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...
View ArticleThat’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.
View ArticleOne 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...
View ArticleIn 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 Culture of Moving Dots
Today I listened to a very well crafted, informative lecture by Rajiv Maheswaran on how basketball teams are using movement tracking devices and computing power to inform the decisions they make about...
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Damn Horses! On Paying College Athletes
The Allrounder (which I love and am proud to be a part of) published an interview with Duke University political theorist Michael Gillespie about the issue of paying college athletes, which he thinks...
View ArticleTo go or not to go? A View from Inside Big-Time College Sports
A couple of days ago I received an e-mail from the Athletic Director (AD) at the University of Michigan, inviting me and other members of the Advisory Board on Intercollegiate Athletics (ABIA) to join...
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Integrating Academics and Athletics in the American College and University
Last week I spoke at Oberlin College, where the Athletics Department had invited me to share some of my ideas on this topic. The turnout was impressive, the audience engaged and responsive, and the...
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Hail. No.
The shoes are pretty sick, but I literally would not wear them even if Nike paid me to. I’m not even going to show a picture. Because the shoes are fucking sick. I have seen and heard (and smelled) a...
View ArticleBlack Athletes, Activism, and the Media Panel at Oberlin College
Last week, as part of Oberlin College’s celebration of Black History Month, I had the honor of hosting and moderating a panel discussion on Black Athletes, Activism, and the Media. The panelists...
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