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Free the Banners, Free Discussion
On Tuesday morning, February 5, 2013, The Michigan Daily reported that former Michigan men’s basketball players and “Fab Five” members Jalen Rose and Jimmy King, participating in the Student Athletic...
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Where is 1968?
The University of Michigan Campus, 1968 Today, in their home game against Penn State, the Michigan Men’s Basketball Team busted out throwback uniforms (tweaked with long shorts, for modern...
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The Genesis of The Corner Three
In an original and stimulating post yesterday, Curtis Harris at Pro Hoops History speculated on the idea of genre in basketball. Specifically, he was prompted by former English professor turned...
View ArticleOur Myth of Creation
This is the text of a presentation I gave this past weekend at the American Comparative Literature Association annual conference at New York University. It’s also an abbreviated version of Chapter One...
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Sterling and the Foundations of the Modern Basketball State
Somewhat under-examined in the Donald Sterling Shit Show of the past week has been Sterling’s rhetorical question asserting his creative importance as owner: “Do I make the game? Or do they make the...
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Why We Need Better Basketball History—for Darryl Dawkins
I did see Darryl Dawkins play, a lot. Not in person but on television. He loomed large in the imaginary series my best friend Robb and I would play out in my driveway or at the park. He’s dear to my...
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“Demigods” (Reading In Praise of Athletic Beauty, Post 5)
Having defined the key terms of his investigation, “praise,” “beauty,” and “athletics,” Hans Gumbrecht proceeds, in the “Discontinuities” section of his In Praise of Athletic Beauty, to provide an...
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Towards a Techno-Scientific, Socio-Cultural, Tactico-Strategic History of...
I know, I keep rebooting. In my last post on this topic, I referred to a larger (academic) research project on the rise of basketball analytics. The first step in the project is a 5000-7000 word...
View Article5 for the Fab 5 @ 25
The Fab Five first set foot on Michigan’s campus 25 years ago. The first group of freshman ever to start for a major college program, they led their teams to consecutive NCAA Men’s Basketball...
View ArticleSomaesthetics and Sports: Call for Papers
Call for Papers: Special Volume on “Somaesthetics and Sport” Sport offers opportunities for the integrated experience of human embodiment. At the same time, sport occurs within, shapes and is shaped...
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