sports

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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.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  5-2-17
  

  Adam Jones Abuse Highlights Boston Sports’ Complicated History With Race

  Seven decades after the first black player joined the majors, the sport is still suffering from bouts of racism.

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• 10-24-16
  

  6 Great World Series!

  by Mark Weisenmiller

  For over one hundred years, major league baseball’s World Series has both thrilled fans and reflected historical and societal changes in the United States.

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• SOURCE: NYDailyNews
  2-8-16
  

  When black athletes can't win: Attacks on Cam Newton are consistent with how the white establishment has always treated African-American stars

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  We shouldn't judge Newton's behavior more harshly than other players who have acted in similar ways.

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• 1-18-15
  

  The Myth of Neutrality in American Sporting Culture

  by Ron Briley

  As you sit comfortably in front of your television before the championship game, take a moment to think about the images of militarism associated with the contest.

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• 5-25-14
  

  You Know Jackie Robinson, but Shouldn't We Remember Moses Fleetwood Walker, too?

  by Michael H. Ebner

  Moses Fleetwood Walker should not be regarded as a trivial footnote.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10-12-13
  

  Redskins’ Owner Stubbornly Clings to Wrong Side of History

  The New York Times likens Daniel Snyder to George C. Wallace in his decision to keep the name "Washington Redskins" in the N.F.L.

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• SOURCE: SABC News
  9-24-13
  

  Black History Not Reflected in New Rugby Museum: Nkohla

  Local rugby players believe the newly opened rugby museum in Cape Town does not properly portray black influence.