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Interviews with Scholars of Sport about their New Books
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Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola, "The Rule Book: The Building Blocks of Games" (MIT Press, 2024)
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May 04, 2024 |
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Adam J. Criblez, "Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City" (Three Hills, 2024)
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Jerry Grillo, "Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Robert M. Jarvis, "Gambling Under the Swastika: Casinos, Horse Racing, Lotteries, and Other Forms of Betting in Nazi Germany" (Carolina Academic Press, 2019)
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Kieran File, "How Language Shapes Relationships in Professional Sports Teams: Power and Solidarity Dynamics in a New Zealand Rugby Team" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Adam Lazarus, "The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams" (Citadel Press, 2023)
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Rachel S. Gross, "Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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David Ostrowsky, "Roberto Alomar: The Complicated Life and Legacy of a Baseball Hall of Famer" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Piotr Florczyk, "Swimming Pool" (Bloombury, 2024)
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Ben Rothenberg, "Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice" (Dutton, 2024)
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Alex Squadron, "Life in the G: Minor League Basketball and the Relentless Pursuit of the NBA" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Bill Meiners, "Sport Literate" and "Game: A Sport Literate Anthology" (2023)
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, "Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Rich Cohen, "When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season" (Random House, 2023)
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Michelle J. Manno, "Denied: Women, Sports, and the Contradictions of Identity" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, "Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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David Steele, "It Was Always a Choice: Picking Up the Baton of Athlete Activism" (Temple UP, 2022)
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Jeffrey S. Gurock, "Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Genealogies of Modernity Episode 1: Climbing the Mountains of Modernity
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Stephanie Convery, "After the Count: The Death of Davey Browne" (Penguin Australia, 2020)
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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J. Daniel, "Suds Series: Baseball, Beer Wars, and the Summer of '82" (U Missouri Press, 2023)
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Jeffrey Scholes, "Christianity, Race, and Sport" (Routledge, 2021)
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Shay Rabineau, "Walking the Land: A History of Israeli Hiking Trails" (Indiana UP, 2023)
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden, "Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France" (Bucknell UP, 2022)
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Nick Baumgardner and Mark Snyder, "Mountaintop: The Inside Story of Michigan's 1997 National Title Climb" (Printopya, 2023)
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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James N. Druckman and Elizabeth A. Sharrow, "Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Steven P. Gietschier, "Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Lincoln A. Mitchell, "The One Hundred Most Important Players in Baseball History" (Artemesia Publishing, 2023)
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Karen Eva Carr, "Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Erik Sherman, "Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Mike Pesca, "Upon Further Review: The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History" (Twelve, 2018)
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Earl Cureton and Jake Uitti, "Earl the Twirl: My Life in Basketball" (McFarland, 2023)
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Matthew Bentley and John D. Bloom, "The Imperial Gridiron: Manhood, Civilization, and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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Katherine C. Mooney, "Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Surf Craft: Design and the Culture of Board Riding
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Zhouxiang Lu, "A History of Competitive Gaming" (Routledge, 2022)
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Lee Lowenfish, "Baseball's Endangered Species: Inside the Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Michael T. Friedman, "Mallparks: Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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How are Sports Teams Using Data Science?
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Carlo Parisi, "Dagger Fencing: The Italian School" (Fallen Rook, 2016)
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May 20, 2023 |
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The Business of College Sports: The Impact of NIL on NCAA Athletes
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May 19, 2023 |
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Journalistic Collaboration (JP)
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May 04, 2023 |
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James Hibbard, "The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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Paul R. Semendinger, "Roy White: From Compton to the Bronx" (Artemesia, 2023)
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Keith Brian Wood, "Memphis Hoops: Race and Basketball in the Bluff City,1968-1997" (U Tennessee Press, 2021)
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Gregory J. Kaliss, "Beyond the Black Power Salute: Athlete Activism in an Era of Change" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Alexis James, "Unsung: Not All Heroes Wear Kits" (Pitch Publishing, 2023)
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Kate Sylvester, "Women and Martial Art in Japan" (Routledge, 2022)
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Theresa Runstedtler, "Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA" (Bold Type Books, 2023)
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Thomas Aiello, "Dixieball: Race and Professional Basketball in the Deep South, 1947-1979" (U Tennessee Press, 2019)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær, "The Sounds of Spectators at Football" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Britni de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D'Arcangelo, "Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League" (Bold Type Books, 2021)
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Ashley Brown, "Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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The Business of the Early NHL
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Kevin Bryant, "Spies on the Sidelines: The High-Stakes World of NFL Espionage" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Pete Millwood, "Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Sara Petrosillo, "Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Mike Westhoff, "Figure It Out: My Thirty-Two-Year Journey While Revolutionizing Pro Football's Special Teams" (Mascot Books, 2022)
