Fight Songs and Southern Identity- Matt Marston
College football and the south are two things that go hand in hand and you can’t have one without the other. In my research I found that fight songs in the south were so
College football and the south are two things that go hand in hand and you can’t have one without the other. In my research I found that fight songs in the south were so
Appalachian State University was once a big-time school for soccer in the 70s and 80s. Most of that got pushed to the side as time went on and people have seemingly forgotten about the
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
I got to read The Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Education’s Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football by Brian Ingrassia. I enjoyed the book and felt like it portrayed its arguments very well.
“Indeed, so common did the surreptitious payment of players become during the 1920s and early 1930sthat the period was known as the era of ‘masked professionalism’ and ‘ false amateurism’.” (289) This quote encapsulates
In the introduction of The Rise of Gridiron University, Brian Ingrassia describes the scholars who have worked on researching the early stages of college football and what the different perspectives were in the 1890s
I read, “John ‘Army’ Howard, Canada’s First Black Olympian: A Nation Building Paradox.” I found it very interesting and the story of John ‘Army’ Howard to be very interesting because of the paradox of
Coming into the two readings, Raceball by Rob Ruck, and The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, There are some things that I did know but there are
In “The Early Evolution of Modern Sport in Latin America” and “The Triangle of Empire: Sport, Religion, and Imperialism in Puerto Rico’s YMCA, 1898–1926,” they both discuss the concept of European influence in Latin
From the podcast, “Lionel Messi Has Been Living in a Soccer God’s Shadow. Will He Finally Surpass Him?” It discusses how Messi had some initial struggles in fitting into the national team because of