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For those who would prioritize an understanding of sports contests as “events,” the frame of the game is distinct from ordinary life, and the anthem functions as a liminal space—a place between ordinary experience and focus on the game.
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In a pandemic, none of this matters. But maybe a pandemic is the best time to reconsider what we understand about sports and sports fandom precisely because it doesn’t matter
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The growing appeal of the WNBA
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Forest Park is known as St. Louis’s “Crown Jewel.” But there’s a basketball-shaped absence at its heart that reflects the city’s fraught racial history.
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If there were one way to beat the Seattle Sports Choke™, I figured it would be a self-sacrificial reverse jinx. Not that I believe in those things. Except that I do, and it worked.
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Was Christian Laettner hated for his whiteness? Noah Cohan explores conceptions of race in college basketball.
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After quitting football, Noah Cohan seeks solidarity in Steve Almond’s new book, Against Football.
