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Book Review: Richard A. Macales reviews LA Sports: Play, Games and Community in the City of Angels. Wayne Wilson and David Wiggins' new book includes 15 essays addressing a broad range of topics -- from socially elitist “Figure Skating in California” to racially exclusionary “Never Go Back: Pasadena Racial Politics and the Robinson Brothers.”
New Post: John E. Price on Phil Mickelson's blunder at the US Open and the written -- and sometimes unwritten -- rules of golf.
New Post: Richard C. Crepeau’s “Sport and Society” column is back again. This post was originally published on June 11, 2018.
New Review: Peter Marquis reviews Claude Boli's 2016 biography of Mohamed Ali. First printed in Transatlatnica, re-posted with permission
New Review: Bob D’Angelo reviews Amy Eadington book on the intervention of perhaps the largest baseball minor league and reminds us of the struggles of tearing down the color line in professional baseball.
New Post: Richard C. Crepeau’s “Sport and Society” column on the NFL's new national anthem policy.
New Review: Murry Nelson reviews The Rebounders by Amanda Ottaway, a unique story of playing D1 basketball at Davidson College.
New Post: Again we share Richard C. Crepeau’s “Sport and Society” column, this one on NFL cheerleaders.
New Post: The editors sat down to ask Amy Bass about her book On Goal - the tale of Somali refugees, high school soccer, and the predominantly white town of Lewiston, Maine - its lessons for our current political moment, and her advice for historians working on similar topics.
New Post: The editors sat down to ask Amy Bass about her book On Goal - the tale of Somali refugees, high school soccer, and the predominantly white town of Lewiston, Maine - its lessons for our current political moment, and her advice for historians working on similar topics.
New Post: Richard C. Crepeau returns with a general roundup of recent sporting events from the perspective of a sport scholar.
New Review: Richard A. Macales reviews Looking Up: From the ABA to the NBA, The WNBA to the NCAA by Jim O'Brien, a memoir on a career covering basketball across all levels and locations.
New Post: Merlin Chowkwanyun speaks with #NBAHistorianTwitter about the NBA Playoffs for the first Historian’s NBA Playoffs Roundtable.
And it's dang good y'all.
New Post: Cat Ariail on Becky Hammon, the potential of the first woman head coach in the NBA, and a reminder that, whether or not Hammon gets the job in Milwaukee, will not solve the conundrum of "looking at the men's game as a step up."
Book Review: Jorge Iber reviews U.S. History Through Baseball, Babicz and Zeiler's new work that "seeks to present readers with a single tome that uses the sport as a mechanism with which to examine and clarify a wide array of topics on American history."
New Post: Some of our editors sat down with Jesse Berrett, author of Pigskin Nation, on the relationship between sport and politics and the challenging of unraveling such topics in such a fraught political environment.
New Book Review: Mitchell McSweeney reviews Jeremy Withers and Daniel P. Shea's collection of essays that explores Culture on Two Wheels: The Bicycle in Literature and Film.