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Adam Elder, "New Kids in the World Cup: The Totally Late '80s and Early '90s Tale of the Team That Changed American Soccer Forever" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Tim Harte, "Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Matthew Taylor, "Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45" (Routledge, 2020)
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Shaun M. Anderson, "The Black Athlete Revolt: The Sport Justice Movement in the Age Of #BlackLivesMatter" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Sheri Brenden, "Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Harald Koberg, "Free Play: Digital Gaming and the Longing for Effectiveness" (Büchner-Verlag, 2021)
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Thomas Beller, "Lost in the Game: A Book about Basketball" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Ray Scott, "The NBA in Black and White: The Memoir of a Trailblazing NBA Player and Coach" (Seven Stories Press, 2022)
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Alan Shuback, "Hollywood at the Races: Film's Love Affair with the Turf" (UP of Kentucky, 2019)
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Muggsy Bogues and Jake Uitti, "Muggsy: My Life from a Kid in the Projects to the Godfather of Small Ball" (Triumph, 2022)
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Andrew McIlwaine Bell, "The Origins of Southern College Football: How an Ivy League Game Became a Dixie Tradition" (LSU Press, 2020)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Randall Balmer, "Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Ben Chappell, "Mexican American Fastpitch: Vernacular Sport and Cultural Citizenship in Mid-America" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Sherry Boschert, "37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination" (New Press, 2022)
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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How to Play Poker Like the Pros: A Conversation with Jonathan Little
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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John Saeki, "The Last Tigers of Hong Kong: True Stories of Big Cats That Stalked the Hills Beyond the City" (Blacksmith Books, 2021)
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Adam Adatto Sandel, "Happiness in Action: A Philosopher's Guide to the Good Life" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink, "Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Nancy Lough and Andrea N. Geurin, "Routledge Handbook of the Business of Women's Sport" (Routledge, 2019)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Jamie Fahey, "Futsal: The Indoor Game That Is Revolutionizing World Soccer" (Melville House, 2021)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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College Baseball in the Offseason: Meet the Savannah Bananas
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Fiona Crawford and Lee McGowan, "Never Say Die: The Hundred-Year Overnight Success of Australian Women's Football" (NewSouth Books, 2019)
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Randall Balmer, "Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Brian D. Bunk, "From Football to Soccer: The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Paul Russell Semendinger, "The Least Among Them: 29 Players, Their Brief Moments in the Big Leagues, and a Unique History of the New York Yankees" (Artemesia, 2021)
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Michael O. Johnston, "Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest" (Lexington Books, 2022)
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Ugo Corte, "Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Shaul Adar, "On the Border: The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Club in the World" (Pitch Publishing, 2022)
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Paul Oyer, "An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Don’t Hate the Player: The World of E-Sports
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Jamie Fahey, "Futsal: The Indoor Game That Is Revolutionizing World Soccer" (Melville House, 2022)
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Andrew M. Guest, "Soccer in Mind: A Thinking Fan's Guide to the Global Game" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Lisa Uperesa, "Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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John Morton, "Celebrate Winter: An Olympian's Stories of a Life in Nordic Skiing" (Morton Trails, 2020)
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Grant Wiedenfeld, "Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Donald Trump Loves Wrestlemania
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Jody Rosen, "Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle" (Crown, 2022)
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Shaul Adar, "On the Border: The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Club in the World" (Pitch Publishing, 2022)
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Daniel Silva, "Embodying Modernity: Global Fitness Culture and Building the Brazilian Body" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Greg Hoffman, "Emotion By Design: Creative Leadership Lessons from a Life at Nike" (Twelve, 2022)
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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On Taoism, Martial Arts, and Mad Monk Manifesto
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Mick Conefrey, "Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World's Highest Mountain" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Douglas Booth, "Bondi Beach: Representations of an Iconic Australian" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Carlos Acevedo, "The Duke: The Life and Lies of Tommy Morrison" (Hamilcar, 2022)
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May 30, 2022 |
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David Lunt, "The Crown Games of Ancient Greece: Archaeology, Athletes, and Heroes" (U Arkansas Press, 2022)
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May 19, 2022 |
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Shannon L. Walsh, "Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era: Watch Whiteness Workout" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
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May 19, 2022 |
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On Hiking as Pilgrimage
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May 18, 2022 |
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Gary B. Fogel, "Sky Rider: Park Van Tassel and the Rise of Ballooning in the West" (U New Mexico Press, 2021)
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May 06, 2022 |
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Craig Calcaterra, "Rethinking Fandom: How to Beat the Sports-Industrial Complex at Its Own Game" (Belt Publishing, 2022)
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May 05, 2022 |
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Paul Darby et al., "African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences and Trajectories" (Manchester UP, 2022)
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May 04, 2022 |
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Thomas Aiello, "Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Susan Nance, "Rodeo: An Animal History" (U Oklahoma Press, 2020)
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Why Is Eileen Gu the New Poster Child in China?
