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Hail Mary
In the 1970s, some athletes began questioning the alliance between sports, conservative Christianity, and politics.
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Paul Putz
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Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
on
September 9, 2024
Before Taylor and Travis, There Was Helen and John
She was an actress. He was a shortstop. What we can learn from the press parade around this 19th-century power couple.
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Scott D. Peterson
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Zócalo Public Square
on
January 11, 2024
partner
‘Another Player Down’
How concern about injuries is changing sports.
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Retro Report
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November 20, 2023
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The First Famous Football Team Behind Bars
Sing Sing's football team, The Black Sheep, ascended to fame even though its players were incarcerated. One player was so good, he signed with the Eagles.
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Joshua Finnell
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JSTOR Daily
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February 8, 2023
Sex, Scandal, and Sisterhood: Fifty Years of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
They’re global icons who have left a lasting imprint on American culture. But do recent controversies threaten the squad’s future?
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Sarah Hepola
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Texas Monthly
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August 15, 2022
Baseball's Labor Wars
MLB owners’ recent lockout was an effort to reverse the gains that players had won over decades of labor struggle. The owners failed.
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Peter Dreier
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Dissent
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March 28, 2022
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Aaron Rodgers Isn’t the First Big-Name Wisconsin Anti-Vaccine Voice
But the media is treating him differently than it treated Matthew Joseph Rodermund more than a century ago.
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Janet Golden
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Made By History
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November 12, 2021
How a Domestic Violence Exposé Ushered In a New Era for the Miss America Pageant
If the press didn’t know what to make of Miss America 1992 Carolyn Sapp, they really didn’t know what to make of domestic violence.
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Amy Argetsinger
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TIME
on
September 9, 2021
Curt Flood Belongs in the Hall of Fame
His defiance changed baseball and helped assert Black people’s worth in American culture.
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Jemele Hill
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The Atlantic
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February 10, 2021
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The Buccaneers Embody Tampa’s Love of Pirates. Is That a Problem?
How brutal outlaws became romanticized.
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Jamie L. H. Goodall
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Made By History
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February 5, 2021
The True History and Swashbuckling Myth Behind the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Namesake
Pirates did roam the Gulf Coast, but more myths than facts have inspired the regional folklore.
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Nora McGreevy
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Smithsonian
on
February 4, 2021
Flu Fallout
A majority of the estimated 675,000 American deaths from the influenza pandemic of 1918–19 occurred during the second wave.
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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September 22, 2020
Why the Black National Anthem Is Lifting Every Voice to Sing
Scholars agree the song, endowed with its deep history of Black pride, speaks to the universal human condition.
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Janelle Harris Dixon
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Smithsonian
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August 10, 2020
The Real Story of the 49ers
The reality of the early gold-rush prospectors was not nearly as benevolent as the mascot’s wide smile may suggest.
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Bruce Barcott
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The Atlantic
on
February 2, 2020
Athlete-Activists Before and After Kaepernick
Kap wasn't the first, and he won't be the last.
by
Louis Moore
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Jules Boykoff
via
Public Books
on
May 14, 2019
Lightning Struck
How an Atlanta neighborhood died on the altar of Super Bowl dreams.
by
Max Blau
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The Bitter Southerner
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January 22, 2019
How Football Coaches Became the Vanguard of American Conservatism
Coaches have long sacralized the gridiron, extolling it alongside faith, family and the military as a setting stone of the social order.
by
Aaron Timms
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The Guardian
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July 25, 2018
partner
Trump Said Protesting NFL Players ‘Shouldn’t Be In This Country’
We should take him seriously. Black Americans have been threatened with deportation before and it never ends well.
by
Martha S. Jones
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Made By History
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May 25, 2018
The Role of Sports Ministries in the NFL Protests
A number of black athletes are fueling their activism with Christian faith.
by
Paul Putz
via
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
on
October 17, 2017
The NFL, the Military, and the Hijacking of Pat Tillman’s Story
Pat Tillman’s life and death is an all-American story. It’s just not the kind that Donald Trump and his supporters want it to be.
by
Ryan Devereaux
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The Intercept
on
September 28, 2017
“Taking a Knee”: Simple Phrase, Powerful—and Changing—Meaning
Used in military and football slang, the phrase dates back to at least 1960.
by
John Kelly
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Mashed Radish
on
September 25, 2017
God and the Gridiron Game
America's obsession with football is nearly as old as the game itself.
by
Paul Putz
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Hunter Hampton
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Christianity Today
on
September 6, 2017
Athlete Activists
The autobiography of NBA star Craig Hodges contains lessons for the pro athletes who are speaking up today.
by
Jules Boykoff
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Public Books
on
May 12, 2017
partner
American as Pumpkin Pie: A History of Thanksgiving
Why Pilgrims would be stunned by our "traditional" Thanksgiving table, and other surprising truths about the invention of our national holiday.
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BackStory
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November 25, 2016
Private Matter or Public Crisis? Defining and Responding to Domestic Violence
It is only recently that domestic abuse was identified as a serious, public social problem.
by
Peggy Solic
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Origins
on
July 15, 2015
The Other NRA (Or How the Philadelphia Eagles Got Their Name)
Before it ubiquitously meant the National Rifle Association, the NRA had a very different meaning.
by
Rebecca Onion
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Slate
on
May 22, 2013
Locker-Room Liberty
Athletes who helped shape our times and the economic freedom that enabled them.
by
Matt Welch
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Reason
on
May 1, 2005
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