sports

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• SOURCE: The Sportsman
  6/22/2020
  

  On this Day in 1938, Joe Louis and Max Schmeling Went to War

  Although his title fight with Joe Louis was treated as a symbol for both racial conflict and the looming battle between fascism and democracy, the German heavyweight was relieved to be dumped as a mascot of the Nazi party after a decisive loss to the African American champion.

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• SOURCE: Carleton Newsroom
  5/19/2020
  

  Carleton History Professor Wins Medals at Powerlifting Nationals

  Carleton University history professor Jennifer Evans was introduced to competitive powerlifting by a student and has moved to international competition.

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• 5/10/2020
  

  “The Last Dance” is the ‘Presidential Historian’ of Documentaries

  by Jason Steinhauer

  Viewers have embraced the ESPN Documentary "The Last Dance" as an escape and the best sports "fix" around. But its framing of leadership reflects a serious issue: the limits of how American media presents history.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/10/2020
  

  A History of Soccer in Six Matches

  From the Hungary team that shattered England’s delusions to the club that came to define the sport, through Pelé and Johan Cruyff, here are six games that explain modern soccer.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/10/2020
  

  Women’s Soccer Was Having a Moment. Then the Clock Stopped.

  As the coronavirus pandemic forces soccer clubs and sponsors to tighten their belts, a women’s game poised to break out hopes it doesn’t have to bear the cost.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/11/2020
  

  U.S. Soccer Apologizes For Saying Male Players Have 'More Responsibility' Than Women

  The soccer federation made the claims in hopes of convincing a federal court in California to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit filed by members of the 2019 World Cup championship team.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  10/7/19
  

  The NBA's cowardice on China

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  "The NBA just threw Hong Kong under the bus, purely for the sake of the almighty dollar. And if that’s not outrageous, I don’t know what is."

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• 5/9/19
  

  Protesting with her Feet: The World’s Fastest Middle-Distance Woman versus Sports Governing Bodies

  by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie

  A deeper look into athletics, gender, and Caster Semenya. 

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• 3/24/19
  

  Is Shoeless Joe Jackson Innocent? The Black Sox Scandal 100 Years Later

  by Granville Wyche Burgess

  As another baseball season begins, the history of baseball's biggest scandal and how its legacy legacy still shapes the sport today. 

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• 1/13/19
  

  Lots of People Won New Rights in the 1960s, but Not College Women Athletes

  by John Thelin

  Although the 1960s has been celebrated as a period of concern for equity and social justice, colleges showed scant concern for women as student-athletes.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-25-18
  

  200 Years On, U.K. Hunts for Grave of Man Called World’s 1st Black Sports Star

  One of London’s main rail stations is being redeveloped, prompting the excavation of a burial ground containing the remains of an estimated 45,000 Londoners, including the boxer Bill Richmond, a freed American slave.

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• 10/21/18
  

  Remember When the Dodgers and Giants Moved West?

  by Lincoln Mitchell

  This was one of the consequences.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  5-3-18
  

  UNC Rejects Faculty Panel’s Finding That Administrators Interfered in Critic’s Class on Sports

  Jay Smith, a history professor at the U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has long accused the university of trying to interfere with his teaching of a class on college sports.

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• 3-26-18
  

  March Madness and the Lengths People Have Been Willing to Go to Try to Reduce Uncertainty

  by Chad Carlson

  As this historian of the sport shows, it’s an old story.

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• 3-26-18
  

  When Mississippi Basketball Was Integrated. (Sort of.)

  by Luther Spoehr

  It was in 1963. And for the first time the all-white Bulldogs of Mississippi State agreed to play an out-of-state team including black players.

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• 4/29/18
  

  Why We Think of Babe Ruth as an Overgrown Boy and Why We’re Wrong

  by Edmund F. Wehrle

  What this historian learned by reexamining Ruth’s life from a racial and gender perspective.

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• 3/25/18
  

  Before Kap and Ali There Was Baseball’s Dr. Wimbish

  by Adam Henig

  He helped desegregate spring training.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  1-12-18
  

  Sports Historian Explains Why She Wrote that the NCAA is the Modern Jim Crow

  Victoria Jackson’s claim appeared in an explosive op-ed for the Los Angeles Times.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  1-2-18
  

  The Forgotten Origins of Politics in Sports

  by Kenneth Cohen

  Black athletes didn’t “politicize” American sports. They’ve been a battleground from the very beginning.

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• SOURCE: Christianity Today
  

  God and the Gridiron Game

  by Paul Putz and Hunter Hampton

  America's obsession with football is nearly as old as the game itself.