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Hugo Ceron-Anaya, "Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Rickson Gracie and Peter Maguire, "Breathe: A Life in Flow" (Dey Street, 2021)
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Dan Grunfeld, "By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream" (Triumph Books, 2022)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Samir Chopra, "The Evolution of a Cricket Fan: My Shapeshifting Journey" (Temple UP, 2021)
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Carly D. McKay, "The Mental Impact of Sports Injury" (Routledge, 2021)
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Christopher Clarey, "The Master: The Brilliant Career of Roger Federer" (Twelve, 2021)
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Michella M. Marino, "Roller Derby: The History of an American Sport" (U Texas Press, 2021)
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Kurt Edward Kemper, "Before March Madness: The Wars for the Soul of College Basketball" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Heather L. Dichter, "Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport's Cold War Battle with NATO" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Martin Wells, "No One Playing: The Essence of Mindfulness in Golf and in Life" (John Hunt, 2022)
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Frank Andre Guridy, "The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics" (U Texas Press, 2021)
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Georgia Cervin, "Degrees of Difficulty: How Women's Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell from Grace" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Alistair Shearer, "The Story of Yoga: From Ancient India to the Modern West" (Hurst, 2020)
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Janko Tipsarevic, “The Mind-Body Problem” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Jethro Binns: Founder of Squashskills.com on Online Sports Training
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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Jörg Krieger, "Power and Politics in World Athletics: A Critical History" (Routledge, 2021)
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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William J. Morgan, "Sport and Moral Conflict: A Conventionalist Theory" (Temple UP, 2020)
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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The #MeToo Movement in China and the Case of Tennis Star Peng Shuai
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Dave Zirin, "The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World" (New Press, 2021)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Shoutin’ In the Fire: A Conversation with Graduate Student Dante Stewart
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Jen Corrinne Brown, "Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West" (U Washington Press, 2017)
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Ben Guest, "Zen and the Art of Coaching Basketball: A Namibian Odyssey" (2021)
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Rebecca Joyce Kissane and Sarah Winslow, "Whose Game?: Gender and Power in Fantasy Sports" (Temple UP, 2020)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Anthony Ianni, "Centered: Autism, Basketball, and One Athlete's Dreams" (Red Lightning Books, 2021)
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Carl Rommel, "Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics" (U Texas Press, 2021)
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Don Stradley, "The War: Hagler-Hearns and Three Rounds for the Ages" (Hamilcar Publications, 2021)
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Halimah Marcus, "Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond" (Harper Perennial, 2021)
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Jessica Luther and Kavitha Davidson, "Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back" (U Texas Press, 2020)
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Petr Roubal, "Spartakiads: The Politics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia" (Karolinum Press, 2020)
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Luke Epplin, "Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball" (Flatiron Books, 2021)
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke, "The Plant-Based Athlete: A Game-Changing Approach to Peak Performance" (HarperOne, 2021)
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Mariska van Sprundel, "Running Smart: How Science Can Improve Your Endurance and Performance" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Philippe Vonnard, "Creating a United Europe of Football: The Formation of UEFA (1949–1961)" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Fred Gitelman, “In the Cards” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Jenny Stuber, "Aspen and the American Dream: How One Town Manages Inequality in the Era of Supergentrification" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Buzzy Kerbox, "Making Waves" (Legacy Isle Publishing, 2019)
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Richard Mills, "The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia: Sport, Nationalism and the State" (I. B. Tauris, 2018)
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Greg Larson, "Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Syl Sobel and Jay Rosenstein, "Boxed Out of the NBA: Remembering the Eastern Professional Basketball League" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Stephen D. Allen, "A History of Boxing in Mexico: Masculinity, Modernity, and Nationalism" (U New Mexico Press, 2017)
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Alan McDougall, "Contested Fields: A Global History of Modern Football" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Bob Kuska and Archie Clark, "Shake and Bake: The Life and Times of NBA Great Archie Clark" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Lincoln A. Mitchell, "The Giants and Their City: Major League Baseball in San Francisco, 1976-1992" (Kent State UP, 2021)
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, "Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul" (Syracuse UP, 2020)
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Cat M. Ariail, "Passing the Baton: Black Women Track Stars and American Identity" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Jurgen Martschukat, "The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement" (Polity, 2021)
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May 31, 2021 |
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Dave Seminara, "Footsteps of Federer: A Fan’s Pilgrimage Across 7 Swiss Cantons in 10 Acts" (Post Hill Press, 2021)
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May 27, 2021 |
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Bradford Pearson, "The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration and Resistance in World War II America" (Atria, 2021)
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May 03, 2021 |
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Andrew Maraniss, "Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke" (Philomel Books, 2021)
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Bruce Berglund, "The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey and the Globalization of Sports" (U California Press, 2020)
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Elyssa Ford, "Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion: Race, Gender, and Identity in the American Rodeo" (UP of Kansas, 2020)
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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David Ostrowsky, "Pro Sports in 1993: A Signature Season in Football, Basketball, Hockey and Baseball" (McFarland, 2020)
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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Dennis J. Frost, "More Than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Alisha Rankin, "The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science" (Alisha Rankin, 2021)
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Bradford Pearson, "The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration and Resistance in World War II America" (Atria, 2021)
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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R. Roberts and J. Smith, "War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War" (Basic Books, 2020)
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Joshua Mendelsohn, "The Cap: How Larry Fleisher and David Stern Built the Modern NBA" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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David Trouille, "Fútbol in the Park: Immigrants, Soccer, and the Creation of Social Ties" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Ed Caesar, "The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest" (Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster, 2020)
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Mike Miley, "Truth and Consequences: Game Shows in Fiction and Film" (UP Mississippi, 2020)
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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William W. Kelly, "The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan" (University of California Press, 2018)
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Daniel Lieberman, "Exercised: How We Did Not Evolve to Exercise and What to Do about It" (Pantheon, 2021)
