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A group of boys at Chirec International School in India playing Cricket, 2015.
Cricket without Boundaries: The Story of a Global Game
Olympic Broadcasting Services covering the men's 10 kilometre marathon swim at the 2012 Olympic Games.
The Big Game on the Small Screen: The Televised Transformation of Sport
the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium
The 1st Modern Olympic Games, Athens 1896
Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier
Rumble in the Jungle: The 1974 Foreman/Ali Heavyweight Title Fight
NCAA Basketball championship banners.
The Big Business of “Amateur” Intercollegiate Sports
The Olympic flag flies at half-staff during a memorial service to the slain Israeli athletes, September 6, 1972.
The Munich Olympic Massacre
2009 Tour de France winner Alberto Contador
The Tour de France and The Yellow Jersey
Gold medalist Tommie Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos raise their fists.
We Won’t Shut up and Dribble: A Short History of Black Athletic Protest
U.S. Marines play baseball in the Dominican Republic.
The Dominican Republic and the United States: A Baseball History
Opening ceremonies of the 1896 Olympics
Revival and Reinvention: the Olympic Games, Athens 1896
A slave owner holding a baby and a whip and a group of slaves
From Republicans to Democrats: The Changing Political Allegiance of Black Voters
a crowd of people holding signs. some signs read "Black Lives Matter" and "End Police Brutality" and Defund the Police"
Still Striving for a More Perfect Union in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Ali, left, walking through the streets of Kinshasa in 1974.
The Rumble in the Jungle
2009 Tour de France winner, Alberto Contador, wearing the yellow jersey on June 26, 2009.
The Tour de France and the Yellow Jersey
Colin Kaepernick and teammates kneeling
The Long View of Sports Protests
Tommie Smith and John Carlos protesting at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
Ten Protests in Sports History
Ilona Schoknecht-Slupianek.
Cops and Robbers? The Roots of Anti-Doping Policies in Olympic Sport
Habana Lions Baseball Players 1946-47
Baseball Without Borders
Jackie Robinson
Top Ten Origins: The World Series
Early OSU football game
4th and Goal? The Past of the American University and the Future of the NCAA
Photo from 1890 of the first OSU football team
Taylor Branch on the Crisis of College Sports
Football player Takeo Spikes compared the violence of football to the Roman coliseum.
Savage Gladiators vs. Civilized Amateurs: Rome and Athens in American Sports Culture
Team photo of a soccer team
The Politics of International Sport
Press coming from Sochi during the recent Olympic cycle
2/21/14: On Distorting Russia

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