Irreverent, cynical, and surprisingly erudite, Chas Smith tells us time and time again that he hates being a surf journalist and despise the surfing industry....

Quin joins nine other scholars in a critical examination of Switzerland’s sports history...

Out of the carnage of World War II comes an unforgettable tale about defying the odds and finding hope in the most harrowing of circumstances...

What roles has the game played in the lives of individuals and communities of Asian Americans in the United States?

In our conversation, we discussed the origins of Olympism’s moral claims, the nexus between sport and human rights, and why it can be hard to understand the human costs of contemporary mega-events....

At first, Miles Furling plays football to fit in. By eighth grade he realizes that he is both gay and a football player...

For eight years, "The Hall Ball" went on a journey to have its picture taken with every member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, both living and deceased...

The Baltimore Stallions. Fans loved them. Then they were no more...

Shanghai’s status as a bustling, international place both now and in the past hardly needs much introduction, although the centrality of horse racing to the earlier incarnation of the city’s cosmopolitanism is less known...

Iber and Longoria the origins of Latino American football, the role of World War II and the Civil Rights movement in expanding opportunities for Latino sportsmen, and the ongoing obstacles to Latino participation in the game that many love....

Maduro was greatly responsible for the Cuban League’s recognition by professional baseball (in the US)....

Lottie Dod was the greatest female athlete of all time. And you've never heard of her...

Alamillo illustrates how sports intersect in the making of a Latina/o identity, civil rights activities, and community...

A ‘success habit’ point of view. Learn the secrets behind success, and what it takes to remain on top...

The edited volume is not only an at times ethnographic dive into Middle Eastern sports’ multiple facets but also in many ways a mapping of how much remains to be explored....

Bachynski examines American football from its origins from the perspective of a public health specialist and an historian...

Rudolph analyzes major league baseball’s Latin/o American players—who now make up more than twenty-five percent of MLB...

The game, as Davies notes, was not just something imposed upon Natives in locales such as the Indian Industrial Training School in Haskell, Kansas (and elsewhere). The game provided linkages to the Native past...

Do streaks exist?

Harney argues that baseball was not necessarily a place for the formation of a Taiwanese nationalist identity, nor was it a space for colonial resistance to the Japanese, but instead it was a site for mutual engagement and cultural genesis with the Japanese...

Downey examines the role that lacrosse played and continues to play in the construction of settler-colonial and indigenous identity in Canada...

Gelber examines several athletes through the prism of the “Cobra Effect, ”a phenomenon that occurs when an attempted solution to a problem results in an unintended consequence...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Nathanson examines the life of Jim Bouton, a journeyman pitcher whose 1970 book, “Ball Four,” was a lightning rod for controversy and became one of the best sports books of all time....