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Ronald Hutton, "The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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Pete Croatto, "From Hang Time to Prime Time: Business, Entertainment, and the Birth of the Modern-Day NBA" (Atria Books, 2020)
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Melissa Harper, "The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia" (U Washington Press, 2020)
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Heather L. Dichter, "Soccer Diplomacy: International Relations and Football since 1914" (UP of Kentucky, 2020)
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Paul Knepper, "The Knicks of the Nineties: Ewing, Oakley, Starks and the Brawlers That Almost Won It All" (McFarland, 2020)
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Harvey Araton, "Our Last Season: A Writer, a Fan, a Friendship" (Penguin, 2020)
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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Travis Vogan, "ABC Sports: The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television" (U California Press, 2018)
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Kat D. Williams, "Isabel 'Lefty' Alvarez: The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Chas Smith, "Cocaine and Surfing: A Sordid History of Surfing’s Greatest Love Affair" (Rare Bird, 2018)
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Steven M. Ortiz, "The Sport Marriage: Women Who Make It Work" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Grégory Quin, "Des Réseaux et des Hommes: Participation et Contribution de la Suisse à l’Internationalisation du Sport (1912-1972)" (Éditions Alphil, 2019)
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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David Davis, "Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports" (Center Street, 2020)
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Joel S. Franks, "Asian American Basketball: A Century of Sport, Community and Culture" (McFarland, 2016)
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Barbara Keys, "The Ideals of Global Sport: From Peace to Human Rights" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Corey Sobel, "The Red Shirt" (UP of Kentucky, 2020)
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Ralph Carhart, "The Hall Ball" (McFarland, 2020)
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Ron Snyder, "The Baltimore Stallions: The Brief, Brilliant History of the CFL Champion Franchise" (McFarland, 2020)
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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James Carter, "Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai" (Norton, 2020)
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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J. Iber and M. Longoria, "Latinos in American Football: Pathbreakers on the Gridiron, 1927 to the Present" (McFarland, 2020)
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Lou Hernandez, "Bobby Maduro and the Cuban Sugar Kings" (McFarland, 2019)
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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Sasha Abramsky, "Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World’s First Female Sports Superstar" (Akashic Books, 2020)
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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José Alamillo, "Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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Jeremy Bhandari, "Trust the Grind: How World-Class Athletes Got to the Top" (Mango Publishing, 2020)
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Danyel Reiche and Tamir Sorek, "Sport, Politics, and Society in the Middle East" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Kathleen Bachynski, "No Game for Boys to Play: The History of Youth Football and the Origins of a Public Health Crisis" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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Jennifer Domino Rudolph, "Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Wade Davies, "Native Hoops: The Rise of American Indian Basketball, 1895-1970" (UP of Kansas, 2020)
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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Ben Cohen, "The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks" (Custom House, 2020)
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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John Harney, "Empire of Infields: Baseball in Taiwan and Cultural Identity, 1895-1968" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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Allan Downey, "The Creator’s Game: Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood" (UBC Press, 2018)
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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Jonathan Gelber, "Tiger Woods’s Back and Tommy John’s Elbow" (Skyhorse, 2019)
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Mitchell Nathanson, "Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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May 25, 2020 |
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Rebecca J. Kissane and Sarah Winslow, "Whose Game?: Gender and Power in Fantasy Sports" (Temple UP, 2020)
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May 07, 2020 |
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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David Block, "Pastime Lost: The Humble, Original and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Yaron Weitzman, "Tanking to the Top" (Grand Central, 2020)
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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Tim Rooney, "John Beilein at Michigan: A Basketball Revival" (McFarland, 2020)
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Gerald R. Gems, "Sport and the Shaping of Civic Identity in Chicago" (Lexington Books, 2020)
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Travis Bell et al., "CTE, Media, and the NFL: Framing a Public Health Crisis as a Football Epidemic" (Lexington, 2019)
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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Mort Zachter, "Red Holzman: The Life and Legacy of a Hall of Fame Basketball Coach" (Sports Publishing, 2019)
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Nicholas Blincoe, "More Noble Than War: A Soccer History of Israel-Palestine" (Bold Type Books, 2019)
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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Roger Gilles, "Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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Brad Balukjian, "The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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Matthew Goodman, "The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team" (Ballantine Books, 2019)
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Christopher J. Phillips, "Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know About Baseball" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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Andrew R. M. Smith, "No Way But To Fight: George Foreman and the Business of Boxing" (U Texas Press, 2020)
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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John N. Singer, "Race, Sports, and Education: Improving Opportunities and Outcomes for Black Male College Athletes" (Harvard Ed Press, 2019)
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Maria Veri and Rita Liberti, "Gridiron Gourmet: Gender and Food at the Football Tailgate" (U Arkansas Press, 2019)
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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Seán Crosson, "Gaelic Games on Film" (Cork UP, 2019)
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Dec 30, 2019 |
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Evan Friss, "On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Dec 26, 2019 |
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Gabe Logan, "The Early Years of Chicago Soccer, 1887-1939" (Lexington Books, 2019)
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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Asher Price, "Earl Campbell: Yards After Contact" (U Texas Press, 2019)
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Peter Kerasotis, "Alou: My Baseball Journey" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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Rebecca Scofield, "Outriders: Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West" (U Washington, 2019)
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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Lincoln A. Mitchell, "San Francisco Year Zero" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Derrick E. White, "Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football" (UNC, 2019)
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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Trevor Thompson, "Playing for Australia: The First Socceroos, Asia, and World Football" (Fair Play, 2018)
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Noah Cohan, "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers: Fan Narratives and the Reading of American Sport" (U Nebraska, 2019)
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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David A. F. Sweet, "Three Seconds in Munich: The Controversial 1972 Olympic Basketball Final" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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Rob Ruck, "Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL" (The New Press, 2018)
