By Russ Crawford “Its been a defining year for women’s sport.” The headline on a site known as The Mixed Zone, which claims to be “bringing the best women’s sports stories online,” caught my eye when I saw the tweet from The Women’s Sport Trust on December 15. There had been several significant events in…
By Roberto José Andrade Franco During the last 2 decades since Mike Tyson was a household name—even if infamous—any talk of boxing comes with what seems like a pre-required statement of its death. Granted, boxing, at least in this country, is not among the top sports it was a century ago. But neither is…
By Colleen English Without World Cup or Olympic tournaments, many might not consider 2017 to be a significant year for women’s soccer (a sentence I write with full awareness that these kinds of things are rarely said about major men’s sports). Germany’s Olympic victory at the 2016 Games and the US women’s national team’s (USWNT)…
By Andrew Pettit This Boxing Day (yesterday, December 26), like many millions of other Canadians, I sat on a couch surrounded by friends and family partaking in a very typically Canadian thing to do: watching hockey. Every year I cannot help but fall for the hype – promoted endlessly on TSN during the weeks leading…
Tamir Bar-On. Beyond Soccer: International Relations and Politics as Seen through the Beautiful Game. Lanham and New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017. 340 pages (including selected bibliography, index, and author information) US$35.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Patrick Salkeld As sport historians know, politics and sports coexist in the same spheres. Athletes, such as Colin Kaepernick or…
Marmins, David J. and Steven K. Feit. Appalachian State Silences the Big House: Behind the Greatest Upset in College Football History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2017. Pp. x + 263. 37 photos & illustrations, chapter notes, bibliography and index. $25.00 softcover. Reviewed by Zachary R. Bigalke One of the reasons why college football remains so…
Oates, Thomas P. Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2017. Pp. 213. $95.00 hardcover, $23.36 e-book. Reviewed by Brett L. Abrams In Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL, Thomas P. Oates challenges the cultural politics of the National Football League. Oates uses…
9-MAN (2014). Directed by Ursula Liang. Centre for Asian American Media. Corporation got Public Broadcasting. 89 minutes. Reviewed by Tom Fabian I first heard of the sport of 9-Man in high school, while playing indoor volleyball for a club called Toronto West, located near the edgy intersection of Jane and Finch. T-West, as it’s referred…
Adam J. Criblez, Tall Tales and Short Shorts: Dr. J, Pistol Pete, and the Birth of the Modern NBA. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. Pp. xii + 299. Photos, notes, select bibliography, and index. $38 hardback. Reviewed by Christopher R. Davis In his monograph, Tall Tales and Short Shorts: Dr. J, Pistol Pete, and…
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