In a way that it is more a means to support a creative process.

And people keep saying like, oh, it's just going to become more and more convincing.

It's like, yeah, maybe it'll become more and more realistic, but, you know, as far as human, I don't know.

I don't know.

Chi Wong, no relation to Jordan, is another Cleveland artist.

My opinion of AI art isn't the most great.

She painted this public piano in an Asia town Cleveland shopping center with humanized fruits and vegetables.

One of the arguments about AI art is that there is a lack of soul.

And I do think the artist, as in like a human person, an artist does give like the art a personal touch.

If all of the nonprofit organizations that I have worked with prior said, no more artist, only AI, I'll just be a little sad.

Definitely really sad.

The decision to put up AI generated art is really up to those who commission the work.

We definitely, you know, have been thinking about AI-generated art because it's coming up all over.

LAND Studio is an art organization that's been curating public art in Cleveland for more than three decades.

As long as it's part of a a thoughtful process that still puts the artist as the lead creative and really centers community.

I think there could be a place for it.

As long as it does not replace the artist, she says.

Being efficient isn't the only important part about public art.

It's about the culture of the community.

I really think that we love our local artists.

I think we should continue to invest in them and continue to, you know, showcase their talent in more and more ways.

There are the artists, there are the curators, and then there's the consumers.

In this case, Cleveland.

Cleveland has a wonderful art community.

And like the people, it really supports the art.

Would our city be one that kind of just welcomes AI art large scale on on our buildings and, you know, public spaces?

I would hope not.

And if that were the case, then it's our job as artists to to show them - No, there's something even better.

It's our job as artists to continue just to make dope unique, original and creative work that keeps art alive.

Special thanks to Ygal Kaufman for helping me produce that Sketchbook.

Now we want to know what you think.

Should AI be used to create public art?

Jump over to our poll page to vote.

You can choose between.

No way.

We need artists.

Maybe it depends on how it's used.

Or yes, it is quick and easy.

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