New Books in Sports
By Marshall Poe
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Interviews with Scholars of Sport about their New Books
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CleanCarlo Rotella and Michael Ezra, eds. “The Bittersweet Science: Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside” | âBoxing has always attracted writers because it issues a standing challenge to their powers of description and imagination, and also a warningâreally a promiseâthat no matter how many layers of meaning you peel away there will always be oth | 5/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKelly Belanger, “Invisible Seasons: Title IX and the Fight for Equity in College Sports” (Syracuse UP, 2016) | As I write this, the womenâs basketball team for the University of Connecticut is in the midst of a 107 game winning streak. Itâs quite reasonable to assert that Geno Auriemma will end his career as the most successful coach⦠| 3/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTony Collins, “The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby” (Bloomsbury, 2015) | The 2017 Six Nations rugby tournament concluded this weekend. England successfully defended its championship, despite losing the last match against a strong Ireland side in DublinâEnglandâs only loss of the competition. Meanwhile, | 3/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRonojoy Sen, “Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India” (Columbia UP, 2016) | Covering sporting activities from ancient times right up to the modern day, Ronojoy Senâs Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India (Columbia University Press, 2016) is at once broad in its scope, yet detailed in its⦠| 3/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMitchel Roth, “Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo” (U. North Texas Press, 2016) | For more than 50 years, Huntsville prison put on an annual rodeo throughout the month of October to entertain prisoners, locals, and visitors from across the nation. In his new book Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas ⦠| 2/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSteve Tripp, “Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American Manhood” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016) | Many scholars of baseball and American sports have focused on Ty Cobb as an integral and controversial character in the history of baseball. However, scholars have ignored the ways in which the story of Ty Cobb intersects with ideas of⦠| 1/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCarroll Pursell, “From Playgrounds to PlayStation: The Interaction of Technology and Play” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015) | Carroll Pursellâs From Playgrounds to PlayStation: The Interaction of Technology and Play (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015) explores how play reflects and drives the evolution of American culture. Pursell engagingly examines the ways in which te | 12/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRoman Sieler, “Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets: Medicine and Martial Arts in South India” (Oxford UP, 2015) | Roman Sielerâsâ¨â¨ Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets: Medicine and Martial Arts in South India (Oxford University Press, 2015) is a fine-grained ethnographic study of varmakkalaiâthe art of vital spots, a South Indian practice that encompasses | 10/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJessamyn R. Abel, “The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan’s Global Engagement, 1933-1964” (U. o | Jessamyn R. Abelâs new book carefully traces the rise and transformations of an internationalist worldview in modern Japan, from its withdrawal from the League of Nations and admission into the UN, to successive attempts (both failed and successful) | 10/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBob Mionske, “Bicycling and the Law: Your Rights as a Cyclist” (VeloPress, 2007) | Bob Mionske is a Portland, Oregon based attorney whose practice focuses on representing cyclists. He gained his cycling experience at the highest levels, riding twice as a member of the United States Olympic racing team in 1988 and 1992. Mionske⦠| 10/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJules Boykoff, “Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics” (Verso, 2016) | Since the birth of the modern Olympics movement in the late nineteenth century, its leaders have attempted to maintain a strict separation of athletics and politics. Former International Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage once stated, | 8/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSimon Creak, “Embodied Nation: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2015) | In the introduction to Embodied Nation: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos (University of Hawaii Press, 2015), historian Simon Creak writes that Laos, a country that has never won an Olympic medal, may seem an unlikely place to⦠| 7/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNorman L. Macht, “The Grand Old Man of Baseball: Connie Mack in His Final Years, 1932-1956” (U. of Nebraska Press, 2015) | At the start of The Grand Old Man of Baseball: Connie Mack in His Final Years, 1932-1956, the third volume of Norman L. Machtâs biography of baseball legend Connie Mack, the Philadelphia Aâs which he owned and managed had⦠| 6/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanYago Colas, “Ball Don’t Lie! Myth, Genealogy and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball” (Temple University Press, 2016) | Leading up to this yearâs NBA Finals, sports media outlets offered their take on the most important storylines of the series between the Cavaliers and Warriors. Who will claim his place as the gameâs greatest current player, LeBron James orâ | 6/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRandy Roberts and Johnny Smith, “Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X” (Basic Books, 201 | Is there a figure in sports more admired and beloved than Muhammad Ali? Widely revered