New Books In Sports
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 474:19:32
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Sinopse
Interviews with Scholars of Sport about their New Books
Episódios
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![Stefan Rinke and Kay Schiller (editors), “The FIFA World Cup 1930-2010: Politics, Commerce, Spectacle and Identities” (Wallstein, 2014)]()
Stefan Rinke and Kay Schiller (editors), “The FIFA World Cup 1930-2010: Politics, Commerce, Spectacle and Identities” (Wallstein, 2014)
01/08/2014 Duração: 56minThe history of globalization is found in more than international political organizations and multinational corporations, free-trade agreements and foreign direct investments, satellite communications and special export zones. When looking at the forces that have driven globalization over the last decades, we must also look to football and especially the World...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![J.C. Herz, “Learning to Breath Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness” (Crown Archetype, 2014)]()
J.C. Herz, “Learning to Breath Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness” (Crown Archetype, 2014)
18/07/2014 Duração: 55minIn industrial parks, converted warehouses, and pole barns across the country, a fitness revolution is taking place. It’s a revolution, according to J.C. Herz, that’s leading us not so much forward as back, into what she calls “the primal future of fitness.” This future is one in which fitness connects...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Roger Kittleson, “The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil” (University of California Press, 2014) and Joshua Nadel, “Fútbol! Why Soccer Matters in Latin America” (University Press of Florida, 2014)]()
Roger Kittleson, “The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil” (University of California Press, 2014) and Joshua Nadel, “Fútbol! Why Soccer Matters in Latin America” (University Press of Florida, 2014)
24/06/2014 Duração: 53minPassion. Flair. Instinct. Improvisation. As the World Cup advances to the knockout stage, you’ll hear these terms associated with the football styles of Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico rather than those of Belgium and Germany. As historians Roger Kittleson and Joshua Nadel explain, the soccer cultures of Brazil and other countries...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Travis Vogan, “Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media” (University of Illinois Press, 2014)]()
Travis Vogan, “Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media” (University of Illinois Press, 2014)
16/05/2014 Duração: 50minLast weekend was the NFL Draft, the annual event when teams select college players who have shown the talent to advance to the professional ranks. Staged at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, broadcast live on two cable networks, and surrounded by ceaseless media attention and analysis, the Draft is...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lucia Trimbur, “Come Out Swinging: The Changing World of Boxing in Gleason’s Gym” (Princeton University Press, 2013))]()
Lucia Trimbur, “Come Out Swinging: The Changing World of Boxing in Gleason’s Gym” (Princeton University Press, 2013))
25/04/2014 Duração: 49minImagine a boxing gym. What probably comes to mind is a large, run-down room on the upper floor of an old brick building, somewhere in a trash-strewn, depressed neighborhood. The room echoes with the thud of the heavy bag, the rat-tat-tat of the speed bag, the quick whisks of the...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lincoln Harvey, “A Brief Theology of Sport” (SCM Press, 2014)]()
Lincoln Harvey, “A Brief Theology of Sport” (SCM Press, 2014)
04/04/2014 Duração: 49minDoes God care who wins the game? According to a recent survey, plenty of American fans think so. The Public Religion Research Institute found that a quarter of fans said that they had prayed to God for a favorable outcome to a game. Add in those who practice some personal...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Brett Hutchins and David Rowe, “Sport Beyond Television: The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of Networked Media Sport” (Routledge, 2013)]()
Brett Hutchins and David Rowe, “Sport Beyond Television: The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of Networked Media Sport” (Routledge, 2013)
20/03/2014 Duração: 53minTwenty years ago, when I was studying abroad in Europe, the only way to keep track of my teams back in the US was to sneak looks in The International Herald Tribune at the newspaper kiosk (the price of the paper was beyond my meager budget). Twelve years after that,...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![N. Jeremi Duru, “Advancing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in the NFL” (Oxford University Press, 2011)]()
N. Jeremi Duru, “Advancing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in the NFL” (Oxford University Press, 2011)
06/03/2014 Duração: 50minEach year, following the end of the NFL season, there is a blizzard of activity as teams with disappointing records fire their head coaches and look for the new leader who will turn things around. This year, seven teams fired their coaches and spent the next weeks searching for a...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Jules Boykoff, “Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games” (Routledge, 2013)]()
Jules Boykoff, “Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games” (Routledge, 2013)
07/02/2014 Duração: 51minThe 22nd Winter Olympics are underway. It’s safe to say that the lead-up has not gone smoothly. Of course, there have been the obligatory cost overruns, crony contracts, displacement of locals, and environmental despoliation–all the problems we’ve seen with past Olympics. But this year’s games have come with new wrinkles....Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Sam Miller and Jason Wojciechowski, “Baseball Prospectus 2014” (Wiley, 2014)]()
Sam Miller and Jason Wojciechowski, “Baseball Prospectus 2014” (Wiley, 2014)
