App State’s Rich Soccer Tradition
Coming into this week’s reading, I knew that Appalachian State heavily prioritized basketball and football over any other sport. It doesn’t take much research to figure this out as the schools display these sports
Coming into this week’s reading, I knew that Appalachian State heavily prioritized basketball and football over any other sport. It doesn’t take much research to figure this out as the schools display these sports
This article covered a topic I was unfamiliar with: the history of women in America playing football. The article begins by informing readers why it became a norm for women not to participate in
Luis Suarez has been one of my favorite players while watching soccer. Whether it was his record-breaking 2013-2014 Liverpool season or his time as part of MSN, he is a joy to watch. Admittedly,
This week, we all read “While the World Watched,” and my group read “Lifting Round the World.” While these two articles cover very different topics, certain aspects connect them. For example, in both articles,
“Sparring in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt, Race, and Boxing” is an article written on a sports blog called Sport in American History. The article is written by Roberto José Andrade Franco and Andrew
“In the early parts of the 20th century, boxing—and other ‘manly’ sports, like college football—helped calm the fears that for white men, ‘oversentimentality, oversoftness, … washiness and mushiness’ were grave dangers. At a time
This week’s readings were “While the World Watched” and “Sparring in The White House”. On the surface, it was hard to draw a connection between these two readings other than the fact that they
While I was reading both of these two articles, the sense of nationalism and love for one’s country is what stood out to me the most. The ESPN article “While the World Watched” talked
This week I read While the World Watched by Wright Thompson and Defenders of Nation Honor: Club Atlético de Cuba Tigres in Prerevolutionary Cuban Gridiron Football by Michael Wood. Both of these articles focus
This is easily one of the most chilling things I have read this year. This article gave an insight into the prominence of sport in culture and politics. It focuses on the atrocities committed