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Legendary broadcaster Red Barber took a chance on Scully when he asked him to be an announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Three years later, Scully was the voice of the World Series.
High temperatures make baseball players and coaches more irritable, and are associated with an increase in violence.
The insistence on preserving the team name – along with fan traditions like the ‘tomahawk chop’ – is even more glaring given the city’s links to the civil rights movement.
Years before Colin Kaepernick was born, Robinson wrote, ‘I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a Black man in a white world.’
The deadline for formal bids to buy Chelsea FC is March 18. Expect some very rich US businessmen to be in the running.
A sports economist explains how the deal leaves players with a fundamentally different – and in many ways, worse – arrangement than their counterparts in the other major US sports leagues.
Among the more than 20,000 men who have played major league baseball, not one has publicly come out of the closet while still in uniform.
The Netflix documentary A Secret Love tells the remarkable story of a decades-long relationship between two gay athletes and opens up a conversation about racism, classism and homophobia in the 50s.
Pitchers in Major League Baseball have been striking out more batters than ever, and some people say it’s because they’re adding sticky stuff to the balls.
Twenty years ago, a few small-market Major League Baseball teams used advanced analytics as a secret weapon to compete with large-market teams. But the Moneyball effect is gone now.
More competitive games between top soccer clubs is desirable but creating a ‘closed’ system would harm a soccer culture built on dreams, says the man who predicted the Super League two decades ago.
Crowd size matters. When football games had thousands of fans in attendance, COVID-19 case numbers tended to spike within three weeks.
We’re the only species that can throw at speeds that kill.
New sports are being added to the Olympics all the time in an effort to remain relevant to younger audiences, while others (sorry baseball) are left out.
By removing Kenesaw Mountain Landis’ name from the plaques awarded to each league’s MVP, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America acknowledged Landis’ role in upholding segregation.
Sports is typically a reflection of society, not an exception to it. COVID-19 seems to have turned the model of professional sport inside out.
It will be possible to compare the outcomes of games with and without fans, giving new insights into the relationship between fans, home-field advantage and clutch performances.
Computerized systems that automatically determine whether a pitch is a ball or strike promise to make umpiring more accurate, but at what price?
This isn’t the first time sports have been put on hold. But in the past, the reprieve was brief, and sports went on to act as a way to bring Americans together. This time’s different.
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Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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James Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Emeritus Professor of Communication, Saint Xavier University
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E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental College
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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Professor; Department of Journalism and Multimedia Arts [JMA], Duquesne University
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Associate Professor of Sport Leadership and Management, Miami University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle
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Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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Professor of Psychology, California State University, Northridge
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Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University
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Professor of Sport Management, University of Michigan
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Professor of Economics, Smith College
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Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, Health, and Nutrition, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Connecticut