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Bernardo Ramirez Rios, "Transnational Sport in the American West: Oaxaca California Basketball" (Lexington Books, 2019)
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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Roy Hay, "Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the 19th Century" (Cambridge Scholars, 2019)
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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Vanessa Heggie, "Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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Susan Brownell, "The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics" (U California Press, 2018)
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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Kerry Eggers, "Jail Blazers: How the Portland Trail Blazers Became the Bad Boys of Basketball" (Sport Publishing, 2018)
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Stephen Hardy and Andrew Holman, "Hockey: A Global History" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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Gregory H. Wolf, "Wrigley Field: The Friendly Confines at Clark and Addison" (SABR, 2019)
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel, "Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America" (U Texas Press, 2019)
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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Chris Donnelly, "Doc, Donnie, The Kid and Billy Brawl: How the 1985 Mets and Yankees Fought For New York’s Baseball Soul" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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Bonita Mersiades, "Whatever It Takes: The Inside Story of the FIFA Way" (Powderhouse Press, 2018)
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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Gregg Bocketti, "The Invention of the Beautiful Game: Football and the Making of Modern Brazil" (UP of Florida, 2016)
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May 31, 2019 |
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Alexander Barnes, "Play Ball! Doughboys and Baseball during the Great War" (Schiffer Publishing, 2019)
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May 28, 2019 |
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Lincoln A. Mitchell, "Baseball Goes West: The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues"
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Roger Robinson, "When Running Made History" (Syracuse UP, 2018)
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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Ron Keurajian, "Baseball Hall of Fame Autographs: A Reference Guide" (McFarland, 2018)
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Keith Gave, "The Russian Five: A Story of Espionage, Defection, Bribery and Courage" (Gold Star Publishing, 2018)
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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César Brioso, "Last Seasons in Havana: The Castro Revolution and the End of Professional Baseball In Cuba" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
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Mar 15, 2019 |
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Natalie Koch, "Critical Geographies of Sport: Space, Power, and Sport in Global Perspective" (Routledge, 2017)
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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Danyel Reiche, "Success and Failure of Countries at the Olympic Games" (Routedge, 2016)
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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Peter Hopsicker and Mark Dyreson, "A Half Century of Super Bowls: National and Global Perspectives on America's Grandest Spectacle" (Routledge, 2018)
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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Robert C. Trumpbour and Kenneth Womack, "The Eighth Wonder of the World: The Life of Houston's Iconic Astrodome" (U Nebraska Press, 2016)
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Dec 12, 2018 |
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Grant Farred, "The Burden of Over-Representation: Race, Sport, and Philosophy" (Temple UP, 2018)
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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Howard W. Rosenberg, “Ty Cobb Unleashed: The Definitive Counter-Biography of the Chastened Racist” (Tile Books, 2018)
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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Shelby Yastrow and Tony Jacklin, “Bad Lies” (Mascot Books, 2017)
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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Jenifer Parks, “The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sport Bureaucracy, and the Cold War: Red Sport, Red Tape” (Lexington Books, 2016)
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Oct 26, 2018 |
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Jack Gilden, “Collision of Wills: Johnny Unitas, Don Shula, and the Rise of the Modern NFL” (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
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Oct 05, 2018 |
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Antonio Sotomayor, “The Sovereign Colony: Olympic Sport, National Identity, and International Politics in Puerto Rico” (U Nebraska Press, 2016)
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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D. G. Surdam and M. J. Haupert, “The Age of Ruth and Landis: The Economics of Baseball during the Roaring Twenties” (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
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Sep 03, 2018 |
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Skip Desjardin, “September 1918: War, Plague, and the World Series” (Regnery History, 2018)
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Aug 27, 2018 |
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Gerald Gems, “Sport and the American Occupation of the Philippines: Bats, Balls, and Bayonets” (Lexington Books, 2016)
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Aug 14, 2018 |
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Gregory Snyder, “Skateboarding LA: Inside Professional Street Skateboarding” (NYU Press, 2017)
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May 14, 2018 |
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Jesse Berrett, “Pigskin Nation: How the NFL Remade American Politics” (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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May 09, 2018 |
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David Wanczyk, “Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind” (Swallow Press, 2018)
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May 03, 2018 |
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Averell Smith, “The Pitcher and the Dictator: Satchel Paige’s Unlikely Season in the Dominican Republic” (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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Kevin Simpson, “Soccer under the Swastika: Stories of Survival and Resistance during the Holocaust” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
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Apr 12, 2018 |
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Amy Bass, “One Goal: A Coach, A Team, and the Game that Brought a Divided Town Together” (Hachette Books, 2018)
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Apr 04, 2018 |
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David Rapp, “Tinker to Evers to Chance: The Chicago Cubs and the Dream of Modern America” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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Douglas Hartman, “Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy” (U Chicago Press, 2016)
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Feb 12, 2018 |
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Sridhar Pappu, “The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age” (HMH, 2017)
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Feb 01, 2018 |
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Monica Mattfeld, “Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship” (Penn State UP, 2017)
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Jan 19, 2018 |
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Paul Hensler, “The New Boys of Summer: Baseball’s Radical Transformation in the Late Sixties” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
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Dec 21, 2017 |
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Brett L. Abrams, “Terry Bradshaw: From Super Bowl Champion to Television Personality” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
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Dec 15, 2017 |
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Paul Beston, “The Boxing Kings: When American Heavyweights Ruled the Ring” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017)
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Dec 05, 2017 |
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Adam J. Criblez, “Tall Tales and Short Shorts: Dr. J, Pistol Pete, and the Birth of the Modern NBA” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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David Goldstein, “Alley-Oop To Aliyah: African American Hoopsters in The Holy Land” (Skyhorse Publishing, 2017)
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Nov 11, 2017 |
