The Making of a Football Game Guest: Caitlin King, Sports Producer, BYU Broadcasting  A behind-the-scenes look at the way most people watch football these days – on a high-definition TV at home. Ever wonder how the big game ends up on your big screen with replay shots from every angle so you don’t miss a thing? I peeked inside the process of a live football broadcast last fall when BYU played University of Connecticut at home. Dozens of BYU Broadcasting personnel had already been working for weeks by the time I showed up. On game day, about thirty of them crammed into tight rows of desks in a semi-trailer parked just outside the stadium. Giant coils of cables snake into the trailer. Small TV monitors line the walls. Flashing lights and buttons checker the desks. It’s a broadcast control room on wheels that could double as a space ship in a sci-fi movie. Ty Detmer Returns to BYU Guest: Ty Detmer, 1991 Heisman Trophy winner, BYU Football Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach  Back in 1990, Ty Detmer – the quarterback who led the Cougars to an incredible upset of the defending national champion Miami Hurricanes - was hands down the biggest celebrity in Provo. He went on to spend 14 years in the NFL and then coached a small private high school team in Texas to a miraculous turnaround.  And now, suddenly, he’s back in the heart of his fandom, as Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach for the BYU Cougars.  E-Sports Guest: Claire Schaeperkoetter, doctoral student, The University of Kansas Last year, the University of California, Irvine built a state-of the art arena with high-end computers and the equipment to do live broadcasts of videogaming competitions – also known as e-Sports.  They offered 10 academic scholarships for students to join the team.  Now get this – there are five universities in the country who offer scholarships to gamers as athletes. Not academic scholarships like at UC Irvine.  But really, is playing a video game with your thumbs a sport? Can you actually call these people athletes? University of Kansas researchers recently surveyed some of these gamers on athletic scholarships about this question.  The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution Guest: Joseph Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author  We’re coming up on July 4, when we celebrate the signing of The Declaration of Independence in 1776 – early in the Revolutionary War for independence from Britain. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis says that was merely the first American Revolution. The second started after the war ended, culminating in 1788 with the signing and ratification of the Constitution to create one nation, united – rather than 13 states loosely allied in the way that the countries of the European Union are today.  You see, the United States of America was not a foregone conclusion in the beginning and was, in fact, a revolutionary idea foisted on the states and their citizens by an ambitious foursome Ellis calls “The Quartet.”