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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/2/2022
As the Washington Football Team Rebrands, Remember an All-Native Pro Team from 100 Years Ago
Walter Lingo started the "Oorang Indians" in Ohio to promote his dog kennels, hired Jim Thorpe to play and coach, and launched an episode of sports history that highlights the tradeoffs Native athletes had to make between opportunity and participation in caricatured performances of "Indianness."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/20/2021
The Century-Long History of the College Football Coaching Carousel
by Andrew McG
Mass media helped build the lucrative world of college sports by establishing sports as a news beat; today's highly-paid and transient coaches ride the wave of an economy that thrives on making a splash in the headlines.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/13/2021
Ryan Russell: Jon Gruden Emails Should Have Shocked Me. They Didn't
"The long delay in disclosing these emails, coupled with their conversational nature, suggests that others in the N.F.L. are, at best, tolerant of these divisive views. At worst, they share them."
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SOURCE: Public Seminar
10/6/2021
Don't Feel Guilty for Loving Football (Just Be Honest About It)
by Stephen T. Casper
"Football is not going away, so don’t feel guilty above loving the game. But do stop quibbling about whether football is dangerous—and be radically honest about how dangerous it is."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
8/2/2021
Texas and Oklahoma's Move to the SEC is a Major Blow to the NCAA
by Andrew McGregor
The move by two power programs in college football will create a Southeastern Conference that rivals the NCAA in power, part of a longstanding battle between individual colleges and the NCAA that may overthrow the rules of amateurism in college sports.
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7/4/2021
Carl Nassib's Coming Out Will Save Lives; How Many Depends on the NFL's Support
by John Howard
Carl Nassib just became the first active NFL player to come out as gay. His personal courage shouldn't obscure the work of previous activists or the obligation of the league to take positive steps to fight homophobia.
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SOURCE: Texas Monthly
3/7/2021
A University of Texas Report Will Find That ‘The Eyes of Texas’ Has “No Racist Intent”
A University of Texas Commission's report will likely serve as reinforcement for the administration's decision to keep the tradition of playing "The Eyes of Texas" after football games, pleasing many rich donors and angering student activists.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/6/2021
Conservative Donors Have Their Own Cancel Culture
"In 1903, the two students premiered their song at an annual campus minstrel show, where white musicians performed it in blackface. It became a tradition at subsequent minstrel shows and was soon embedded in the university’s culture. Some people apparently want to keep it there forever."
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SOURCE: Texas Tribune
3/1/2021
“UT Needs Rich Donors”: Emails Show Wealthy Alumni Supporting “Eyes of Texas” Threatened to Pull Donations
A number of wealthy University of Texas alumni have threatened to withhold donations unless "The Eyes of Texas," a song with roots traced to blackface minstrelsy and the Lost Cause mythology, is reinstated as the Longhorns' postgame anthem.
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SOURCE: The Nation
2/23/2021
Japanese Internment, Football, and a Legendary Team
Dave Zirin's Edge of Sports podcast hosts Bradford Pearson, the author of "The Eagles of Heart Mountain," the story of a group of interned Japanese American teens whose football team dominated the state of Wyoming.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/5/2021
The Buccaneers Embody Tampa’s Love of Pirates. Is that a Problem?
by Jamie L.H. Goodall
"Perhaps time has dulled us to the atrocities committed by these 17th and 18th century outlaws. Or perhaps it’s the fact that if pirates of the Golden Age were bloodthirsty, so too were the nations who opposed them."
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
8/12/2020
As College Football Grapples with the Coronavirus, it also Confronts its Racist History
by Bennett Parten
It's no coincidence that the south is the heartland of college football. The region first embraced the game as an expression of southern honor culture. While southern colleges were slow to adopt integrated rosters, today's Southeastern Conference teams rely heavily on the unpaid labor of Black players.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
8/11/2020
Black College Athletes are Rising up Against the Exploitative System they Labor In
by Amira Rose Davis
While athletes’ collegiate activism in the 1960s and 1970s produced limited wins, today’s movement echoes many of the still-unanswered demands of that time.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
7/28/2020
Playing College Football in 2020 Would Continue to Devalue Black Lives
by Eddie R. Cole
In many ways, the disproportionate number of black student-athletes preparing for their football seasons have become the figurative lab mice as some college leaders assess the feasibility of in-person classes.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
7/28/2020
History Meets Mythology: Debate Stirs over Push to Rename T.C. Williams High School, of ‘Remember the Titans’ Fame
Thomas Chambliss Williams served as superintendent of Alexandria City Public Schools from the 1930s to the 1960s. He resisted integration, argued black and white students learn differently and fired a black cafeteria worker when she joined a NAACP lawsuit compelling Alexandria to end segregation.
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SOURCE: Baltimore Sun
7/15/2020
University of Texas won’t Drop Song with Racist History as Players Requested
University of Texas athletes had demanded that the university cease to use the song, which has roots in racist minstrelsy and the words of Robert E. Lee, as an anthem.
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SOURCE: WTOP
7/13/2020
Where Did The Term ‘Redskins’ Come From?
Monday’s announcement that the D.C. region’s football team would be abandoning the Redskins brand marks the end of a decadeslong push to shift the team away from the historically racist and oppressive term.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
7/3/2020
A Brief History of The Word ‘Redskin’ And How It Became a Source of Controversy
Its origins extend back to the 18th century, long before it became the name of a football team.
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SOURCE: Boston Globe
6/23/2020
Cancel the Fall College Football Season
by Victoria L. Jackson
For too long, instead of facilitating the intellectual advancement and economic empowerment of young Black men, college sports have helped make American universities another institution perpetuating the undervaluing of Black lives.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/6/2020
Myron Rolle, now a doctor treating coronavirus patients, draws on football background in crisis
Myron Rolle’s hands are used to moving from one unalike task to another. He has batted away footballs and wielded a blade in neurosurgery with equal deftness at the top levels, so dealing with the novel coronavirus would be just another stretch, if not for an unsettling major difference: He is being asked to play without a helmet.
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