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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
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
summer olympics banner
2/9/14: Russia, Gay Rights, and the Sochi Olympics
Ajax, The Dutch, The War: the Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour, by Simon Kuper Book cover.
Is It Only A Game?
Cover of Pay for Play A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform by Ronald A. Smith.
Wagging the Dog
Soccer fans, painted in the colors of South Africa's flag, celebrate the coming of the 2010 FIFA World Cup to South Africa.
The Soccer World Goes to South Africa: Sport and the Making of Modern Africa
Caster Semenya at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Woman, Man, Neither? The Predicament of a World-Class Runner
The Winter Olympic Torch at Salt Lake City, 2002.
Playing Politics: Olympic Controversies Past and Present