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Abstract: I liked you way more than I liked Lamonica …To appreciate the magnitude of Daryle Lamonica's popularity with Buffalo's ethnic, working-class fan base, it is necessary to start with the Kemp-Lamonica controversy's denouement. No football game in local memory matched the anticipation for the mid-October tilt between the Buffalo Bills and Oakland Raiders at War Memorial Stadium. What set this contest apart was that it featured two quarterbacks, Jack Kemp and Daryle Lamonica, who had been until March teammates and rivals in a quarterback controversy, when Lamonica was traded to the Raiders. With Lamonica's return to Buffalo, now as an opposing QB, the game became a can't-miss event. Fans scooped up tickets faster than ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "Oh gosh! It's so masculine!" Kristin Mayer recalls thinking about the "tri-suit" worn by multiple Ironman world champion Paula Newby Fraser when she first saw Fraser race in person.1 As the San Diego–based, white heterosexual triathlete and designer tells it in a 2019 oral history, the masculinity of women's triathlon apparel motivated Mayer to design her own triathlon "kit" (clothing and accessories) and launch a label, Betty Designs, in 2010.2 She was not alone. A global community of women coalesced around the Betty Designs aesthetic, while other women triathletes established women's sportswear brands between 2004 and 2012, citing similar concerns. The discursive synergies and tensions apparent in their parallel ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Whether on the VHS tapes of yesteryear or in contemporary digital formats, the "skate video" has been the dominant medium of skateboarding for the better part of four decades. Skate videos are nonfiction accounts of the sport—documents—but it is a stretch to call them documentaries. With the notable exception of the late 411 Video Magazine series, skate videos almost exclusively focus on the action and performance of the sport, not on biography, critique, commentary, history, or any similar themes one expects from the documentary format. For the hundreds of skate videos that have appeared over the years, there are precious few good documentaries about skateboarding, making the recent Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: On Tuesday, March 29, 1927, "a marvelous sunny day," Major Sir Henry O'Neal de Hane Segrave hurtled down the hardpan sands of Florida's Daytona Beach in his 1,000-horsepower Sunbeam Mystery S to establish a new world land speed record.1 He was the first man to break the seemingly impossible 200 mph barrier.2 On his first run, from south to north, Segrave drove 200.668 mph; on the return trip in the Slug,3 as the car became affectionately known, Segrave produced a speed of 207.615 mph—for an average of 203.792 mph. He had shattered the existing world record by more than 28 mph, immediately becoming "the fastest man in the world." His achievement was hailed in every major newspaper in England and in over 1,200 papers ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In the introduction to Jackie Robinson's reissued autobiography, I Never Had it Made (1995), cultural critic Cornel West begins: "Here is a great American hero who refuses to be a mythical hero. Instead, he tells the painful truth about himself as a human being—someone who, like all of us, needs love, struggles with insecurity, makes mistakes, revels in achievements, and weeps in sorrow."1 In many ways, West could have written a similar introduction for Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr., who, like Robinson, uses the 2022 documentary They Call Me Magic to deconstruct the mythology and the man, one engaged in both political and community activism because of what he could do on the court and the opportunities that talent ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In the Netflix Original Series, Colin in Black and White, NFL-quarterback-turned-social-activist Colin Kaepernick narrates a reenactment of his racialized experiences growing up in predominately white Turlock, California. Kaepernick, an adopted biracial teenager, takes the audience on a tour of his teenage years, which shaped his identity and led to his NFL protest. As a Black male and former athlete who attended predominately white schools, I saw a lot of my experiences represented throughout the series. Similar to Kaepernick, I experienced difficulty playing under white coaches, at times felt isolated from the Black community, and experienced difficulties with dating. Some may criticize this series for being ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Boxing is a Darwinian enterprise, with victory going to the most athletic, fit, and skilled rival over their opponent. In Nazi concentration and death camps, however, winning meant survival, with the incapacitated loser being gassed or shot after the contenders brutalized each other without wearing gloves. For the SS guards and officers, such pugilistic spectacles provided entertainment, an opportunity to gamble, and contrived confirmation that their ethnic, political, racial, and religious enemies were so depraved they would sacrifice their comrades to obtain extra food and less strenuous work assignments. Although the winners remained alive if they could continue to triumph, the fate they meted out to those whom ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Alison Bechdel has long been an aficionado of exercise, as she chronicles in her graphic memoir The Secret to Superhuman Strength. In her drawings and text, Bechdel—best known for her long-lived comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For" as well as her graphic memoir Fun Home—examines some of the reasons for her pursuit of jogging, cycling, skiing, martial arts, and nearly every exercise trend of the last sixty years: stress relief and a desire to look like Charles Atlas. There are also