Football and Opiates in America Unraveling Dense Histories
In 2016, five years after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared opiate-related…
Browsing: Sports
Needles and Hoops Sports Programs in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, the Socialist Party, and their Communist Rivals
Today, the fight for social justice in sports tends to concern elite competition because adults…
The N.Y.P.D.’s “superb weapon” Sports and Ideology in New York City’s Police Athletic League from the 1930s-World War II
New York City’s Mayor, Bill de Blasio, began his second term in office last month,…
A History of Latino and Mexican Boxing
For at least a generation, boxing’s cultural impact has declined in the United States. Seemingly…
Selling American Vigor The Cold War and the President’s Council on Physical Fitness
Starting this May, the FDA is expected to implement a long-delayed component of the Affordable…
The 1952 Olympic Games, the US, and the USSR
The relationship between politics and international sport is fraught with tension and drama: the same…
Process Explores the Histories of Sport
The 2018 Winter Olympic Games are nearly upon us. They, like sports in general, have…
Reparation as Fantasy Remembering the Black-Fisted Silent Protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games
On October 17, 2005, San Jose State University unveiled a twenty-foot fiberglass statue of Tommie…