05/02/2014 Duração: 44minThis week’s episode features Sam Miller and Jason Wojciechowski, editors of the Baseball Prospectus’ 2014 (Wiley, 2014), a yearbook that both previews the upcoming baseball season and provides readers a look into the state of the art in baseball analysis, both in terms of advanced statistical metrics and, increasingly, subjective...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![John Matthew Smith, “The Sons of Westwood: John Wooden, UCLA, and the Dynasty That Changed College Basketball” (University of Illinois Press, 2013)]()
John Matthew Smith, “The Sons of Westwood: John Wooden, UCLA, and the Dynasty That Changed College Basketball” (University of Illinois Press, 2013)
29/01/2014 Duração: 48minOne of the great dynasties of American sports are the UCLA men’s basketball teams of the 1960s-70s. In a twelve-year span, the Bruins won ten national collegiate championships. They had four undefeated seasons, and in one stretch, from 1971-1974, the teams won 88 straight games. UCLA’s teams featured some of...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Susan Ware, “Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women’s Sports” (UNC Press, 2011)]()
Susan Ware, “Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women’s Sports” (UNC Press, 2011)
17/01/2014 Duração: 52minIf you’re younger than 45 or so, you probably don’t remember the “Battle of the Sexes.” This tennis match, between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King, is one of the iconic moments in American history of the 1970s. It represented a breakthrough moment for women in sports, a symbol of...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![The 2013 Year-End Episode]()
The 2013 Year-End Episode
22/12/2013 Duração: 02h01minIt’s that time of year when the panels of experts on sports call-in shows shout opinions on the best and worst of the past twelve months. To finish the year, New Books in Sports offers its own panels of experts. But rather than arguing over the biggest matches and plays...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Kevin Kerrane, “Dollar Sign on the Muscle: The World of Baseball Scouting” (CreateSpace, 2013)]()
Kevin Kerrane, “Dollar Sign on the Muscle: The World of Baseball Scouting” (CreateSpace, 2013)
13/12/2013 Duração: 58minKevin Kerrane‘s Dollar Sign on the Muscle: The World of Baseball Scouting (CreateSpace, 2013) represents the first major study of the history and practice of professional baseball scouting. Based on Kerrane’s ethnographic research with the Philadelphia Phillies during the 1981 season, the book provides an inside look at one of sports’ least understood...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Peter Westwick and Peter Neushul, “The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing” (Crown, 2013)]()
Peter Westwick and Peter Neushul, “The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing” (Crown, 2013)
02/12/2013 Duração: 50minThe Atlantic magazine recently asked its readers to name the greatest athlete of all time. The usual suspects were present among the nominees: Jesse Owens, Pele, Wayne Gretzky, Don Bradman. Given that these were readers of The Atlantic, there were some more thoughtful answers as well: Canadian athlete and cancer-research...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lindsay Krasnoff, “The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France, 1958-2010” (Lexington Books, 2012)]()
Lindsay Krasnoff, “The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France, 1958-2010” (Lexington Books, 2012)
14/11/2013 Duração: 44minIn 1967, an official of the French basketball federation lamented the team’s poor finish at that year’s European Championships in Finland. The French team finished sixth in their group of eight, and then lost in the first game of the knockout stage. The official noted that Europe’s top teams, such...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![The NBS Fall Seminar: Sports Memoirs]()
The NBS Fall Seminar: Sports Memoirs
07/10/2013 Duração: 01h59minOne of the most crowded sections of the sports library is the one devoted to autobiographies and memoirs. The shelves here are constantly adding new titles, by both legends and bit players. For instance, the past week has brought the release of new memoirs by Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![David Little, “The Sports Show: Athletics as Image and Spectacle” (University of Minnesota Press, 2012)]()
David Little, “The Sports Show: Athletics as Image and Spectacle” (University of Minnesota Press, 2012)
24/09/2013 Duração: 49minMany fans store a vast collection of sports images in their brains. With just a moment’s glance at a picture, even a slice of the picture, they can recognize the athletes, the season, the game, the particular play that the photographer captured. I experienced this recently when one of my...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann (editors), “Africa’s World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space” (University of Michigan Press, 2013)]()
Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann (editors), “Africa’s World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space” (University of Michigan Press, 2013)
05/09/2013 Duração: 47minIn 2010, for the first time, an African nation hosted the FIFA World Cup. The advertisements surrounding the tournament used graphics and sounds intended to conjure the image of a vibrant, exotic land. In fact, though, the African-ness of the South African World Cup was pretty thin, when not wholly...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Tony Collins, “Sport in Capitalist Society: A Short History” (Routledge, 2013)]()
Tony Collins, “Sport in Capitalist Society: A Short History” (Routledge, 2013)
13/08/2013 Duração: 45minThroughout the centuries, in cultures around the world, people have played games. But it has only been in the modern age, in the last 250 years or so, that people have competed in and watched sports. Modern sports are distinct in practice and purpose from the ball games of Mayan...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