not only as one of boxingâs greatest champions but also as one of the rare athletes to speak out on political issues, Ali holds a⦠| 4/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHoward P. Chudacoff, “Changing the Playbook: How Power, Profit, and Politics Transformed College Sports” (U of Illinois Pre | March Madness is big business. Each year the NCAA collects $700 million for television rights to the menâs college basketball tournament, under the terms of a 14-year, $10.8 billion contract with CBS and Turner Broadcasting. The two networks, | 4/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAdam Kucharski, “The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling” (Basic Books, 2016) | Adam Kucharski, who won the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, has delivered another winner in an area rife with both winners and losers. The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling (Basic⦠| 3/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAlexander Wolff, “The Audacity of Hoop: Basketball and the Age of Obama” (Temple UP, 2015) | Alexander Wolff is the author of The Audacity of Hoop: Basketball and the Age of Obama (Temple University Press, 2015). Wolff is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. On the eve of the college basketball championship, The Audacity of ⦠| 3/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAlan McDougall, “The People’s Game: Football, State and Society in East Germany” (Cambridge UP, 2014) | In The Peopleâs Game: Football, State and Society (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Alan McDougall looks at football from the top-down and bottom-up: as a tool of the state, as forming regional identities in East Germany and in a reunified⦠| 3/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJulie Des Jardins, “Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man” (Oxford University Press, 2015) | In anticipation of Super Bowl 50, Sports Illustrated and WIRED magazines teamed up to speculate about the state of football fifty years from now, at the time of Super Bowl 100. Of course, the big question that arises when⦠| 2/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCharles Fountain, “The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball” (Oxford UP, 2015) | Gambling and sports have been in the news lately in the US. Authorities in Nevada and New York have shut down the fantasy sports operatorsDraftKings and FanDuel in their states, judging that their daily fantasy games constitute illegal gambling.⦠| 11/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDavid Zang, “I Wore Babe Ruth’s Hat: Field Notes from a Life in Sports” (University of Illinois Press, 2015) | How would you write your sports memoir? Maybe youâd recall a memorable trip to the stadium when you were young, or even getting an autograph from one of your favorite players. Was there a notable victory â or defeat â⦠| 10/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAnnie Blazer, “Playing for God: Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry” (NYU Press, 2015) | In her new book, Playing for God: Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry (NYU Press, 2015), Annie Blazer shows through archival research and participant-observation how the paradigm of sports ministry transformed from one ... | 10/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDavid Snowdon, “Writing the Prizefight: Pierce Egan’s Boxiana World” (Peter Lang, 2013) | When ESPN anchor Stuart Scott passed away from cancer this past January, he was widely hailed for his innovative style, which mixed heavy does of African American slang and pop culture references. His signature phrases are now commonly used terms⦠| 9/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDavid George Surdham, “The Big Leagues Go to Washington: Congress and Sports Antitrust, 1951-1989” (U of Illinois Press, 20 | David George Surdham is the author of The Big Leagues Go to Washington: Congress and Sports Antitrust, 1951-1989 (University of Illinois Press, 2015). Surdham is Associate Professor of Economics at Northern Iowa University. | 7/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEric Reed, “Selling the Yellow Jersey: The Tour de France in the Global Era” (University of Chicago Press, 2015) | The Tour de France is happening right now! The 2015 edition started on July 4th and will continue until July 26th. Iâm excited to be able to share this interview with Eric Reed about his new book, Selling the Yellow ⦠| 7/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJames A. Holstein, Richard S. Jones, George Koonce, Jr., “Is There Life After Football? Surviving the NFL” (New York UP, 20 | The health of former NFL players has received plenty of attention in recent years. The suicides of Junior Seau and Dave Duerson, along with stories of retired players in only their 40s and 50s affected by dementia and ALS, have⦠| 3/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJules Boykoff, “Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London” (Rutgers University Press, 2014) | A new chapter in the history of the Olympic Games appears to be opening. As one city after another has dropped out of the bidding for the 2022 Winter Games, the International Olympic Committee has been faced with the prospect⦠| 12/22/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBruce Babington, “The Sports Film: Games People Play” (Wallflower Press, 2014) | One of the most enduring film genres is the sports movie. From the earliest attempts at narrative motion pictures to the present day, movies devoted to athletic competition are both popular and lasting. In The Sports Film: Games People Play⦠| 12/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEric Allen Hall, “Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) | When he died from AIDS in 1993, Arthur Ashe was universally hailed as a man of principle, grace, and wisdomâa world-class athlete who had transcended his game. But a closer look at Asheâs life reveals a more complex picture. Certainly,⦠| 11/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStefan Rinke and Kay Schiller (editors), “The FIFA