Albert J. Figone is a professor emeritus of kinesiology and a former head baseball and assistant football coach at Humboldt State University. He answered our questions about his new book […]
Category: sports history
College gambling on NPR’s Only a Game
The January 26, 2013, edition of NPR’s syndicated program Only a Game featured an interview with Albert Figone, author of the University of Illinois Press book Cheating the Spread: Gamblers, […]
More than milk and spinach
The Classical sports website has posted an excerpt from the recent University of Illinois Press book A People’s History of Baseball plus a Q&A with author Mitchell Nathanson. The Classical: In […]
Pay for Play in Bloomberg
Last month the Penn State football program was hit with NCAA sanctions over the Jerry Sandusky abuse scandal. Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter supports the punishment in a Bloomberg View piece and references […]
The Boston Globe reviews A People’s History of Baseball
The May 13, 2012, edition of the The Boston Globe includes a review of Mitchell Nathanson’s new book A People’s History of Baseball. “The most enjoyable moment in A People’s History of […]
Mitchell Nathanson on NPR’s Only a Game
Mitchell Nathanson, author of the new book A People’s History of Baseball, was interviewed on the March 31, 2012, edition of National Public Radio’s syndicated program Only a Game, hosted by Bill […]
Ronald Smith interviewed by Urbana-Champaign NPR affiliate about college athletic reform
On January 3, 2012, Ronald Smith, professor emeritus of sports history at Penn State University and author of the recent book Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform, […]
NBC’s Nightly News interviews Ronald Smith
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy On November 20, 2011, NBC’s Nightly News interviewed Ronald A. Smith, professor emeritus of sports history at Penn […]
Ronald Smith on Penn State and college presidents in The Washington Post online
Ronald A. Smith, author of the recent book Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform, and professor emeritus of sports history at Penn State University, contributed a […]
UIP author on the scandal at Penn State
Ronald A. Smith, author of the recent book Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform and professor emeritus of sports history at Penn State University, supplied the […]
Not more than 500 ladies were present
In February 2012 we will publish Before the Curse: The Chicago Cub’s Glory Years, 1870-1945, which contains vintage newspaper accounts and historical essays on my favorite baseball team. I’ve been reading the […]
George Kirsch: Opinionator
George Kirsch, author of the University of Illinois Press titles Golf in America and Baseball and Cricket: The Creation of American Team Sports, 1838-72, contributed an Opinionator column this week […]