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Pontiac Daily Leader IOWA CITY, Iowa — With stadiums, arenas and other sports venues filled with cardboard cutouts of fans and prerecorded crowd noise due to COVID-19, television viewership has never been so important in keeping current fans engaged as well as luring in new fans. During a first-time practicum course in fall 2020, 30 Iowa students, a group that included Hannah Conlisk of Chenoa, worked with executives from NASCAR and Fox Sports to develop promotional campaigns to increase awareness, engagement and viewership of the sport's 2021 opener, the Daytona 500. At the end of the seme...

Jillian Pikora The Penn State THON dance marathon concluded Sunday in Pennsylvania.Typically thousands of dancers and volunteers gather at Penn State's Bryce Jordan Center, where they stay on their feet for 46 hours straight to raise money for pediatric cancer research.Those dancers participated from their own homes this year. Last year, students were able to raise more than $11.5 million for the Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State Children’s Hospital.This year's total was $10,638,078.62This is a less than last year's total, but given the changes due to the pandemic it is sti...

Dance Marathon perseveres beyond limits February 21, 2021 UGA students raise more than $1.4 million for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Nearly 2,500 students representing more than 50 student organizations gathered virtually on Zoom along with a select few student leaders in person in Tate Student Center Grand Hall Sunday morning to celebrate raising $1,427,386.91 for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. In the midst of fundraising challenges for many philanthropies because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this is an expectation-shattering total for UGA Miracle, the University of Georgia’s large...

In the second video of the 2021 THON Captain series, captains discuss how the coronavirus pandemic affected THON events and the 46-hour dance marathon.

Until no child has AIDS.