How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Block painstakingly recovers the origins of baseball games through a close reading of a wide variety of 18th-century sources including newspaper clippings, novels, and diaries...

In Hinkie's view, the best way to reach first was to embrace becoming the worst -- to sacrifice wins in the present in order to capture championships in the future. And to those dubious, Hinkie had a response: Trust The Process, and the results will follow...

During his twelve years in Ann Arbor, Beilein became the program's all-time winningest coach, reached two national championship games, won four Big Ten championships and produced eight NBA first-round draft picks...

Gems provides readers with an extensive overview of how the diverse stakeholders of the metropolis have "used" sport in their neighborhoods (as well as the broader community) to claim their share of athletic life in the Windy City...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

In "CTE, Media, and the NFL," Bell, Applequist and Dotson-Pierson use media theory to unpack reporting on CTE.

From humble beginnings as the son of immigrant parents growing up in Brooklyn, Holzman paved a path of excellence at every level...

How does the world of book reviews work?

Blincoe offers a beautifully narrated and written history of a century of conflict between pre-state Jews and Palestinians and Israeli Jews and Israeli Palestinians after the establishment of the state...

Gilles recovers the history of women’s cycle racing in the 1890s...

A combination of Charles Kuralt and Lawrence Ritter, Balukjian’s work examines 14 baseball players pulled from a pack of 1986 Topps baseball cards...

The 1949-50 CCNY Beavers basketball team were one of the unlikeliest of champions in sports history...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Phillips crafts a compelling narrative sure to delight baseball fans and historians of the human sciences alike...

Smith shows that from his upbringing in Houston’s Fifth Ward to his role as a spokesman for the Foreman Grill, Foreman always fought to redefine himself along with the times...

Given that the majority of the athletes in the major sports (read that to be football and men’s basketball) are African American, what type of recompense are they getting for their toil and sweat on the gridiron and the hardcourt?

Veri and Liberti the origins of tailgating in the United States, the way that tailgate gender roles changed throughout the 20th century; the interplay between the gender of tailgaters, cooking technologies, and food ways of tailgating; and the future possibilities and current limitations of the tailgating community...

In "Gaelic Games on Film," Crosson traces out the use of Irish sports in Irish, American, and British cinema.

Friss historicizes the bicycle’s place in New York City’s social, economic, infrastructural and cultural politics...

The thriving metropolis of Chicago was the land of opportunity for a wide variety of ethnic groups...

Earl Campbell was a force in American football...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Alou started playing organized baseball late in life (early teens), endured poverty and hardship in his native Dominican Republic, and then helped to break down barriers of language and perception throughout his long career on the field and in the dugout...

Scofield argues that rodeo performance has also long-been a means of asserting “Western-ness” for people excluded from narratives about the region...