45 Reasons to Support The Allrounder
By now, most of you must know that I’m co-founding and co-editing a new online forum for thoughtful observers of sport: The Allrounder. If so, you also know that to raise funds for our launch and first year of operation, we’re in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign that will run until May 20. We are asking for $55,000 in donations. As usual for Kickstarter, if we don’t get it all, we get nothing. And if we get nothing, the world doesn’t get The Allrounder. So the stakes are high. Over the next month I’ll be using Between the Lines to hector, harass, badger, cajole, coax, persuade, boss, plead, beg, wheedle, entice, sweet-talk and otherwise try to force my readers and friends to kick in a few bucks to help us go live. If everybody does just a little bit, we can make it.
In case you’re already convinced: go to our Kickstarter page now.
Today, I offer a visual indicator of the caliber of content we’ll be running: a virtual library of selected works written by those who’ve already signed on to contribute their thoughtful, accessible perspectives, from a broad range of disciplinary angles, on the whole world of sport and its attendant culture. They are not just intelligent and informed thinkers, but superb storytellers eager to share their work with other scholars and, especially with a broader audience. How great would it be to have a single, free place online where you could go to read brief, accessible essays on topical issues in sports culture around the globe by the world’s leading sports culture intellectuals? So peep this dazzling array and, if you care about sport and its role in shaping our world, you will surely feel as I do, that this is an exciting venture worthy of your support as well as that of your friends.
To make things easier, as you peruse the titles below, clicking on any of the book cover images will take you to our Kickstarter page.
1
David L. Andrews
Sports Stars:
The Cultural Politics of Sporting Celebrity
2
David J. Leonard
After Artest:
The NBA and the Assault on Blackness
3
David Andrews
Michael Jordan, Inc.
Corporate Sport, Media Culture and Late Modern America
4
Amy Bass
Not the Triumph but the Struggle
The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete
5
John Coy
Hoop Genius:
How a Desperate Teacher and Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball
6
Aaron Baker
Contesting Identities:
Sports in American Film
7
Jules Boykoff
Celebration Capitalism
and the Olympic Games
8
N. Jeremi Duru
Advancing the Ball:
Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in the NFL
9
Tony Collins
Sport in Capitalist Society:
A Short HIstory
10
David L. Andrews
Sport and Neoliberalism
11
Grant Farred
In Motion, At Rest:
The Event of the Athletic Body
12
Grant Farred
What’s My Name?:
Black Vernacular Intellectuals
13
Peter Alegi
South Africa and the Global Game
14
Pablo Alabarces
Fútbol y patria
15
Grant Farred
Long Distance Love:
A Passion for Football
16
John Eric Goff
Gold Medal Physics:
The Science of Sports
17
Aram Goudsouzian
King of the Court:
Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution
18
Lindsay Krasnoff
The Making of Les Bleus:
Sport in France, 1958-2010
19
David Little
The Sports Show:
Athletics as Image and Spectacle
20
Andrew C. Holman
Canada’s Game:
Hockey and Identity
21
Peter Millward
The Global Football League:
Transnational Networks, Social Movements and Sport in the New Media Age
22
Don Morrow
Sport in Canada:
A History
23
Joshua Nadel
Fútbol!:
Why Soccer Matters in Latin America
24
Alon Raab
The Global Game:
Writers on Soccer
25
Simon Martin
Sport Italia:
The Italian Love Affair With Sport
26
David Rowe
Sport, Culture and the Media
27
John Bloom
There You Have It:
The Life, Legacy and Legend of Howard Cosell
28
Eric Simons
The Secret Lives of Sports Fans:
The Science of Sports Obsession
29
Jason Blake
Canadian Hockey Literature
30
Brett Bebber
Violence and Racism in Football
31
David L. Andrews
Sport-Commerce-Culture:
Essays on Sport in Late Capitalist America
32
Brenda Elsey
Citizens and Sportsmen:
Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth Century Chile
33
Christopher Gaffney
Temples of the Earthbound Gods:
Stadiums in the Cultural Landscapes of Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires
34
Barry Nicholls
You Only Get One Innings:
Family, Mates and the Wisdom of Cricket
35
Lucía Trimbur
Come Out Swinging:
The Changing World of Boxing at Gleason’s Gym
36
Peter Alegi
Africa’s World Cup
37
Dominic Erdozain
The Problem of Pleasure:
Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion
38
Brett Hutchins
Sport Beyond Television:
The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of Networked Media Sport
39
Emily Ryall
The Philosophy of Play
40
Kasia Boddy
Boxing:
A Cultural History
41
Travis Vogan
Keepers of the Flame:
NFL Films, Pro Football, and the Rise of Sports Media in America
42
Deb Waterhouse-Watson
Athletes, Sexual Assault and ‘Trial by Media’
43
Johnny Smith
Sons of Westwood:
John Wooden, UCLA, and the Dynasty That Changed College Basketball
44
Stefan Szymanski and Simon Kuper
Soccernomics
45
Christopher Young
The 1972 Munich Olympics
and the Making of Modern Germany