Sports Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/section/sports/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:18:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Sports Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/section/sports/ 32 32 Can Saving Soccer Save the World? https://www.publicbooks.org/can-saving-soccer-save-the-world/ Mon, 06 Dec 2021 16:00:37 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=46569 Despite its massive commercialization, the world of football has never been about making a profit.

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]]> Skateboarding, We Hardly Knew You https://www.publicbooks.org/skateboarding-we-hardly-knew-you/ Thu, 23 Sep 2021 15:00:39 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=45303 Since its beginnings, skateboarding has always been multicultural—and always provided ways to resist rigid US norms and borders.

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]]> The World Latinx Athletes Make https://www.publicbooks.org/the-world-latinx-athletes-make/ Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:00:24 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=45234 Latinx athletes have forged new identities, cultivated community, and anchored themselves in spaces that were not created for them.

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]]> “Winning Is Not Uncomplicated”: Louisa Thomas on Sports https://www.publicbooks.org/winning-is-not-uncomplicated-louisa-thomas-on-sports/ Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:00:37 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=43999 "The real value, the biggest value, of sport to me is that it is this gigantic arena for feeling."[none-for-homepage]

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]]> What Counts, These Days, in Baseball? https://www.publicbooks.org/what-counts-these-days-in-baseball/ Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:00:30 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=41262 As technologies of quantification and video capture grow more sophisticated, is baseball changing? Do those changes have moral implications?

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]]> The Black Rebel Athlete: Spectacle and Protest https://www.publicbooks.org/the-black-rebel-athlete-spectacle-and-protest/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:00:05 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=40378 As more and more protests make clear, the bodies of Black people playing sports are not outside history. Indeed, they never have been.

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]]> Swimming in the Anthropocene https://www.publicbooks.org/swimming-in-the-anthropocene/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 16:00:05 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=40355 Human bodies in deep water feel nature’s power and our own relative weakness. As seas rise, we should heed the swimmers.

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]]> Safe at Home in Late Capitalism https://www.publicbooks.org/safe-at-home-in-late-capitalism/ Mon, 25 May 2020 14:00:36 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=36087 Baseball is ideal for explaining American economic precarity: the players try desperately to get home safe, but almost always fail to do so.

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]]> Distant Sports https://www.publicbooks.org/distant-sports/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:00:03 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=35555 Stories—with video!—of some of the most memorable, gut-wrenching, or downright remarkable moments in sports history over the past 40 years.

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]]> Counterhistories of the Sport Stadium https://www.publicbooks.org/counterhistories-of-the-sport-stadium/ Mon, 06 Apr 2020 15:00:04 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=34807 As large spaces where different sectors of the city converge, stadiums are sites of social and political struggle.

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