Nicholas Alumkal
Stateside Production AssistantNicholas Alumkal is a production assistant for Stateside. He will be a senior in the fall at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, studying broadcast and digital journalism. At Syracuse University, Nicholas is also a senior staff writer covering sports for The Daily Orange. He’s lived in Ann Arbor since 2019 and is a proud Greenhills School alumnus. In his free time, Nicholas likes to play, watch, read and write about soccer, plus play the mandolin and spend time outdoors.
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When the U.S. last hosted the World Cup 1994, soccer was difficult to follow. With the tournament back in the U.S. this summer, University of Michigan Professor Emeritus Andrei Markovits describes how soccer's popularity has grown in the country. -
Unco Chad's Hawaiian Flavaz, a food truck that travels around southeast Michigan, serves up authentic poke and other local Hawaiian dishes. -
Iraq’s men’s national soccer team will compete in the World Cup for the first time in 40 years this summer. Their qualification sparked celebration among the roughly 100,000 Michigan residents with Iraqi heritage, the most of any U.S. state.