deeper reasons for the fitness habit: Bechdel looks for control, inner calm, one-ness with the world, and flow. Throughout the decades, Americans suited up for jazzercise and spinning to train their bodies, of course, but also for ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In mainstream US sporting discourse, the contributions of Mexicans and Mexican Americans are often ignored or underappreciated, whether as participants, fans, or journalists. In this work, José M. Alamillo examines the multidirectional development of the Mexican diasporic sporting culture that permeated both sides of the US-Mexico border in the first half of the twentieth century and continues to wield a significant impact on US sporting culture today.Deportes centers on the transnational development of Mexican sporting culture in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. Alamillo focuses on the Mexican diaspora, also known in some intellectual circles as "Greater Mexico," and how "Mexican ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: For most scholars, the idea that politics and sports have always occupied separate spheres is an ahistorical fallacy. Although the refrain has been trumpeted by such high-placed figures as International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Avery Brundage, the notion has been roundly debunked by historians. Cold War Olympics: A New Battlefront in Psychological Warfare, 1948–1956 by Harry Blutstein adds yet another voice to this chorus. Blutstein demonstrates that international politics profoundly shaped the ways in which the Olympics were interpreted, organized, and consumed during the first decade of the Cold War. In essence, the games were transformed into an ideological battlefield. Athletes, officials, coaches, and ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In 1981, the South African rugby team toured New Zealand, and the tour is remembered for the thousands of New Zealanders who took to the streets to demonstrate against the Springboks. Large numbers of protesters were arrested, games were interrupted, violence occurred, and two matches were canceled due to security concerns. Derek Catsam suggests the tour is "arguably the most controversial politicized sporting event or series of sporting events in history" (xxiii). A relatively large body of scholarly and popular publications focuses on the 1981 tour, protests, and their aftermath. The Springboks were unable to fly home on the traditional route via Australia and instead went straight to tour the United States. ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Followers of professional football in the United States will be hard-pressed to have missed the increasing number of women who have taken to the field as coaches and officials. Off the field, as scouts and as senior figures in football operations, women continue to make their mark on the sport. However, the history of women's involvement in the sport continues to be sparse. Hail Mary fills a significant gap by uncovering the history of the National Women's Football League (NWFL), a league that existed between 1974 and 1989. The authors are journalists who focus on the intersection of sports, gender, and sexuality. Their background means that the book is eminently readable and is suitable for both academic audiences ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The intersection of Britain's military and civilian worlds during wartimes has received no shortage of attention. Yet these explorations largely overlook or underplay the role of sport. What distinguishes Peter Donaldson's text is his analysis of how sporting language and imagery were used to both shape and reveal popular understandings of military service and war. His emphasis on sporting metaphors as cognitive tools that entangled war with cultural values, thereby evoking emotional responses to conflict by blurring literal and figurative boundaries, is particularly revealing. "Packaging conflict in the language and imagery of sport," Donaldson observes, "helped to promote self-sacrifice on the frontline, sustain ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: John D. Fair and David L. Chapman offer readers a fascinating and hefty (466 pages) volume showcasing the history of muscles in the motion picture industry. The authors are interested in the human body and the intersections of physical culture, athleticism, and filmmaking. Each author has spent many years researching and documenting the history of physical culture and athletic bodies, and this volume complements their earlier research while laying the groundwork for future studies in these areas.A central focus of the volume concerns the shifting ideals of illusion and reality in the spectacle of filmmaking. The authors note that "all art involves illusion and our willingness to surrender to it," and they help ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Anyone engaged in competitive sports wants to win, but how are winners determined' With stick-and-ball sports, it is by scoring more points than the competition. For motorized sports, it is by finishing ahead of all others, sometimes, in the current era requiring electronic timing and video, by 1/1000 of a second. For track and field, swimming, and most winter sports, there are also occasions where timing must be consulted to determine placement. It is among this latter group of sports where Jonathan Finn brings the reader along for a unique analysis of how photo-finishes and timing evolved.In Beyond the Finish Line: Images, Evidence, and the History of the Photo-Finish, Finn "emphasizes the complexity of the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Janice Forsyth's Reclaiming Tom Longboat is an enlightening exploration of Canadian sport told through the lens of a national award, including a critical study of colonization through physical activity, all the while not discounting the self-determination of Indigenous peoples. As