World Cup 1930-2010: Politics, Commerce, Spectacle and Identities” (Wall | The history of globalization is found in more than international political organizations and multinational corporations, free-trade agreements and foreign direct investments, satellite communications and special export zones. | 8/1/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJ.C. Herz, “Learning to Breath Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness” (Crown Archetype, 2014) | In industrial parks, converted warehouses, and pole barns across the country, a fitness revolution is taking place. Itâs a revolution, according to J.C. Herz, thatâs leading us not so much forward as back, into what she calls âthe primalâ | 7/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRoger Kittleson, “The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil” (University of California Press, 2014) a | Passion. Flair. Instinct. Improvisation. As the World Cup advances to the knockout stage, youâll hear these terms associated with the football styles of Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico rather than those of Belgium and Germany. | 6/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTravis Vogan, “Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media” (University of Illinois Press, 2014) | Last weekend was the NFL Draft, the annual event when teams select college players who have shown the talent to advance to the professional ranks. Staged at New Yorkâs Radio City Music Hall, broadcast live on two cable networks, and⦠| 5/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLucia Trimbur, “Come Out Swinging: The Changing World of Boxing in Gleason’s Gym” (Princeton University Press, 2013)) | Imagine a boxing gym. What probably comes to mind is a large, run-down room on the upper floor of an old brick building, somewhere in a trash-strewn, depressed neighborhood. The room echoes with the thud of the heavy bag, the⦠| 4/25/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLincoln Harvey, “A Brief Theology of Sport” (SCM Press, 2014) | Does God care who wins the game? According to a recent survey, plenty of American fans think so. The Public Religion Research Institute found that a quarter of fans said that they had prayed to God for a favorable outcome⦠| 4/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBrett Hutchins and David Rowe, “Sport Beyond Television: The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of Networked Media Sport” | Twenty years ago, when I was studying abroad in Europe, the only way to keep track of my teams back in the US was to sneak looks in The International Herald Tribune at the newspaper kiosk (the price of the⦠| 3/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanN. Jeremi Duru, “Advancing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in the NFL” (Oxford Un | Each year, following the end of the NFL season, there is a blizzard of activity as teams with disappointing records fire their head coaches and look for the new leader who will turn things around. This year, seven teams fired⦠| 3/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJules Boykoff, “Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games” (Routledge, 2013) | The 22nd Winter Olympics are underway. Itâs safe to say that the lead-up has not gone smoothly. Of course, there have been the obligatory cost overruns, crony contracts, displacement of locals, and environmental despoliationâall the problems we | 2/7/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSam Miller and Jason Wojciechowski, “Baseball Prospectus 2014” (Wiley, 2014) | This weekâs episode features Sam Miller and Jason Wojciechowski, editors of the Baseball Prospectusâ 2014 (Wiley, 2014), a yearbook that both previews the upcoming baseball season and provides readers a look into the state of the art in baseball | 2/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSusan Ware, “Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women’s Sports” (UNC Press, 2011) | If youâre younger than 45 or so, you probably donât remember the âBattle of the Sexes.â This tennis match, between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King, is one of the iconic moments in American history of the 1970s. It representedâ | 1/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 2013 Year-End Episode | Itâs that time of year when the panels of experts on sports call-in shows shout opinions on the best and worst of the past twelve months. To finish the year, New Books in Sports offers its own panels of experts.⦠| 12/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKevin Kerrane, “Dollar Sign on the Muscle: The World of Baseball Scouting” (CreateSpace, 2013) | Kevin Kerraneâs Dollar Sign on the Muscle: The World of Baseball Scouting (CreateSpace, 2013) represents the first major study of the history and practice of professional baseball scouting.  Based on Kerraneâs ethnographic research w | 12/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPeter Westwick and Peter Neushul, “The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing” (Crown, 2013) | The Atlantic magazine recently asked its readers to name the greatest athlete of all time. The usual suspects were present among the nominees: Jesse Owens, Pele, Wayne Gretzky, Don Bradman. Given that these were readers of The Atlantic, there were⦠| 12/2/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLindsay Krasnoff, “The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France, 1958-2010” (Lexington Books, 2012) | In 1967, an official of the French basketball federation lamented the teamâs poor finish at that yearâs European Championships in Finland. The French team finished sixth in their group of eight, and then lost in the first game of the⦠| 11/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe NBS Fall Seminar: Sports Memoirs | One of the most crowded sections of the sports library is the one devoted to autobiographies and memoirs. The shelves here are constantly adding new titles, by both legends and bit players. For instance, the past week has brought the⦠| 10/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDavid Little, “The Sports