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On Reading Sports: Andre Agassi's Open and Other Literary Works
What do they know of tennis — or, for that matter, any other sport — who only tennis know? In Beyond a Boundary, his autobiography, the late Trinidadan critic, playwrite, historian, novelist, teacher...
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New UM Course: Comp Lit 100: Global Sports Cultures
Today I received the good news that the new course I designed — Global Sports Culture — was approved so that I will be able to offer it as Comparative Literature 100 in the Fall semester of 2014. This...
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The Voice of my Dad
I wrote most of this a few years ago. It seems much more important now (because of events I describe in my postscripts below), but I’m glad he could read it and appreciate it while he was still alive....
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Writing the Sporting Body
This semester, I’m excited to be teaching two sports-related courses in the same semester for the first time. First, I’ll once again be teaching “Cultures of Basketball.” I taught it for the first...
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How to Write the Sporting Body: A Report from the Classroom
How do you write what is taking place in the picture above? Or, what sorts of challenges does athletic performance present to those who would try to capture or convey it in writing? This was the...
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Teaching Values: Coaching the Right Way
In the wake of my posts last week exploring some of the history, assumptions and implications underlying various aspects of coaching, I had a great conversation with Nick Houseman at BBallBreakdown....
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