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SOURCE: New York Times
1/12/2023
Why Won't Her College Honor "Queen of Basketball" by Renaming its Arena?
Luisa Harris didn't just lead the Delta State Lady Statesmen to three consecutive championships in the early 1970s. She helped integrate the basketball program and the college. Is that the reason why her name and image are so conspicuously absent today?
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
12/18/2022
The Qatar World Cup is History
by Laurent Dubois
The World Cup, more than any previous version, symbolizes the contradictions of the joy of play being entangled with nationalism, global capitalism, and repressive theocratic autocracy.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/9/2022
Is Messi the Avatar of a Post-Macho Argentina?
by Brenda Elsey
Lionel Messi's tenure at the top of the soccer world has coincided with an upsurge of feminism in Argentina and its sports culture, changes Messi has quietly supported.
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12/11/2022
Kyrie Irving Just the Latest Outspoken Athlete to Go Rogue
by Greg Kaliss
It's entirely fair for the Nets' guard to face criticism for his boosting of an antisemitic film, but the uproar carries the risk of silencing athletes who might otherwise use their public platforms for political advocacy.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/24/2022
Despite Defeat, Iran's Footballers Won
by Golnar Nikpour
Iranian players' show of solidarity with protesters facing government repression has been more important than the results on the pitch.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/22/2022
Eastern Europe Brought Soccer Into the Modern Age. Why is it a Wasteland Now?
A legacy of innovation spurred by Hungarian clubs in the 1930s and 1950s sustained high quality soccer in eastern Europe through the fall of communism, but changing economic and social currents have diminished the competitiveness of former eastern bloc countries in today's big-money game.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
11/20/2022
Qatar Isn't The First Regime to Polish its Image With a World Cup
Despite "disappearing" 30,000 political opponents, FIFA allowed Argentina's military dicatorship to host the 1978 World Cup.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/9/2022
Ora Washington was a Champion in the Segregated World of Tennis, But Died in Obscurity
Dominant in African American tennis (and basketball) competition, Washington never had the opportunity to test her ability against the champions of the white tennis establishment.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/4/2022
Corporate America Copied the NFL's "Rooney Rule"—But Also its Lack of Enforcement
The NFL teams' agreement to interview minority candidates for coaching jobs always had a fault: nothing happened to teams who abused the process and interviewed candidates with no intention of hiring them.
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SOURCE: Al Jazeera
9/28/2022
"Misogynoir" Exemplified in the Degradation of Black Women Athletes
by Donald Earl Collins
The treatment of basketball star Brittney Griner by Russian authorities (and the indifference to her case by many Americans) shows that Black women athletes still have to navigate a world of racism and sexism that diminishes their achievements and their security.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/20/2022
National Archives Exhibition Challenges the Meritocratic, Democratic Myths of American Sports
Sports have long served as a means of inculcating the values of the dominant groups in American society, and sometimes to challenge them. The first sports-related exhibition at the National Archives Museum curates documents and artifacts to tell the story.
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SOURCE: Christianity Today
9/20/2022
"Passion Plays": The Overlap of Sports Fandom and American Christianity
by Paul Emory Putz
A reviewer notes that a new book by a leading interpreter of American evangelical culture may raise important awareness about the wonderment and faith inherent in sports fandom, but leaves out some discussion of how sports support an increasingly masculinist Christianity.
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SOURCE: Athletic Director U
8/1/2022
The Power 5 Conferences Should Split Revenues with College Football Players
by Victoria Jackson
Another college football season means another chance to demand that universities and the NCAA recognize a fundamental fact about the dangerous and isolating work performed by players: they are not student-athletes, but employees of the football team.
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SOURCE: YouTube
8/3/2022
Remember Vin Scully With His Classic Call of the Last Outs of Sandy Koufax's Perfect Game
The legendary broadcaster's ability to say just enough to frame the drama of a moment without overshadowing it was on full display on September 9, 1965 at Dodger Stadium.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
8/31/2022
What Made Bill Russell a Hero
Sportswriter Jemele Hill writes that Russell was a model for later activist athletes because he rejected silence and sought to build solidarity with others.
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SOURCE: Slate
8/1/2022
Bill Russell's Greatness Was Unfathomable
by Jack Hamilton
"Bill Russell wasn’t just everything we should want out of people who play sports; he was everything we should want out of public figures, an absurdly gifted human being who understood there was a world outside those gifts and who set himself to help change it."
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SOURCE: CNN
8/1/2022
What Bill Russell's Troubled Relationship with Boston Tells Us about Racism
by Peniel E. Joseph
Russell always insisted on exposing the extent of prejudice and discrimination, and refused to settle for acclaim as an athlete as a substitute for respect as a person.
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7/3/2022
Excerpt: INAUGURAL BALLERS: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Women’s Basketball Team
by Andrew Maraniss
“Win this game,” Billie Moore told her team, “and it will change women’s sports in this country for the next twenty-five years.”
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How We Told the Ongoing Story of Title IX
by Laura Mogulescu
A curator and her team chose to center the work of activists who pushed to determine the scope and meaning of Title IX's prohibition on sex discrimination in education throughout the law's 50-year history. Their exhibit is now open at the New-York Historical Society.
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SOURCE: New York Historical Society
4/7/2022
"Title IX: Activism On and Off the Field" Coming to NYHS in May
The exhibition features images, objects, and documents drawn from New-York Historical’s Women’s Sports Foundation and Billie Jean King’s archives.
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