Show: Athletics as Image and Spectacle” (University of Minnesota Press, 2012) | Many fans store a vast collection of sports images in their brains. With just a momentâs glance at a picture, even a slice of the picture, they can recognize the athletes, the season, the game, the particular play that the⦠| 9/24/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPeter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann (editors), “Africa’s World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and | In 2010, for the first time, an African nation hosted the FIFA World Cup. The advertisements surrounding the tournament used graphics and sounds intended to conjure the image of a vibrant, exotic land. In fact, though, the African-ness of the⦠| 9/5/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTony Collins, “Sport in Capitalist Society: A Short History” (Routledge, 2013) | Throughout the centuries, in cultures around the world, people have played games. But it has only been in the modern age, in the last 250 years or so, that people have competed in and watched sports. Modern sports are distinct⦠| 8/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanChris Anderson and David Sally, “The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong” (Penguin, 2013) | Two guys are watching Premier League highlights, when onto the TV screen comes Rory Delap, then with Stoke City, doing one of his renowned throw-ins from the touchline directly into the box. One guy, a native of the American Midwest⦠| 8/1/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEric Simons, “The Secret Lives of Sports Fans: The Science of Sports Obsession” (The Overlook Press, 2013) | In October 2007, journalist Eric Simons sat in the stands of Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, Calif., to watch his beloved University of California Bears take on Oregon State University in football. If Cal won, it almost certainly would be ranked⦠| 7/31/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPeter Hansen, “The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment” (Harvard University Press, 2013) | Scholars have pointed to various historical ingredients they see as necessary for the development of modern sport: political changes that allowed people to form associations, the rise of competitive capitalism, | 7/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSamir Chopra, “Brave New Pitch: The Evolution of Modern Cricket” (HarperCollins, 2012) | The sixth season of the Indian Premier League recently concluded, and once again off-field problems cast light on the leagueâs growing pains. For the fifth year in a row, no Pakistani players were selected for the leagueâs teams, while otherâ | 6/17/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe NBS Summer Seminar: Sports Books for Children | What did you read as a young sports fan? Maybe the sports pages in the local newspaper, or a glossy illustrated magazine? Did your schoolâs library carry biographies of famous athletes written for children, or did you go straight to⦠| 6/4/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRon Kaplan, “501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die” (University of Nebraska Press, 2013) | WorldCat is the largest online catalog in the world, accessing the collections of more than 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories. Using the catalog, a subject search of particular sports turns up the following tally of book titles in⦠| 5/17/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMartin Kelner, “Sit Down and Cheer: A History of Sport on TV” (Bloomsbury, 2012) | I have never been to the Super Bowl, and I will probably never will. Iâve never been to a World Cup match or an Olympic event. Iâve never been to the Final Four or the Rose Bowl. Iâve never been⦠| 4/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSimon Martin, “Sport Italia: The Italian Love Affair with Sport” (I.B. Tauris, 2011) | Azzurri, cyclists, boxers, Berlusconi, Balotelli, strapping Fascist men preparing to bear arms, strapping Fascist women preparing to bear children, the shirtless Duce, Ferraris, Vespas, doping scandals, World Cup celebrations, | 3/29/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAndrew Zimbalist, “In the Best Interests of Baseball: Governing the National Pastime” (University of Nebraska Press, 2013) | In 2008, when entertainment magnate Lalit Modi launched the Indian Premier League, he took a title that was new to the world of cricket: Commissioner. Modiâs idea for the structure of the IPL had American origins. He had studied in⦠| 3/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDennis Deninger, “Sports on Television: The How and Why Behind What You See” (Routledge, 2012) | Did you watch the game last night? No matter if you live in Australia, England, India, Ontario, or the US, chances are youâve heard that question today. Televised sports are a constant presence in contemporary culture, providing a common set⦠| 2/19/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSteven Riess, “The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime: Horse Racing, Politics, and Organized Crime in New York, 1865-1913 | In the classic 1973 film The Sting, Robert Redford and Paul Newman lead a team of con men in an elaborate scam to take revenge on a dangerous crime boss and a corrupt cop. The final play takes place in⦠| 1/31/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDavid George Surdam, “The Rise of the National Basketball Association” (University of Illinois Press, 2012) | This past October, David Stern announced that he would step down as commissioner of the National Basketball Association in February 2014. In Sternâs three decades at the helm, the NBA has seen its domestic fortunes rise and ebb. Television ratingsâ | 1/8/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDave Gluck, “Rhythms of the Game: The Link Between Musical and Athletic Performance” (Hal Leonard, 2011) | âAround 380 BC, the Greek philosopher Plato wrote in the Republic about the idealized society as having a âunited influence of music and sportâ where its people âmingle music with sport in the fairest of proportions.