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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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• 4/3/2022
  

  The Integration of College Hoops Came through Many Small Shining Moments

  by Chad Carlson

  Cutting the nets in New Orleans, the Kansas Jayhawks follow the legacy of many players and coaches who gradually chipped away at racial exclusion in college basketball. 

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  3/28/2022
  

  Baseball's Labor War

  by Peter Dreier

  Organizing the Brotherhood of Professional Base-ball Players in 1885, John Montgomery Ward asked whether team owners could treat their players as chattel through the "reserve clause." Today's players seem to be learning some similarly radical lessons from the recent owner's lockout.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  2/7/2022
  

  Baseball Players Can't Live on a "Cup of Coffee"

  by Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier

  Framing the baseball lockout as a battle of billionaire owners vs. millionaire players misses the fact that most players who ever reach the big leagues won't make great salaries, garner endorsements, or get a league pension. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/14/2022
  

  The Public Will be the Ultimate Judge of Whether the Olympics Soften China's Image

  by Michael J. Socolow

  China is doing all it can to use the winter games as a statement of its belonging in the world community. It will be up to the viewers to ask critical questions about the media coverage and spectacle.