Tag: Noah Cohan

  • 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.

  • The growing appeal of the WNBA

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Was Christian Laettner hated for his whiteness? Noah Cohan explores conceptions of race in college basketball.