â â from | 12/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBrett Bebber, “Violence and Racism in Football: Politics and Cultural Conflict in British Society, 1968-1998” (Pickering & | This past September an independent panel commissioned in 2009 by the British government released its 395-page report on the Hillsborough Stadium disaster of April 1989. The published findings and the accompanying release of documents confirmed what had... | 11/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDeclan Hill, “The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime” (McClelland & Stewart, 2010) | Today we are talking to Declan Hill about his new book The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime (McClelland & Stewart, 2010). Most of my research focuses on corruption and the link with organized crime. I have read commissions of inquiry,⦠| 11/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAndrei Markovits and Emily Albertson, “Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States” (Temple University Press, 2012) | My wife is a sports fan. Together, we have cheered from the stands at college football games and track meets, for local minor-league baseball clubs and hockey teams. Weâve spent Sunday afternoons watching the National Football League, | 11/9/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDonald Spivey, “‘If You Were Only White’: The Life of Leroy ‘Satchel’ Paige” (University of Missouri Press, 2012) | Of all American sports, baseball has contributed the greater number of folk heroes to the larger culture. Fictional characters of awe-inspiring ability, like the mighty Casey and Roy Hobbs, or quirky sages such as Casey Stengel and Yogi Berra are⦠| 10/25/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanChris Cooper, “Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat: The Science Behind Drugs in Sport” (Oxford University Press, 2012) | This past August, the saga of Lance Armstrong came to its inglorious end. The seven-time champion of the Tour de France and Olympic medalist ended his defense against charges that he had engaged in blood doping during his cycling career.⦠| 10/9/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTheresa Runstedtler, “Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line” (University of Californ | In the history of American sports, few athletes were as famous and hated in their day as Jack Johnson. The first African American boxing champion, Johnson was an astonishingly brash figure who flouted the prejudices held by white Americans. His⦠| 9/24/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGuy Fraser-Sampson, “Cricket at the Crossroads: Class, Colour and Controversy from 1967 to 1977” (Elliott & Thompson, 2011) | During the 1960s attendance fell at cricket grounds across England. Just as the Church of England lost members in droves in the same period, it appeared that this other pillar of English tradition was becoming irrelevant amidst the social and⦠| 9/8/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLaurent Dubois, “Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France” (University of California Press, 2011) | There are few moments in recent sports history as riveting, perplexing, and widely debated as Zinedine Zidaneâs head-butt to Marco Materazzi in the final match of the 2006 World Cup. Think of your own reaction when the referee stopped play⦠| 8/24/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGreg de Moore, “Tom Wills: First Wild Man of Australian Sport” (Allen and Unwin, 2011) | A number of modern sports are credited to a particular 19th-century founder. The inventive work of some of these figures, like basketballâs James Naismith, American footballâs Walter Camp, and judoâs Jigoro Kano, is firmly planted in histor | 8/17/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLisa Bier, “Fighting the Current: The Rise of American Women’s Swimming, 1870-1926” (McFarland, 2011) | American women dominated the swimming competition at the London Olympics, earning a total of sixteen medals in seventeen events. This template of success was set already at the 1920 Games, the first Olympics in which American women swimmers competed. | 8/10/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKate Buford, “Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe” (Bison Books, 2012) | If you watched the U.S. broadcast of the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony, you may have heard Matt Lauer and Bob Costas mention Jim Thorpe during Swedenâs entrance. Thorpe, arguably the best all-around athlete in U.S. history, won Olympicâ | 8/1/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe NBS Summer Seminar: Understanding the Olympic Games | The 2012 London Olympics are here. To mark the event, New Books in Sports offers another of its occasional seminar episodes. And as with any great seminar, youâll be eager to tell people what youâve learned.  Our slate of Olympicâ | 7/26/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDavid Davis, “Showdown at Shepherd’s Bush: The 1908 Olympic Marathon and the Three Runners Who Launched a Sporting Craze” | 26.2 is one of the most recognizable numbers in sports. It is also a curious number. The length of the marathon race is the only distance in track that is still measured in English units. Yards have become meters. The⦠| 7/19/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBrian Ingrassia, “The Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Education’s Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football” (University | During this week of the 4th of July, itâs appropriate to mark Americaâs national holiday with a podcast about that most American of sports: college football. As past guests on the podcast have explained, widely followed, | 7/6/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKevin Young, “Sport, Violence and Society” (Routledge, 2012) | The one play of my football career that my father remembers most fondly came in my very first game, when I was eleven years old. Younger and smaller than the other players, I was positioned out of harmâs way at⦠| 