Mar 16, 2021 | African American Studies, American History, Sport, Sports Studies
George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908 will be published in September.
Dec 8, 2020 | News, Review, Sport, Sports Studies
“New Orleans Sports is an excellent book overall. It is well written and well researched, and it provides easily digestible insights from several leading scholars of sport history.”
Nov 16, 2020 | Sport, Sports Studies
Booklist proclaimed, “It’s hard to think of another sports journalist who knows more about his or her sport of choice. As it does every year, Hauser’s anthology laps the field. The man is a treasure.”
Oct 15, 2020 | Sport, Sports Studies
Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser’s newest collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene. Reviewing his 2019 collection, Booklist proclaimed, “It’s hard to think of another sports journalist who knows more about...
Sep 18, 2020 | Sport, Sports Studies
LISTEN HERE Dr. Terry Anne Scott joined the inaugural podcast of the Seattle University’s Department of Kinesiology to discuss Seattle Sports, her new anthology on the history of Seattle’s sports culture, and how diversity and social progress are uniquely...
Aug 18, 2020 | new in paper, Sport, Sports Studies
First published in 2016 as part of the University of Arkansas Press’s Sport, Culture, and Society Series, the award-winning Separate Games, edited by David K. Wiggins and Ryan A. Swanson, is now available in paperback. Winner of the 2017 book award from the...