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Jeffrey Kidder, “Parkour and the City: Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport” (Rutgers UP, 2017)
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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Tom Carhart, “The Golden Fleece: High-Risk Adventure at West Point” (Potomac Books, 2017)
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Sep 15, 2017 |
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Don Nunley with Marshall Terrill, “Steve McQueen: Le Mans in the Rearview Mirror” (Dalton Watson, 2017)
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Aug 02, 2017 |
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Carlo Rotella and Michael Ezra, eds. “The Bittersweet Science: Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside” (U. Chicago, 2017)
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May 26, 2017 |
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Kelly Belanger, “Invisible Seasons: Title IX and the Fight for Equity in College Sports” (Syracuse UP, 2016)
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Mar 20, 2017 |
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Tony Collins, “The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
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Mar 19, 2017 |
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Ronojoy Sen, “Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India” (Columbia UP, 2016)
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Mar 06, 2017 |
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Mitchel Roth, “Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo” (U. North Texas Press, 2016)
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Feb 01, 2017 |
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Steve Tripp, “Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American Manhood” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
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Jan 30, 2017 |
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Carroll Pursell, “From Playgrounds to PlayStation: The Interaction of Technology and Play” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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Roman Sieler, “Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets: Medicine and Martial Arts in South India” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Oct 28, 2016 |
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Jessamyn R. Abel, “The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan’s Global Engagement, 1933-1964” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2015)
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Oct 24, 2016 |
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Bob Mionske, “Bicycling and the Law: Your Rights as a Cyclist” (VeloPress, 2007)
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Oct 13, 2016 |
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Jules Boykoff, “Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics” (Verso, 2016)
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Aug 11, 2016 |
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Simon Creak, “Embodied Nation: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2015)
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Jul 27, 2016 |
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Norman L. Macht, “The Grand Old Man of Baseball: Connie Mack in His Final Years, 1932-1956” (U. of Nebraska Press, 2015)
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Jun 28, 2016 |
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Yago Colas, “Ball Don’t Lie! Myth, Genealogy and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball” (Temple University Press, 2016)
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Jun 08, 2016 |
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Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith, “Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X” (Basic Books, 2016)
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Apr 30, 2016 |
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Howard P. Chudacoff, “Changing the Playbook: How Power, Profit, and Politics Transformed College Sports” (U of Illinois Press, 2015)
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Apr 11, 2016 |
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Adam Kucharski, “The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling” (Basic Books, 2016)
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Mar 31, 2016 |
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Alexander Wolff, “The Audacity of Hoop: Basketball and the Age of Obama” (Temple UP, 2015)
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Mar 30, 2016 |
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Alan McDougall, “The People’s Game: Football, State and Society in East Germany” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
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Mar 24, 2016 |
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Julie Des Jardins, “Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man” (Oxford University Press, 2015)
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Feb 06, 2016 |
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Charles Fountain, “The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Nov 20, 2015 |
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David Zang, “I Wore Babe Ruth’s Hat: Field Notes from a Life in Sports” (University of Illinois Press, 2015)
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Oct 13, 2015 |
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Annie Blazer, “Playing for God: Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry” (NYU Press, 2015)
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Oct 08, 2015 |
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David Snowdon, “Writing the Prizefight: Pierce Egan’s Boxiana World” (Peter Lang, 2013)
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Sep 04, 2015 |
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David George Surdham, “The Big Leagues Go to Washington: Congress and Sports Antitrust, 1951-1989” (U of Illinois Press, 2015)
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Jul 24, 2015 |
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Eric Reed, “Selling the Yellow Jersey: The Tour de France in the Global Era” (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Jul 17, 2015 |
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James A. Holstein, Richard S. Jones, George Koonce, Jr., “Is There Life After Football? Surviving the NFL” (New York UP, 2014)
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Mar 17, 2015 |
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Jules Boykoff, “Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London” (Rutgers University Press, 2014)
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Dec 22, 2014 |
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Bruce Babington, “The Sports Film: Games People Play” (Wallflower Press, 2014)
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Dec 11, 2014 |
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Eric Allen Hall, “Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)
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Nov 04, 2014 |
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Matthew Algeo, “Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk Was America’s Favorite Spectator Sport” (Chicago Review Press, 2014)
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Sep 04, 2014 |
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Stefan Rinke and Kay Schiller (editors), “The FIFA World Cup 1930-2010: Politics, Commerce, Spectacle and Identities” (Wallstein, 2014)
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Aug 01, 2014 |
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J.C. Herz, “Learning to Breath Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness” (Crown Archetype, 2014)
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Jul 18, 2014 |
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Roger Kittleson, “The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil” (University of California Press, 2014) and Joshua Nadel, “Fútbol! Why Soccer Matters in Latin America” (University Press of Florida, 2014)
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Jun 24, 2014 |
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Travis Vogan, “Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media” (University of Illinois Press, 2014)
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May 16, 2014 |
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Lucia Trimbur, “Come Out Swinging: The Changing World of Boxing in Gleason’s Gym” (Princeton University Press, 2013))
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Apr 25, 2014 |
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Lincoln Harvey, “A Brief Theology of Sport” (SCM Press, 2014)
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Apr 04, 2014 |
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Brett Hutchins and David Rowe, “Sport Beyond Television: The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of Networked Media Sport” (Routledge, 2013)
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Mar 20, 2014 |
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N. Jeremi Duru, “Advancing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in the NFL” (Oxford University Press, 2011)
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Mar 06, 2014 |
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Jules Boykoff, “Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games” (Routledge, 2013)
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Feb 07, 2014 |