6/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTimothy Grainey, “Beyond ‘Bend It Like Beckham’: The Global Phenomenon of Women’s Soccer” (University of Nebraska Pre | Two days before this yearâs Champions League final between Chelsea and Bayern Munich, the top two womenâs clubs in Europe played on the same pitch, at Munichâs Olympic Stadium, in the final match of the Womenâs Champions League. In aâ | 6/22/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDavid J. Leonard, “After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness” (SUNY Press, 2012) | The NBA Finals are under way, with the Oklahoma City Thunder facing the Miami Heat. Network executives and the sports punditocracy are elated with the match-up. Ratings for Game 1 of the series were up more than 10 per cent⦠| 6/15/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJohn Fox, “The Ball: Discovering the Object of the Game” (HarperCollins, 2012) | There are a lot of balls in my house. Baseballs, soccer balls, tennis balls, footballs, basketballs, volleyballs. We have Wiffle balls, Nerf balls, and Super Balls. My children and I occasionally use the balls for their intended purposes. We play⦠| 6/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe NBS Spring Seminar: Understanding European Football | Itâs springtime in the American Midwest. The playoffs for the NBA title and hockeyâs Stanley Cup are moving into the later rounds, and the new baseball season has already produced history-making performances and rising stars. But the students in | 5/15/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRobert Lipsyte, “An Accidental Sportswriter: A Memoir” (Ecco, 2011) | In the summer of 1957, Robert Lipsyte answered a classified ad. He was an English major who needed some cash, and The New York Times was looking for an editorial assistant. He went to work on the night shift⦠| 5/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPaul Dickson, “Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick” (Walker & Company, 2012) | Mention the name Bill Veeck to a baseball fan and what will likely come to mind is the back-and-white image of three-foot, seven-inch Eddie Gaedel at the plate of a Major League game, swimming in his St. Louis Browns uniform,⦠| 4/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRobert K. Fitts, “Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan” (University of Ne | There are three Americans in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. One is Horace Wilson, the professor of English who brought his students outside for a game in 1872, thus introducing baseball to Japan. Another is Wally Yonamine, the Hawaii-born⦠| 4/23/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRandy Roberts, “A Team for America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) | Two weeks from now the National Football League will hold its annual draft of college football players. For the leagueâs teams, the draft is the chance to re-stock their rosters with fresh young talent, basing their choices on reams of⦠| 4/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNicholas Evan Sarantakes, “Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War” (Cambridge UP, 2010) | As a young, patriotic American, I was torn by the boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. On the one hand, I knew already as an eleven-year-old, long before Ronald Reagan had uttered the phrase, that the Soviet Union⦠| 4/6/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPaul Watson, “Up Pohnpei: A Quest to Reclaim the Soul of Football by Leading the World’s Ultimate Underdogs to Glory” (Pr | Coming to terms with the limitations of our own sporting achievement is one of the hardest things many of us have to do in life. A couple of years ago, after one too many serious injuries, I realised that I⦠| 3/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRichard Wilson, “Inside the Divide: One City, Two Teams, the Old Firm” (Canongate, 2012) | Alabama-Auburn. Maple Leafs-Canadiens. Boca Juniors-River Plate. Carlton-Collingwood.Fenerbahce-Galatasaray. Great rivalries are the catalysts of national sporting cultures. They are the high point of a season, | 3/22/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGideon Haigh, “Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents” (Victory Books, 2010) | During his tenure as a university lecturer, the novelist (and former football goalkeeper) Vladimir Nabokov instructed his students that the reader of literature needed three things: imagination, memory, and a dictionary. | 3/15/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMary Louise Adams, “Artistic Impressions: Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport” (University of Toronto Pres | On the Minnesota rinks where I spent many days of my childhood, the skates made the manâor the boy, to be more accurate. Hockey skates had a boot of tough leather and a reinforced toe to protect against sticks and⦠| 3/8/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJohn Bloom, “There You Have It: The Life, Legacy, and Legend of Howard Cosell” (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010) | Howard Cosell was fond of saying that American television in the 1970s was dominated by three Câs, representing each of the broadcast networks: revered CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite, NBCâs late-night talk show host Johnny Carson, | 2/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPeter Millward, “The Global Football League: Transnational Networks, Social Movements and Sport in the New Media Age” (Palg | Itâs the English Premier Leagueâs birthday! On this day twenty years ago, all twenty-two clubs of the First Division resigned from the 104-year-old Football League and declared their plans to create a new, breakaway league. | 2/20/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStephen Mumford, “Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion” (Routledge, 2011) | Here is a quiz. What is your idea of the perfect sports-watching experience: a) watching your team crush its rival in a one-sided, humiliating contest, or b) watching two top-quality opponents, neither of which you support, in an epic, closely⦠| 2/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRoy MacGregor, “Wayne Gretzky’s Ghost: And Other Tales from a Lifetime in Hockey” (Random House Canada, 2011) | For years, the morning skate was a Christmas Day ritual for my father and me.After the presents had been unwrapped and before the morning service, my dad and I walked to the nearby city park and took to the ice.