others have previously noted, Forsyth is a leader in the study of the Indigenous sport history of Canada, and this work should be the canon when discussing books on Indigenous athletics or any type of sport award.The book begins with a foreword by Willie Littlechild, a recipient of the Tom Longboat award in 1965, providing a meaningful context of what is to come in the comprehensive investigation undertaken by Forsyth. Investigation is ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: If this book serves as a reader's first entry into the perils of college athletics, they will not be able to look at any sporting event the same. Special Admission coincides with the timing of Operation Varsity Blues, the college acceptance scandal orchestrated by Rich Singer. Kirsten Hextrum contends the fact that families have been paying for their children to be admitted to schools for decades based on false athletic careers is not a big transgression as college admissions have always been "rigged" (xi). She begins the book by assessing the rise of Caylin Louis Moore, a Black male football player from Los Angeles who attended Texas Christian University. He later became a Rhodes Scholar in 2017. Such an honor led ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Roller Derby has a long and fascinating history. It began as an endurance fad in the 1930s, a Depression Era entertainment, and then transformed into a full-contact game with an appeal to both in-person spectators and television audiences. Yet it eventually evolved into a women's sport with a feminist do-it-yourself mentality. Michella M. Marino's Roller Derby: The History of an American Sport expertly weaves a chronological story of this trajectory, providing a "contextual history of the sport through a critical feminist lens" (5). This contextualization is bolstered by one of the strongest parts of this text: Marino's use of oral history interviews from a variety of people involved with the sport from a number of ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In Women, Horse Sports, and Liberation, Erica Munkwitz examines British women's involvement in equestrianism from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. In chronological order, she examines British women's participation in horse sports and how such involvement shaped—and was shaped by—gender, social, cultural, and sporting ideals. Muntwitz begins presenting women's participation in hunting, relating it to the sporting revolution in Britain, which spanned 1772 to 1825. Women have a long history of participating in hunting, and the late eighteenth century was an era of widespread and talented female horsemanship. Yet female numbers decreased in the first part of the nineteenth century as a consequence of the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The tiny island of Independent Samoa (pop. 200,000) is literally brimming with elite football talent. According to one statistic, athletes of Samoan descent are forty times more likely to play in the NFL than any other demographic group. Some of the brightest stars include Jesse Sapolu, Junior Seau, Troy Polamalu, Marcus Mariota, and Tua Tagovailoa. The most recent member of this fraternity to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame (HOF) was Polamalu in 2020. Wearing a vibrant purple lei draped over his newly pressed gold jacket, the ex-Steeler safety cited his Polynesian roots as the reason for his football success: "I come from a culture where discipline, humility, and respect are not only the foundation ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The game of tennis, for many years somewhat neglected by sport historians, has recently become the focus of greater attention among academics. Its global importance has been significantly underlined in the forty-five wide-ranging chapters contained in the 2019 Routledge Handbook of Tennis: History, Culture and Politics. One of the leading themes in the developing literature on tennis has been the complex, fluctuating relationship between amateurs and professionals. In the early years of lawn tennis during the late nineteenth century, with the game spreading rapidly across large parts of the world, the amateur notion that it should be enjoyed for itself and not for financial reward developed a powerful hold. The ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The stated goal of Amos Alonzo Stagg: College Football's Greatest Pioneer is to be a definitive biography from birth to death. The picture Summer paints is of an honest and highly competitive man. Longevity is the theme, both in Stagg's career and life. The challenge of the book is that Amos Alonzo Stagg lived for 102 years and had a major impact on college football, the University of Chicago, and to a lesser extent, baseball, basketball, and other schools. How can the definitive biography be written of such a man in a mere 220 pages'The book is mostly organized chronologically, with some diversions to talk about interesting and impactful players Stagg had and the sports besides football that he coached. The story ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In recent years, scholars have considered many facets of British sports. They have gone beyond the simple narrative of great moments and characters from the worlds of football, cricket, and rugby to consider the ways in which the British military used sports in its training programs. Other studies have introduced readers to the way that noncombatant British men used sport to validate their masculinity during World War II and to examine the role of sport in the expansion of the British Empire and how men from Trinidad and Nigeria used proficiency in sport to assert their refusal to acquiesce to their colonial status. Occasionally, those studies alluded to women's role, but only in rare cases have the experiences of ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
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