Aiello, Thomas. Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022. Pp. 304. $34 paperback and e-book. Reviewed by Łukasz Muniowski Writing a comprehensive history of anything is a hard task, one requiring much discipline, devotion… and selection. Establishing what made a particular historical activity or development what it…
Approximately one year after ‘The Last Dance’ captivated sports’ fans across the globe, guest contributor Łukasz Muniowski revisits the docuseries and deconstructs its mythologies. By Łukasz Muniowski Much has already been written about The Last Dance, the award-winning ESPN/Netflix documentary miniseries by Jason Hehir. As such, there is hopefully no need to explain in detail multiple…
By Noah Cohan, Guest Contributor “There hasn’t been an original joke, really—on the internet, sports related—in about two years” –DJ Gallo We live in the age of the Crying Jordan “thinkpiece,” and this is one. Like a lot of Twitter users, I have liked and retweeted many images featuring Michael Jordan’s sad face over the…
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