Smokey
(mascot)
Smokey is the mascot of the University of Tennessee sports teams.
These teams, named "The Volunteers" and nicknamed "the Vols", use both
a live and a costumed version of Smokey. There is a Bluetick Coonhound
mascot who leads the Vols onto the field for football games. Starting
with the 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Smokey XI leads the
charge. The Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity cares for the hound on the
University of Tennessee campus. There is also a costumed mascot that
appears at every Vols game and has won several mascot championships.
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See also
- List of Indivudual Dogs
List of
Individual Dogs
The following is a list of individual dogs.
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Faithful dogs
- Hachikō, an Akita who became a symbol of loyalty in Japan, is now honored by a statue in Tokyo. Hachikō is famous for his loyalty to his long-dead owner Hidesaburō Ueno, by returning to the train station and waiting for his return, every day for the next nine years during the time the train was scheduled to arrive.
- Kostya, in the mid-1990s in Togliatti, Russia – a family died in a car crash during the summer of 1995, leaving their dog as the only survivor. The German Shepherd, named Constantine aka Kostya or Faithful Kostya by the locals, kept coming to the same spot for the next seven years braving freezing winters and hot summers. Loyalty – a bronze statue honoring the dog's loyalty was placed on that spot in 2003 by the city authorities.
Film
- Ace the Wonder Dog, appeared in numerous films and serials in the 1930s and 1940s.
- Blair, a Collie, the first dog screen star, starring in Rescued by Rover in 1905.
- Buddy, a Golden Retriever, starred in the 1997 film Air Bud but died from cancer a year later.
Air Bud
Air Bud is a 1997 sports comedy-drama film directed by Charles Martin Smith. An international co-production of the United States and Canada, the film stars Kevin Zegers as a young boy who befriends a runaway Golden Retriever (portrayed by Buddy) with a unique ability to play basketball.
Comedy
Drama
Comedy drama (also known by the portmanteau dramedy) is a hybrid genre
of works that combine elements of comedy and drama. In film, as well
as scripted television series, serious dramatic subjects (such as
death, illness, betrayal, grief, etc.) are handled with realism and
subtlety, while preserving a humorous tenor.
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Examples of comedy dramas in film include:
- Annie Hall, 1977, United States
- Asteroid City, 2023, United States
- Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, 2022, Mexico
- The Celebration, 1998, Denmark
- Forrest Gump, 1994, United States
Forrest
Gump
Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert
Zemeckis. An adaptation of the 1986 novel by Winston Groom, the
screenplay of the film is written by Eric Roth. It stars Tom Hanks in
the title role, alongside Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti
Williamson, and Sally Field in lead roles. The film follows the life
of an Alabama man named Forrest Gump (Hanks) and his experiences in
the 20th-century United States.
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At the anti-war March on the Pentagon rally, Forrest meets Abbie
Hoffman and briefly reunites with Jenny, who has been living a hippie
lifestyle. He also develops a talent for ping-pong, and becomes a
sports celebrity as he competes against Chinese teams in ping-pong
diplomacy, earning him an interview alongside John Lennon on The Dick
Cavett Show, influencing the song "Imagine". He spends the 1971 New
Year's Eve in New York City with Dan, who has become deeply
embittered. Forrest soon meets President Richard Nixon, who grants him
a room in the Watergate Hotel, where he unwittingly exposes the
Watergate scandal.
Richard
Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 36th vice president under President Dwight Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961, and also as a representative and senator from California. His presidency saw the reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon's second term ended early when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office, as a result of the Watergate scandal.
Watergate
Scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United
States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon. The
scandal began in 1972 and ultimately led to Nixon's resignation in
1974. It revolved around members of a group associated with Nixon's
1972 re-election campaign, who broke into the Democratic National
Committee headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in the Watergate complex
in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 1972, where they planted listening
devices, and Nixon's later attempts to conceal his administration's
involvement in the burglary.
During the break-in, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy remained in contact with each other and with the burglars by radio; these Chapstick tubes outfitted with tiny microphones were later discovered in Hunt's White House office safe.
Chapstick
ChapStick is a brand name of lip balm owned by Suave Brands Company
and is used in many countries worldwide. It is intended to help treat
and prevent chapped lips, hence the name. Many varieties also include
sunscreen to avoid sunburn.
Due to its popularity, the term has become a genericized trademark. It
popularly refers to any lip balm contained in a lipstick-style tube
and applied in the same manner as lipstick. However, the term is still
a registered trademark, with rights exclusively owned by Suave Brands
Company.
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ChapStick is sometimes available in special flavors developed in
connection with marketing partners such as Disney (as in
cross-promotions with Winnie the Pooh or the movie Cars) or with
charitable causes such as breast cancer awareness, in which 30¢ is
donated for each stick sold (as in the Susan G. Komen Pink Pack). The
Flava-Craze line is marketed to preteens and young teens, with
colorful applicators and "fun" flavors such as Grape Craze and Blue
Crazeberry.
US Olympic skier Suzy Chaffee starred in ChapStick television
commercials in which she dubbed herself "Suzy ChapStick". Another very
famous ChapStick advertisement includes basketball legend Julius
Erving (commonly known as Dr. J) naming himself Dr. ChapStick and
telling young children about the great things that ChapStick can do.
Winter
Olympics
The Winter Olympic Games (French: Jeux olympiques d'hiver)[a], also
known as the Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport
event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice.
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Cold War
The Winter Olympics were an ideological front in the Cold War since
the Soviet Union first participated at the 1956 Winter Games. It did
not take long for the Cold War combatants to discover what a powerful
propaganda tool the Olympic Games could be. The advent of the
state-sponsored "full-time amateur athlete" of the Eastern Bloc
countries further eroded the ideology of the pure amateur, as it put
the self-financed amateurs of the Western countries at a disadvantage.
The Soviet Union entered teams of athletes who were all nominally
students, soldiers, or working in a profession, but many of whom were
in reality paid by the state to train on a full-time basis.[46]
Nevertheless, the IOC held to the traditional rules regarding
amateurism until the '90s.[47]
Cold
War
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.
