Articles, Appearances, and Reviews

Articles

Reviews and Mentions

Appearances

Politico: How Nixon Turned Football into a Political Weapon

Victory Journal: A Political Education

Washington Post: The NFL Marketing Ploy that was Too Successful for the League's Own Good

US Sport History blog: 50 years of political positioning comes back to bite the league

Washington Post: The NFL: America's Socialist Utopia

 Q & A at UIP we

Politico: How Nixon Turned Football into a Political Weapon

Victory Journal: A Political Education

Washington Post: The NFL Marketing Ploy that was Too Successful for the League's Own Good

US Sport History blog: 50 years of political positioning comes back to bite the league

Washington Post: The NFL: America's Socialist Utopia

 Q & A at UIP website 

Q & A with Andy and Andrew at Sport in American History Blog

Washington Post: on Nixon at the Lincoln Memorial

Public Seminar: Unsportsmanlike Conduct (on Trump and sports)

Zócalo Public Square: How the NFL and American Politicians Politicized Pro Football

slightly shortened version ran in SF Chronicle

We're History: Dave Meggyesy and the History of National Anthem Protests in the NFL

Washington Post: Long Before Colin Kaepernick, the NFL was Snuffing Out Dissent

Appearances

Reviews and Mentions

Appearances

radio: KALW "City Visions," Dec. 4, 7-8pm

radio: New Book Network--Sports podcast, May 9

book release party, Spruce restaurant, May 17, 7pm

reading group, UHS, May 21, 7pm

radio: Huddlin' with the Pros, May 23

book release party, Green Apple (Clement location), May 30, 6:30-8

Bruce Pratt talks about the book on Downtown with Rich Kimball, May 3

radio: KALW "City Visions," Dec. 4, 7-8pm

radio: New Book Network--Sports podcast, May 9

book release party, Spruce restaurant, May 17, 7pm

reading group, UHS, May 21, 7pm

radio: Huddlin' with the Pros, May 23

book release party, Green Apple (Clement location), May 30, 6:30-8

Bruce Pratt talks about the book on Downtown with Rich Kimball, May 30; I talk about the book with Bruce and Rich

film showing and discussion, Diesel Books, Larkspur, CA, June 20, 6-8 

on Inside the Game with Pat Williams

reading: Books, Inc. (Chestnut St.), Sep. 12, 7-9pm

reading: Book Passage, Ferry Building, Sep. 18, 6-7:30pm

TV: Beyond the Game, with John Vorperian, Dec. 28

Sports by Brooks, Nov. 6, 2019 (we get tech issues worked out at 46:23 or so)

a fun conversation with Arnie Chapman at the Football History Dude podcast

conversation with Darin Hayes at Pigskin Dispatch

Reviews and Mentions

Reviews and Mentions

Reviews and Mentions

Publishers' Weekly

recommended reading in an article in The Society Pages

Gospel Coalition: 7, Maybe 8, Books to Read on Football and American Culture

Sports Biblio Digest: A Half-Century of American Football Culture Wars

The Guardian

Weekly Standard

These Football Times

Library of Congress


Contact

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UI Press page for the book


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Powell's



Older writings

Older writings

Older writings

Way back in 2001, I did a piece on the XFL. It's weirdly relevant again.

Here's a decent piece on The Tick

sports reality programming, circa 2001

a piece on CSI, which had just premiered, that holds up well




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