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Sam Miller and Jason Wojciechowski, “Baseball Prospectus 2014” (Wiley, 2014)
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Feb 05, 2014 |
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John Matthew Smith, “The Sons of Westwood: John Wooden, UCLA, and the Dynasty That Changed College Basketball” (University of Illinois Press, 2013)
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Jan 29, 2014 |
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Susan Ware, “Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women’s Sports” (UNC Press, 2011)
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Jan 17, 2014 |
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The 2013 Year-End Episode
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Dec 22, 2013 |
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Kevin Kerrane, “Dollar Sign on the Muscle: The World of Baseball Scouting” (CreateSpace, 2013)
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Dec 13, 2013 |
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Peter Westwick and Peter Neushul, “The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing” (Crown, 2013)
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Dec 02, 2013 |
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Lindsay Krasnoff, “The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France, 1958-2010” (Lexington Books, 2012)
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Nov 14, 2013 |
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The NBS Fall Seminar: Sports Memoirs
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Oct 07, 2013 |
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David Little, “The Sports Show: Athletics as Image and Spectacle” (University of Minnesota Press, 2012)
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Sep 24, 2013 |
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Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann (editors), “Africa’s World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space” (University of Michigan Press, 2013)
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Sep 05, 2013 |
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Tony Collins, “Sport in Capitalist Society: A Short History” (Routledge, 2013)
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Aug 13, 2013 |
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Chris Anderson and David Sally, “The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong” (Penguin, 2013)
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Aug 01, 2013 |
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Eric Simons, “The Secret Lives of Sports Fans: The Science of Sports Obsession” (The Overlook Press, 2013)
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Jul 31, 2013 |
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Peter Hansen, “The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment” (Harvard University Press, 2013)
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Jul 09, 2013 |
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Samir Chopra, “Brave New Pitch: The Evolution of Modern Cricket” (HarperCollins, 2012)
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Jun 17, 2013 |
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The NBS Summer Seminar: Sports Books for Children
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Jun 04, 2013 |
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Ron Kaplan, “501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die” (University of Nebraska Press, 2013)
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May 17, 2013 |
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Martin Kelner, “Sit Down and Cheer: A History of Sport on TV” (Bloomsbury, 2012)
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Apr 15, 2013 |
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Simon Martin, “Sport Italia: The Italian Love Affair with Sport” (I.B. Tauris, 2011)
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Mar 29, 2013 |
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Andrew Zimbalist, “In the Best Interests of Baseball: Governing the National Pastime” (University of Nebraska Press, 2013)
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Mar 15, 2013 |
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Dennis Deninger, “Sports on Television: The How and Why Behind What You See” (Routledge, 2012)
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Feb 20, 2013 |
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Steven Riess, “The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime: Horse Racing, Politics, and Organized Crime in New York, 1865-1913” (Syracuse University Press, 2011)
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Jan 31, 2013 |
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David George Surdam, “The Rise of the National Basketball Association” (University of Illinois Press, 2012)
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Jan 08, 2013 |
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The 2012 Year-End Book List Episode
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Dec 19, 2012 |
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Dave Gluck, “Rhythms of the Game: The Link Between Musical and Athletic Performance” (Hal Leonard, 2011)
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Dec 05, 2012 |
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Brett Bebber, “Violence and Racism in Football: Politics and Cultural Conflict in British Society, 1968-1998” (Pickering & Chatto, 2011)
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Nov 29, 2012 |
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Declan Hill, “The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime” (McClelland & Stewart, 2010)
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Nov 13, 2012 |
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Andrei Markovits and Emily Albertson, “Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States” (Temple University Press, 2012)
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Nov 09, 2012 |
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Donald Spivey, “‘If You Were Only White’: The Life of Leroy ‘Satchel’ Paige” (University of Missouri Press, 2012)
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Oct 25, 2012 |
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Chris Cooper, “Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat: The Science Behind Drugs in Sport” (Oxford University Press, 2012)
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Oct 09, 2012 |
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Theresa Runstedtler, “Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line” (University of California Press, 2012)
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Sep 24, 2012 |
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Guy Fraser-Sampson, “Cricket at the Crossroads: Class, Colour and Controversy from 1967 to 1977” (Elliott & Thompson, 2011)
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Sep 08, 2012 |
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Laurent Dubois, “Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France” (University of California Press, 2011)
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Aug 24, 2012 |
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Greg de Moore, “Tom Wills: First Wild Man of Australian Sport” (Allen and Unwin, 2011)
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Aug 17, 2012 |
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Lisa Bier, “Fighting the Current: The Rise of American Women’s Swimming, 1870-1926” (McFarland, 2011)
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Aug 10, 2012 |
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Kate Buford, “Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe” (Bison Books, 2012)
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Aug 01, 2012 |
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The NBS Summer Seminar: Understanding the Olympic Games
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Jul 26, 2012 |
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David Davis, “Showdown at Shepherd’s Bush: The 1908 Olympic Marathon and the Three Runners Who Launched a Sporting Craze” (Thomas Dunne Books, 2012)
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Jul 19, 2012 |
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Brian Ingrassia, “The Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Education’s Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football” (University Press of Kansas, 2012)
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Jul 06, 2012 |
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Kevin Young, “Sport, Violence and Society” (Routledge, 2012)
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Jun 29, 2012 |
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Timothy Grainey, “Beyond ‘Bend It Like Beckham’: The Global Phenomenon of Women’s Soccer” (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)
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Jun 22, 2012 |
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David J. Leonard, “After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness” (SUNY Press, 2012)
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Jun 15, 2012 |
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John Fox, “The Ball: Discovering the Object of the Game” (HarperCollins, 2012)
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Jun 07, 2012 |
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The NBS Spring Seminar: Understanding European Football
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May 15, 2012 |