⦠| 2/6/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAndrew Ritchie, “Quest for Speed: A History of Early Bicycle Racing 1868-1903” (Cycle Publishing, 2011) | As several guests on this podcast have told us, sports have been fundamentally connected with the major developments of modern history: urbanization, class conflict, imperialism, political repression, globalization. | 1/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAdrian Burgos, Jr., “Cuban Star: How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball” (Hill and Wang, 2011) | The integration of baseball is most often cast in terms of black and white, but biographer Adrian Burgos, Jr.â a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaignâ is out to change that. In his new biography, entitled Cuban Star: ⦠| 1/26/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDennis Frost, “Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan” (Harvard UP, 2011) | In the celebrity firmament that circles around us, sports stars are among the brightest lights. Kobe, Tiger, Messi, Márta, Sachin, and Serena can be recognized from most points on the globe.But other stars are visible only in certain lands: Yunaâ | 1/24/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRandy Roberts, “Joe Louis: Hard Times Man” (Yale UP, 2010) | âIâm sure if it wasnât for Joe Louis,â acknowledged Jackie Robinson, âthe color line in baseball would not have been broken for another ten years.â To Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis was an inspiration and an idol. âI just give | 1/17/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe New Books in Sports 2011 Year-End Book List | I am a fan of the end-of-the-year, double-size issues of magazinesâfull of photographs, lists of the best and worst of the year, notable quotes, and vignettes about the yearâs events. This weekâs podcast follows in the spirit of those year- | 12/9/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAndrei Markovits, “Gaming the World: How Sports Are Shaping Global Politics and Culture” (Princeton UP, 2010) | âWe live in the age of globalization, with the interconnection of markets, technology, and cultures making the world a smaller place.â Sure.Tell that to the guys on my local sports radio show. For them, the world is bounded by the⦠| 11/22/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRonald Reng, “A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke” (Yellow Jersey Press, 2011) | On November 10, 2009, Robert Enke stepped in front of an express train at a crossing in the German village of Eilvese. At age 32, Robert left behind a young family: he and his wife, Teresa, had just adopted a⦠| 11/11/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDavid Potter, “The Victor’s Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium” (Oxford UP, 2011) | The Victorâs Crown brings to vivid life the signal role of sport in the classical world. Ranging over a dozen centuriesâfrom Archaic Greece through to the late Roman and early Byzantine empiresâDavid Potterâs lively narrative shows how | 11/1/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJorge Iber, “Latinos in U.S. Sport: A History of Isolation, Cultural Identity, and Acceptance” (Human Kinetics, 2011) | The 107th World Series is underway, with the St. Louis Cardinals and the Texas Rangers vying for the championship of Major League Baseball. The Cardinalsâ star, Albert Pujols, has already entered the record books, | 10/26/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTeddy Jamieson, “Whose Side Are You On?: Sport, the Troubles, and Me” (Yellow Jersey Press, 2011) | Hereâs a sport quiz for you. Name a world-class athlete who hailed from the state of Nebraska: an Olympic champion, a hall of famer, someone who was among the very best at his or her game. (And no sneaking over⦠| 10/17/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJennifer Ring, “Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball” (University of Illinois Press, 2009) | Itâs October. In the American sports calendar, that means itâs time for the baseball playoffs. My team, the Minnesota Twins, wasnât even close this year, going from first place last year to the cellar this year. But I gained some⦠| 10/10/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDave Zirin, “The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment that Changed the World” (Haymarket Books, 2011) | There are beautiful sports photos, and dramatic sports photos. There are sports photos that are funny, and others that are poignant. There are photos that capture athletic brilliance, and tenacity, and passion. But there are few images from the modernâ | 10/4/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKay Schiller and Christopher Young, “The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany” (University of California P | This past summer Germany hosted the 2011 FIFA Womenâs World Cup. The 32 matches drew more than 800,000 fans, while the total number of foreign tourists visiting Germany increased by nine per cent over the previous summer. The German governmentâs | 9/26/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanScott Brooks, “Black Men Can’t Shoot” (University of Chicago Press, 2009) | With the NBA in the midst of a labor disagreement, players from the worldâs premier basketball league are scattering in different directions to maintain their skills (and get paid). This past summer, a number of NBA players returned to their⦠| 9/19/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAllen Guttmann, “Sports and American Art from Benjamin West to Andy Warhol” (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011) | When I was a kid, I used to pore over an illustrated history of American sports that I had