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Race and Protest: A Confession from Global Sports Cultures
I hadn’t intended to write about this, but recent events have made feel compelled to do so. First, the public displays of solidarity by athletes—from the St. Louis Rams on November 30 to Knox College...
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Writing the Sporting Body
This semester, I’m excited to be teaching two sports-related courses in the same semester for the first time. First, I’ll once again be teaching “Cultures of Basketball.” I taught it for the first...
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Why We Should Have a Sports Studies Major
I’ve been fortunate to get to expand my repertoire of courses in sports studies over the past few years from Cultures of Basketball to Global Sports Cultures to Writing the Sporting Body. In this...
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That's a Bad Prof Right There
A couple of clips from last night’s Yago’s A-Town Throwdown, the 2015 Cultures of Basketball intra-class 3 on 3 tournament, without further commentary. Filed under: Basketball, Higher Education, Jimmy...
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One Shining Moment: Yago’s A-Town Throwdown Edition
Probably anyone reading this knows by now that my Cultures of Basketball course ends with a student organized intra-class 3 on 3 tournament. What started as an off-hand comment by a UM basketball...
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How to Write the Sporting Body: A Report from the Classroom
How do you write what is taking place in the picture above? Or, what sorts of challenges does athletic performance present to those who would try to capture or convey it in writing? This was the...
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In Praise of Inefficiency and the Incalculable
Much has been written in recent days about the Cleveland Cavaliers improbable victories over the Golden State Warriors in Games 2 and 3 of the NBA Finals. The Warriors, the NBA’s best team during this...
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The Triangle Myth
In thinking about basketball culture, I’ve found it useful to think about certain recurrent themes, images, metaphors and topics of discussion as myths. I don’t mean “myths” in the sense of...
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A Case for Studying Sports
Yesterday, in a large, public meeting with university colleagues from a variety of disciplines that was devoted to a discussion of intercollegiate athletics, especially as these pertain to academics,...
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Teaching Values: Coaching the Right Way
In the wake of my posts last week exploring some of the history, assumptions and implications underlying various aspects of coaching, I had a great conversation with Nick Houseman at BBallBreakdown....
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