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...

1978 was the year that changed San Francisco forever..

White chronicles the development of black college football in the twentieth century, and is among the first comprehensive histories of black college athletics...

In "Playing for Australia," Thompson investigates the Asian context of some of Australia’s earliest international soccer matches...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

In "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers," Cohan investigates “the behavior of American sports fans to understand (its) cultural relevance beyond mere consumerism.”

Sweet relates the horror of terrorism, the pain of losing the most controversial championship game in sports history to a hated rival, and the consequences of the players’ decision to shun their Olympic medals to this day...

Ruck addresses the paradox of Samoan accomplishment in American football.

The game of basketball is not necessarily associated with Mexicans or Mexican Americans...

Hay offers an extensively researched account of indigenous participation in Australian Rules Football from the origins of the game through the early twentieth century...

Heggie talks about the history of biomedical research in extreme environments...

In The Anthropology of Sport, understandably, the authors enlighten us about what the subfield entails, how anthropology is well suited to dissect the nature of sport, and provide us with ample anecdotes and observations of the world of sport through an ‘anthropological gaze.’

In the late ’90s and early 2000s, the Portland Trail Blazers were one of the hottest teams in the NBA...

In "Hockey," Hardy and Holman offer a comprehensive and engaging history of the fastest game from it’s origins in a series of stick based contests, including early hockey, bandy, and polo through to the development of our contemporary commercial hockey best exhibited by the NHL and KHL.

Elsey and Nadel uncover the hidden history of the arrival of physical education for girls in the late-nineteenth century,

Wrigley Field is one of a handful of sports stadiums to have transcended its athletic purpose to become a true American landmark...

Donnelly focuses on the 1985 New York baseball season, a season like no other since the Mets came to town in 1962...

In "Whatever It Takes," Mersiades offers an insiders account into the Australian bid, unpacking the political and personal ambitions that drove the process...

Bocketti takes on the traditional nationalist narrative of Brazilian football, which suggests that their successful teams of the interwar and postwar era, which occurred following the shift from foot-ball to futebol in Brazil, arose from the countries specific cultural and racial heritage...