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Tag Archives: football
Authors on Issues: The Political Football
in authors, Authors on Issues, Uncategorized
Tagged authors on issues, football, NFL, sports, super bowl
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In this latest installment in our Authors on Issues series, Thomas P. Oates, author of Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL, writes about the political and cultural force of the NFL. The Political Football By Thomas … Continue reading
200 Years of Illinois: Grange’s Ghost Story
in Illinois / regional, sports history
Tagged 200 Years of Illinois, football, Red Grange
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On October 18, 1924, a streak of fire and breath of flame named Harold “Red” Grange had a game for the ages, scoring six touchdowns against a University of Michigan defense thought to be among the best in the nation. The … Continue reading
Throwbacklist Thursday: Ready for some football
in biography, sports history
Tagged baseball, Elliott J. Gorn, football, John M. Carroll, Michael Oriard, NFL, Red Grange, sports history, sports media, Warren Goldstein
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Tonight, the National Football League and the betting on same return to thrill America. Sure, you know the quarterback rating of all the miserable underperformers who have gone under center for your team since the Kennedy administration. Why not add some … Continue reading
Sports games and you
in sports history
Tagged basketball, Changing the Game, football, Howard P. Chudacoff, NCAA, scandal, sports, Title IX
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Consider the NCAA the only pure athletic sphere in our cash-on-the-barrel head culture? Or do you prefer to think of the NCAA as a cesspool built on a tripod of corruption, hypocrisy, and exploitation? The great thing about the fantastic new … Continue reading
Cheat feat
in sports history
Tagged backlist, deflategate, football, philosophy, pro football, Randolph Feezell, Sport Play and Ethical Reflection, Tom Brady
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This morning our scandal-addled zeitgeist turns its attention to professional football, where the New England Patriots stand accused, and more or less convicted, of deflating balls for a playoff game versus the arch-rival Indianapolis Colts. Why deflate a football? It makes … Continue reading
Best of Illinois: Very sporting
in biography, Chicago, forthcoming books, new books, sports history, Uncategorized
Tagged baseball, basketball, Before the Curse, Before the Ivy, Carson Cunningham, Chicago Cubs, college basketball, Cubs, football, history, John Matthew Smith, John Wooten, Laurent Pernot, NCAA, NFL, NFL Football, pro football, Randy Roberts, Richard C. Crepeau, Sons of Westwood, UCLA basketball
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Metrics used to refer to a baffling system of weights and measures that Americans refused to adopt. These days, however, sports fans quote a different kind of metrics that measure everything from K/BB ratio to Kobe’s plus-minus. We live in an age … Continue reading
Pigskin Primer, 2014
in backlist classics, communication, new books, sports history
Tagged football, Michael Oriard, NFL, Richard Crepeau, Travis Vogan
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The casual viewer might not ponder a university press and the manly art of football at the same time. Assuming a scholarly publisher covered sports at all, wouldn’t it devote its energy to obscure ball games played by ancient Mayans, or maybe … Continue reading