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Fencing at Crossed Swords: Immigration of Elitist Sport to Palestine
Udi Carmi
History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Activity
Samuel M. Clevenger
Philosophy of Sport and Physical Activity is a laudable achievement. The book elucidates and synthesizes a myriad of historical eras within the global history of sport and physical culture, employing a “cross-disciplinary” (p. vii) framework that effectively relates kinesiological scientific questions
Creating the Big Ten: Courage, Corruption, and Commercialization
Chad Seifried
along with the profound story about the possible formation of a new conference. Chapters 13 (Cross Currents) and 14 (Closing out Half a Century) were also interesting as they both highlight continuing internal conflict, the fall of Chicago out of the Big Ten, and potential expansion prior to and through
Cultural Citizenship or Commercial Interest? The 1962 Grey Cup Fiasco
John Valentine
the Grey Cup game. 53 Later that same week Gordon Keeble, executive vice-president of CTV, confirmed an offer of a clean-feed of the Grey Cup game being provided to CBC. The public broadcaster planned to replace the CTV commercials with Red Cross public service announcements. 54 BBG To the Rescue The
Landscapes of Performance: Using Local Geography for the Testing of Sport School Pupils in Sweden, 1972–2023
Daniel Svensson
one of the most evident examples. 2 Cross-country skiing emerged where there was snow, and it is still mainly an outdoor sport. It has a long tradition in Sweden as an important part of Swedish nationalism, though not as important as in Norway. 3 It is a very traditional sport and simultaneously one
Global and Transnational Sport: Ambiguous Borders, Connected Domains
Zachary R. Bigalke
advocates for transnational history as a theoretical construct that “explicitly reflects […] cross-border connections and yet does not deny nation states of their agency” (p. 2). The eight chapters in this collection meet Naha’s challenge as they capture both the ambiguities of cross-border connections and
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sport management at St. Francis Xavier University (Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada), cross-appointed between the Departments of Human Kinetics and Management. His primary research interests include sport as heritage, specifically in the context of the marginalization of traditional games around the
Nature Sport and Environmental History: Adulation or Alteration of Nature?
PearlAnn Reichwein, Pierre-Olaf Schut, and Grégory Quin
experience of nature in the outdoor spaces of physical culture and movement. For example, traditional koku divers of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, cross-country skiers in the Swedish countryside, and sailors on the Atlantic coast of France each were closely attuned to where they lived and
“Home” to Some, But Not to Others: It’s Time to “Step Up” 1
Carly Adams
interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary conversations; and to imagine new directions.” 4 I am proud of the work we have done over the past six years. Yet, I remain unsettled about the state of the journal and the field of sport history. Here, I reflect on my 2016 editorial and in particular the phrase I used
Five Overtimes: The Habs and the Leafs in the 1951 Stanley Cup Finals
Tanya K. Jones, Olaf Stieglitz, John Wong, and Brett Anderson
the cross-border constellation of a North American professional league. Elsewhere, at the beginning of Chapter eight, Robertson and Madden quote Canadian journalist Dink Carroll and his view on Turk Broda, then a veteran goalie for the Toronto Maple Leafs, whose career was ending. Carroll spoke in his
