EditorialThe Iowa pep band before the Elite Eight round of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament between the Louisville Cardinals and the Iowa Hawkeyes in Seattle, March 26, 2023. (Bedel Saget/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Iowa pep band before the Elite Eight round of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament between the Louisville Cardinals and the Iowa Hawkeyes in Seattle, March 26, 2023. (Bedel Saget/The New York Times)
EditorialStudents hold hands at a pep rally before the final home game of the season for the Fightin’ Gobblers football team at Cuero High School in Cuero, Texas, Nov. 3, 2022. (Callaghan O'Hare/The New York Times)
EditorialMuhammad Ali and Mike Tysons boxing glove to Diego Maradona and Serena Williams uniforms among haul of sports treasures going under the hammer
EditorialStudents at McDonough Middle School in Hartford, Conn., leave the gym after a pep rally to encourage student attendance on March 18, 2022. About 16 percent of the school’s students were marked absent that day. (Yehyun Kim/The New York Times)
EditorialSt. John Bosco High School football players during a pep rally at the school on the day of a game against arch-rival Mater Dei High School, in Bellflower, Calif., Oct. 1, 2021. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialA yearbook photo of Jamie Denison, right, playing at a pep assembly at Loy Norrix High School in Kalamazoo, Mich., Mich., Oct. 2, 2020. (Elaine Cromie/The New York Times)
EditorialKamala Harris, center on the right page, in a 981 yearbook photo with fellow members of the Pep Club in her graduating year at Westmount High, in Montreal on Sept. 11, 2020. (Nasuna Stuart-Ulin/The New York Times)