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
- 2025-02-27 15:18
- last episode published
- 2025-02-26 09:00
- publication frequency
- 11.88 days
- Contributors
- Marshall Poe
- Owner
- Marshall Poe
- Author
- marshallpoe@gmail.com (Marshall Poe)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 443
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Professional Sports & Recreation
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-02-26 | The evolution of basketball, and much of the social and cultural change in America, can be traced through one powerful act on the court: the slam dunk. The dunk's history is the story of a sport and a country changed by the most dominant act in basketb... |
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| 2025-02-08 |
Stan Bunger, "Mornings with Madden: My Radio Life With An American Legend" (Triumph, 2024) John Madden is synonymous with football. He was the television face and voice of the nation's most popular sport, the namesake of its best-selling sports video game, and the man with the highest career winning percentage of any NFL coach. Despite his i... |
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| 2025-01-18 | Michael Ray Richardson was a star in the making. After a stellar collegiate career at the University of Montana, where he was voted first team All-Big Sky Conference as a sophomore, junior, and senior, the future seemed bright. Taken fourth overall in ... |
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| 2024-12-27 | John Eglin talks with Jana Byars about The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency (Oxford UP, 2023). Gambling captures as nothing else the drama of the "long eighteenth century" between the age of religious wars and ... |
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| 2024-12-20 |
Neil Atkinson, "Transformer: Klopp, the Revolution of a Club and Culture" (Canongate, 2024) How did Jurgen Klopp change Liverpool? In Transformer: Klopp, the Revolution of a Club and Culture (Canongate, 2024), Neil Atkinson, host of The Anfield Wrap tells the story of Klopp’s time at the football club and in the city. The book ranges widely, ... |
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| 2024-12-17 |
Bob Kuska, "Balls of Confusion: Pro Baskelball Goes to War (1965-1970)" (From Way Downtown, 2024) Balls of Confusion: Pro Basketball Goes to War(1965-70)Â is the first of a two-part story about one of the most transformative events inpro basketball history: the war between the National Basketball Association and its challenger the American Basketbal... |
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| 2024-12-16 |
Postscript: Violence, Consent, and Coercion in American Football Last week, the press focused on what the press repeatedly characterized as an “ugly” fight between American college football players that broke out after the University of Michigan beat The Ohio State. But another story received less attention. Medrick... |
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| 2024-12-02 | In this first episode of a three-part series called Voices, we’re listening to the sound of American football—specifically the role of voices in the NFL. We start with a rather quirky story from NFL history that speaks to how the voice intersects with ... |
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| 2024-11-25 | Football is the national game in the United States – and many families and friends bond over their love of the sport. While few people play professional football, many participate in tackle football as children and adolescents. In the last decades, mor... |
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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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