{"title":"Discredited: The UNC Scandal and College Athletics' Amateur Ideal by Andy Thomason (review)","authors":"Ronald A. Smith","doi":"10.5406/21558450.49.1.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.49.1.34","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":"49 1","pages":"103 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47624699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sport, Film and National Culture","authors":"Andrew R. Bailey","doi":"10.5406/21558450.49.1.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.49.1.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47014304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement by Jürgen Martschukat (review)","authors":"R. Ravalli","doi":"10.5406/21558450.49.1.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.49.1.26","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":"49 1","pages":"91 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47348854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Before March Madness: The Wars for the Soul of College Basketball by Kurt Edward Kemper (review)","authors":"Sheldon Anderson","doi":"10.5406/21558450.49.1.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.49.1.23","url":null,"abstract":"86 Volume 49, Number 1 the tradition of racial liberalism, while the other, embodied by Kaepernick, is connected to a tradition of racial radicalism. He finds that these strands of liberalism and radicalism, though different, ultimately intersect and help shape each other. The third section shifts to sexual abuse and homophobia and their connection to sports and politics. Kathleen Bachynski writes on the Larry Nasser sexual-abuse case and its role in the larger #Metoo movement. One of her notable findings is that reporting on sexual abuse in the twenty-first century has moved away from just focusing on the individual perpetrators to the larger role that institutions play in fostering such environments and condoning them. Nasser’s case showed the ways that larger political/social/cultural changes have created an environment where more victims feel comfortable coming forward. This, in turn, has forced some institutions to rethink policies surrounding sexual assault. And yet, she soberly concludes, the saga over Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination has shown there are limits to the #Metoo movement. Lastly, Francesco Collura writes on homophobia in sports and how heteronormative masculinity has constructed a culture that remains challenging for LGBTQ+ athletes. Some attempts have been made, like in hockey, to create more welcoming and tolerant environments, but the author sees more needing to be done because “the NHL’s heteronormative patriarchal environment has a hegemonic masculine hold on athletes from identifying or exhibiting ‘un-masculine’ behaviors that could harm the NHL’s hyper-masculine reputation as an aggressive league” (167). The collection of essays spans a lot of topics and time periods, and as such, the volume as a whole lacks the kind of coherence to recommend it for, say, a sports history course. That said, all the essays are well researched and written. They cover a range of interesting and important topics and certainly succeed in showing how sports and politics have and will probably always remain deeply intertwined. This is in no small part because of the important role that capitalism and commodification play in sporting developments. —Aaron L. Haberman University of Northern Colorado","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":"49 1","pages":"86 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43539111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Racism, Activism, and Integrity in College Football: The Bates Must Play Movement by Donald Spivey (review)","authors":"Stephen H. Norwood","doi":"10.5406/21558450.49.1.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.49.1.31","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":"49 1","pages":"98 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42124331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disability, the Media and the Paralympic Games","authors":"S. Wan","doi":"10.5406/21558450.49.1.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.49.1.21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42960080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"King Richard (2021)","authors":"Samantha White","doi":"10.5406/21558450.49.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.49.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49086452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sport in Postwar Japan","authors":"Samuel Brady","doi":"10.5406/21558450.49.1.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.49.1.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45558469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades! Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture by Tim Harte (review)","authors":"Samuel X. Fleischer","doi":"10.5406/21558450.49.1.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.49.1.19","url":null,"abstract":"80 Volume 49, Number 1 in Irving. Guridy explains how the construction of these two pathbreaking sports venues changed the landscape not only in Texas but nationwide, as other cities carbon-copied the Texas blueprint for success and profitability. The next chapters deal with the integration of the Southwest Conference and the subsequent race to acquire the best African American football players, inevitably resulting in NCAA violations. Guridy also explains how the Texas Rangers moved from Washington, DC. The common thread was how “commercialized sport catalyzed social change by unhinging the historical hierarchies of the Jim Crow era” (79). The San Antonio Spurs and the impact of the Mexican American working-class fan base also has a dedicated chapter. Guridy’s best chapters address how Texas served as the background for two significant events during the sexual revolution: the “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match and the formation of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. The tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, held in the Houston Astrodome, was a turning point for feminism. Millions of television viewers witnessed King’s victory, resulting in the development of the women’s pro tennis tour. The author’s chapter on the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (DCC) “exposed some of the contradictions of the sexual revolution,” including their woeful pay to the hypersexualized way they were used to sell tickets and garner television ratings (213). African American cheerleaders were members. Television producers and directors helped fuel the DCC’s popularity by scanning the sidelines frequently during games. Since this is a book about Texas sports, there is no shortage of newspaper articles to choose from; however, most of the sources are secondary, taken from a wide array of sport history books. Guridy aptly shows, albeit grudgingly, how sports in Texas desegregated certain areas of the social and cultural scene. My one structural complaint is that there is no bibliography, only a notes section. The volume offers fans the genesis of big-time sports and how events in Texas fundamentally altered sports for the better. Guridy’s book adds value to the historiography of sports history through the lens of civil rights, feminism, and the sexual revolution. Women’s studies scholars and Texas historians would benefit greatly by adding this book to their list. —Corye Perez Beene Texas Tech University","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":"49 1","pages":"80 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49638682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC by Jennifer McClearen (review)","authors":"Linda Levitt","doi":"10.5406/21558450.49.1.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.49.1.27","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":"49 1","pages":"92 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42908969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}