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Robert Lipsyte, “An Accidental Sportswriter: A Memoir” (Ecco, 2011)
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May 07, 2012 |
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Paul Dickson, “Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick” (Walker & Company, 2012)
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Apr 30, 2012 |
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Robert K. Fitts, “Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan” (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)
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Apr 23, 2012 |
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Randy Roberts, “A Team for America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011)
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Apr 13, 2012 |
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Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, “Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War” (Cambridge UP, 2010)
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Apr 06, 2012 |
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Paul Watson, “Up Pohnpei: A Quest to Reclaim the Soul of Football by Leading the World’s Ultimate Underdogs to Glory” (Profile Books, 2012)
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Mar 29, 2012 |
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Richard Wilson, “Inside the Divide: One City, Two Teams, the Old Firm” (Canongate, 2012)
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Mar 22, 2012 |
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Gideon Haigh, “Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents” (Victory Books, 2010)
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Mar 15, 2012 |
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Mary Louise Adams, “Artistic Impressions: Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport” (University of Toronto Press, 2011)
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Mar 08, 2012 |
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John Bloom, “There You Have It: The Life, Legacy, and Legend of Howard Cosell” (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010)
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Feb 27, 2012 |
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Peter Millward, “The Global Football League: Transnational Networks, Social Movements and Sport in the New Media Age” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
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Feb 20, 2012 |
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Stephen Mumford, “Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion” (Routledge, 2011)
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Feb 13, 2012 |
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Roy MacGregor, “Wayne Gretzky’s Ghost: And Other Tales from a Lifetime in Hockey” (Random House Canada, 2011)
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Feb 06, 2012 |
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Andrew Ritchie, “Quest for Speed: A History of Early Bicycle Racing 1868-1903” (Cycle Publishing, 2011)
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Jan 30, 2012 |
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Adrian Burgos, Jr., “Cuban Star: How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball” (Hill and Wang, 2011)
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Jan 26, 2012 |
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Dennis Frost, “Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan” (Harvard UP, 2011)
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Jan 24, 2012 |
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Randy Roberts, “Joe Louis: Hard Times Man” (Yale UP, 2010)
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Jan 17, 2012 |
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The New Books in Sports 2011 Year-End Book List
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Dec 09, 2011 |
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Andrei Markovits, “Gaming the World: How Sports Are Shaping Global Politics and Culture” (Princeton UP, 2010)
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Nov 22, 2011 |
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Ronald Reng, “A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke” (Yellow Jersey Press, 2011)
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Nov 11, 2011 |
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David Potter, “The Victor’s Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium” (Oxford UP, 2011)
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Nov 01, 2011 |
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Jorge Iber, “Latinos in U.S. Sport: A History of Isolation, Cultural Identity, and Acceptance” (Human Kinetics, 2011)
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Oct 26, 2011 |
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Teddy Jamieson, “Whose Side Are You On?: Sport, the Troubles, and Me” (Yellow Jersey Press, 2011)
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Oct 17, 2011 |
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Jennifer Ring, “Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball” (University of Illinois Press, 2009)
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Oct 10, 2011 |
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Dave Zirin, “The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment that Changed the World” (Haymarket Books, 2011)
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Oct 04, 2011 |
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Kay Schiller and Christopher Young, “The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany” (University of California Press, 2010)
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Sep 26, 2011 |
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Scott Brooks, “Black Men Can’t Shoot” (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
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Sep 19, 2011 |
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Allen Guttmann, “Sports and American Art from Benjamin West to Andy Warhol” (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011)
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Sep 12, 2011 |
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Andrew Morris, “Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan” (University of California Press, 2010)
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Aug 31, 2011 |
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Steve Bloomfield, “Africa United: How Football Explains Africa” (Canongate Books, 2010)
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Aug 23, 2011 |
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John Eric Goff, “Gold Medal Physics: The Science of Sports” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2009)
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Aug 15, 2011 |
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Evander Lomke and Martin Rowe, “Right Off the Bat: Cricket, Baseball, Literature & Life” (Paul Dry Books, 2011)
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Aug 09, 2011 |
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Tony Collins, “A Social History of English Rugby Union” (Routledge, 2009)
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Jul 15, 2011 |
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Todd Denault, “The Greatest Game: The Montreal Canadiens, the Red Army, and the Night that Saved Hockey” (McClelland & Stewart, 2010)
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Jul 05, 2011 |
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Lee Congdon, “Baseball and Memory: Winning, Losing, and Remembrance of Things Past” (St. Augustine’s Press, 2011)
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Jul 05, 2011 |
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Don Van Natta, Jr., “Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias” (Little, Brown, and Company, 2011)
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Jun 23, 2011 |
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Michael Oriard, ” Brand NFL: Making and Selling America’s Favorite Sport” (UNC Press, 2010)
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Jun 15, 2011 |
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Charles Clotfelter, “Big-Time College Sports in American Universities” (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
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Jun 08, 2011 |
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Gavin Mortimer, “The Great Swim” (Walker Books, 2008)
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May 31, 2011 |
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Chuck Korr, “More Than Just a Game–Soccer vs. Apartheid: The Greatest Soccer Story Ever Told” (Thomas Dunne Books, 2010)
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May 26, 2011 |
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Kurt Kemper, “College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era” (University of Illinois Press, 2009)
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May 20, 2011 |
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Erik Jensen, “Body by Weimar: Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity” (Oxford UP, 2010)
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Apr 01, 2011 |
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Aram Goudsouzian, “King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution” (University of California, 2010)
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Oct 12, 2010 |