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Race-ing the NFL: How Anti-Black Standards Are Built into the 2015 Concussion Settlement

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Overshadowed by August’s unprecedented wildcat strikes in professional sports, an equally significant labor action went relatively unnoticed. On […]

Guest November 1, 2020 football, healthcare, law, mental health, race, sports, whiteness

Ballin’ and Fightin’ Back: Sport and Possibilities for Social Change

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The Kenosha police’s seven bullets in the back of Jacob Blake were yet another very clear sign of […]

desiballer September 28, 2020 basketball, race, sports

Defund the NCAA: The Potential Role of Athletic Activism in Reforming College Sports

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College athletes could accomplish decades worth of activism in far less time because the NCAA has never been more vulnerable than it is at this moment in history.

Guest August 4, 2020 college sports, coronavirus, labor, politics, sports

The NCAA Should Cancel the Football Season

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A disaster looms as the college sports association looks to cash in once again.

Zack Furness July 10, 2020 college sports, coronavirus, politics, sports, Uncategorized

The Ultimate Competitor Leaves Behind a Complicated Legacy

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Kobe is the NBA career leader in only one stat: missed shots. What could be more fitting?

Adam E. Gallagher February 4, 2020 African American history, basketball, race, sports

Rapinoe the Great, Russian Doll, Anatolian Psych-Rock, and Socialism: ToM’s Best of 2019

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We all know the year sucked, but there was some amazing stuff to read, hear, and watch. Our picks.

Guest December 30, 2019 Best of, Best of the Year

The Unbearable Whiteness of Paul Goldberger’s Ballpark

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Goldberger’s book unintentionally reveals that baseball is a representation of America — in its everyday realities of discrimination, exclusion, and inequality.

Seth S. Tannenbaum July 22, 2019 American Studies, baseball, cities, gender, race, segregation, sports

Melvin Williams: My First Love

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I didn’t know what soccer was actually. I was coming home from school one day and saw a poster on the wall that they were having tryouts. I told my mom that I wanted to try out.

Romeo Guzman May 7, 2019 California, football, oral history, public history, soccer, sports, sports soccer, The Other Football

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