New Books in Sports
Interviews with Scholars of Sport about their New Books
- Website
- http://newbooksnetwork.com/category/politics-society/sports/
- Description
- Interviews with Scholars of Sport about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-11-17 12:07
- last episode published
- 2024-11-17 09:00
- publication frequency
- 11.89 days
- Contributors
- Marshall Poe
- Owner
- Marshall Poe
- Author
- marshallpoe@gmail.com (Marshall Poe)
- Managing editor
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- Number of Episodes
- 434
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Professional Sports & Recreation
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-11-17 | In Michigan Vs. Everybody: Inside the Wolverines’ 2023 National Championship Season (Triumph Books, 2024), The Detroit News' Angelique Chengelis expertly retraces an unforgettable championship season. Featuring in-depth reporting and an unforgettable c... |
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| 2024-11-09 |
Seth E. Jenny et al., "Routledge Handbook of Esports" (Routledge, 2024) The Routledge Handbook of Esports (Routledge, 2024) offers the first fully comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of esports, one of the fastest growing sectors of the contemporary sports and entertainment industries. Global in coverage, the book empha... |
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| 2024-11-02 |
Mirin Fader, "Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon" (Hachette, 2024) It’s now the norm for NBA and collegiate teams to have international players dotting their rosters. The Olympics are no longer a gimme for Team USA. Both via fans streaming from all over the globe and leagues starting in countries throughout the world,... |
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| 2024-11-01 |
Richard Moss, "Tale of Two Halves: The History Of Football Video Games" (Bitmap Books, 2024) Painstakingly researched and written by football-obsessed writer and experienced game journalist, historian, and documentarian Richard Moss – author of Bitmap's own The Secret History of Mac Gaming – A Tale of Two Halves: The History Of Football Video ... |
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| 2024-10-27 | In The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (UNC Press, 2024), Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva offer an existential challenge to one of America's favorite pastimes: college football. Drawing on twenty-five in-depth inte... |
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| 2024-10-25 |
Larry E. Holmes, "Win or Else: Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921–1985" (Indiana UP, 2024) In Win or Else: Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921-1985 (Indiana University Press, 2024), Larry E. Holmes shows us how Soviet football culture regularly disregarded official ideological and political imperatives and skirted the boundaries betwe... |
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| 2024-10-18 |
Brad Balukjian, "The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania" (Hachette, 2024) In 2005, Brad Balukjian left his position as a magazine fact-checker to pursue a dream job: partner with his childhood hero, The Iron Sheik (whose real name was Khosrow Vaziri), to write his biography. Things quickly went south, culminating in the Shei... |
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| 2024-10-07 |
Jamie Michaels and Doug Fedrau, "Christie Pits" (Dirty Water Comics, 2019) A gritty ride through Toronto's immigrant neighbourhoods, Christie Pits (Dirty Water Comics, 2019) tells the incredible true story of when young Jewish and Italian immigrants squared off against Nazi-inspired thugs on the streets of Toronto. This is th... |
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| 2024-09-30 | A compelling work that explores the lives and aspirations of young footballers with deep nuance and insight, The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon (Berghahn Books, 2022) shows how precarious m... |
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| 2024-09-10 | In her incisive study Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity (Ohio State University Press, 2020), Jennifer Domino Rudolph analyzes major league baseball’s Latin/o American players—who now make up mo... |
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