Mark Makela

Oct 4, 2024 | nytimes.com | John Branch |Mark Makela

The black sky emptied as about 50,000 rain-soaked University of Colorado football fans exhaled in improbable joy at Folsom Field. This was after the Hail Mary pass caught as time expired, after the game-clinching fumble that squirted out of the end zone in overtime. Students poured onto the field. In the dry cocoon of the press box, cynicism washed away. I laughed. That's when I came closest to answering the question that I had come to ask:What is the point of college football these days?

Aug 15, 2024 | azdailysun.com | Mark Makela

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May 15, 2024 | buffalonews.com | Mark Makela

FILE — A debate watch party hosted by the Trump campaign Lititz, Pa., Sept. 29, 2020. Neither of the two debates former President Donald Trump and President Biden have agreed to involve the Commission on Presidential Debates, the organization that has typically hosted the events. (Mark Makela/The New York Times)

Mar 25, 2024 | dailyitem.com | Mark Makela

Lauren Vernot, 7, holds a commemorative program for former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, as the hearse and Biden family arrive for a mass of Christian burial at St. Anthony of Padua Church on June 6, 2015, in Wilmington, Delaware. (Mark Makela/Getty Images/TNS)

Mar 2, 2024 | buffalonews.com | Mark Makela

FILE — A debate watch party hosted by the Trump campaign Lititz, Pa., Sept. 29, 2020. Trump has the largest national lead in a presidential poll since first running for president in 2015, per a New York Times/Siena College poll released on March 2, 2024. (Mark Makela/The New York Times)