Andrew R.M. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Sport Management and History at Nichols College in the booming metropolis of Dudley, MA. He earned a PhD in History from Purdue before arriving at Nichols, where he now happily teaches a wide variety of sport-centric courses while also designing and teaching online sport history courses for other institutions, including the Indiana University and University of Wyoming systems.

The author of No Way But to Fight: George Foreman and the Business of Boxing (University of Texas Press, forthcoming) his other scholarly contributions can be found in journals such as the Journal of Sport History and International Journal of the History of Sport, as well as edited collections including Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century, Wiley-Blackwell’s Companion to American Sport History, and Philly Sports: Teams, Games, and Athletes from Rocky’s Town. Correspondence to andrew.smith@nichols.edu is always welcome and Twitterers are encouraged to follow @andrewrmsmith.