received as a birthday gift. The oversized, hardcover book featured some of the iconic images of 20th-century sports: Lou Gehrig standing⦠| 9/12/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAndrew Morris, “Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan” (University of California Press, 2010) | My Little League baseball career spanned the late Seventies and early Eighties. During those summers, I always set aside the afternoon in August when the championship game of the Little League World Series was broadcast on ABCâs âWide World ofâ | 8/31/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSteve Bloomfield, “Africa United: How Football Explains Africa” (Canongate Books, 2010) | A couple of days ago I had an unusual experience. I was staying in a hotel in Kampala, with a stunning view of the southern reaches of the Ugandan capital and the northern edge of Lake Victoria. It was the⦠| 8/23/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJohn Eric Goff, “Gold Medal Physics: The Science of Sports” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2009) | The instructor of my freshman physics course fit the stereotype of a physics professor: unkempt white hair, black glasses case in the breast pocket of his short-sleeved shirt, thick German accent, and a tendency to mumble to himself while mulling⦠| 8/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEvander Lomke and Martin Rowe, “Right Off the Bat: Cricket, Baseball, Literature & Life” (Paul Dry Books, 2011) | Last springâs Cricket World Cup was a major global event. Estimates of the television audience for the final matches ranged from 400 million to one billion, while the website ESPNcricinfo.com had an average audience, | 8/9/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTony Collins, “A Social History of English Rugby Union” (Routledge, 2009) | Most modern sports have some creation myth that usually links them to an almost-sacred place of origin. Baseball has its Cooperstown. Golf its St. Andrews. Basketball its Springfield College. If you are a football fan, whether of the All Blacks⦠| 7/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTodd Denault, “The Greatest Game: The Montreal Canadiens, the Red Army, and the Night that Saved Hockey” (McClelland & Stew | When sports fans list the greatest games, they talk about close contests, outstanding performances, and dramatic finishes. Think of game six of the 1975 World Series between the Red Sox and the Reds, or Boston Collegeâs 47-45 win over the⦠| 7/5/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLee Congdon, “Baseball and Memory: Winning, Losing, and Remembrance of Things Past” (St. Augustine’s Press, 2011) | âIsnât it funny?â once mused Buck OâNeil, the sage of Negro League baseball. âEverybody remembers going to their first baseball game with their father. They might not remember going to their first day of school, . . . or theirâ | 7/5/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDon Van Natta, Jr., “Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias” (Little, Brown, and Company, 20 | My older daughter is twelve years old. Like many girls her age, she has spent countless hours on the soccer field. She has played volleyball and run cross-country at her school. She was the catcher for her Little League baseball⦠| 6/23/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMichael Oriard, ” Brand NFL: Making and Selling America’s Favorite Sport” (UNC Press, 2010) | It is the summer of discontent for fans of the National Football League. What will they do if team owners and players cannot reach a labor agreement before the fall season? The satirists at The Onion have offered their speculations⦠| 6/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCharles Clotfelter, “Big-Time College Sports in American Universities” (Cambridge University Press, 2011) | Corruption in big-time college sports recently claimed another victim: Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel. Once regarded as a paragon of integrity, Tressel is now seen as one more example of a coach who recruited star players and built⦠| 6/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGavin Mortimer, “The Great Swim” (Walker Books, 2008) | I have the habit of reacting audibly when reading good works of non-fiction. Members of my household and strangers on airplanes have been startled by my hmms and huhs of surprise, my ews and ughs of disgust, and my wows⦠| 5/31/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanChuck Korr, “More Than Just a Game–Soccer vs. Apartheid: The Greatest Soccer Story Ever Told” (Thomas Dunne Books, 2010) | Chances are, if you were one of the 700 million people who watched the 2010 World Cup, you likely heard mention of the soccer games that prisoners on Robben Island played during the decades of apartheid rule. The stories of⦠| 5/26/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKurt Kemper, “College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era” (University of Illinois Press, 2009) | When we think of sports and the Cold War, what typically comes to mind are steroid-fueled East German swimmers, or the Sovietsâ controversial basketball win at the Munich games, or Mike Eruzioneâs game-winning goal in 1980 (or Paul Hendersonâ | 5/20/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanErik Jensen, “Body by Weimar: Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity” (Oxford UP, 2010) | Hereâs a simpleâor should we say simplistic?âline of political reasoning: communities are made of people; people can either be sick or healthy; communities, therefore, are sick or healthy depending on the sickness or health of their people. | 4/1/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAram Goudsouzian, “King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution” (University of California, 2010) | I imagine the guys who first faced Bill Russell felt like I did when I had to guard Antoine Carr in high school. I âheldâ Carr to 32 points. But no dunks! Russellâs opponents in college and the NBA rarely⦠| 10/12/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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