Sports

The mixed-race Hawaiian athlete George Freeth brought surfing to Venice, California, in 1907. Over the next twelve years, Freeth taught Southern Ca...

This book analyzes the place and role of sport within public diplomacy, including theoretical conceptualizations of the category of sports diplomac...

Once deemed an unworthy research endeavor, the study of sports fandom has garnered the attention of seasoned scholars from a variety of academic di...

Navigating between society's moral panics about the influence of violent videogames and philosophical texts about self-cultivation in the martial a...

Navigating between society's moral panics about the influence of violent videogames and philosophical texts about self-cultivation in the martial a...

In Venezuelan Stick Fighting: The Civilizing Process in Martial Arts, Michael J. Ryan examines the modern and historical role of the secretive trad...

Running feels good. It also centers the runner in the world, solves the problems implied by the Cartesian split between body and soul, and establis...

The Adulteration of Children’s Sports explores current behavioral and physiological research about how children’s organized sport has changed; how ...

The Adulteration of Children’s Sports explores current behavioral and physiological research about how children’s organized sport has changed; how ...

This book analyzes the place and role of sport within public diplomacy, including theoretical conceptualizations of the category of sports diplomac...

The book attempts to provide a wide overview of key ethical matters in the philosophy of sport: What is fair play? Is strategic fouling legitimate?...

As of 2012, Twitter has over 100 million active users worldwide, generating close to 230 million Tweets per day. Encouraged by sports shows that in...

Aretism: An Ancient Sports Philosophy for the Modern Sports World applies a robust ancient ethic to the widely-acknowledged problems faced by moder...

Nonfiction films about sports have been around for decades, but the previously neglected subgenre of the documentary has become increasingly popula...

The first European Championship in men’s volleyball was contested in 1948 by just six teams, and the inaugural women’s tournament took place in 194...

The first European Championship in ice hockey took place more than 100 years ago. Since that first competition in 1910, a total of 66 championships...

During the 2012 European Soccer Championship (popularly called the “Euro”), nearly one and a half million people attended the matches. It was the t...

This edited collection examines how fantasy sports play has established a prominent and promising foothold in the larger sports ecology. Often cons...