Tag: baseball
How the explosion of prop betting threatens the integrity of pro sports
John Affleck, Penn State
When I first heard about the arrests of Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, Miami...
Baseball returns to a Japanese American detention camp after a historic...
Susan H. Kamei, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
In the spring of 1942, 15-year-old Momo Nagano...
From pulpit to pitch: Pope Francis used sport to get his...
Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández, Catholic Theological Union
The world of sport is “a constellation of many stars,” Pope Francis told...
What White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf can learn from the last...
Nick Hirshon, William Paterson University
Bad press has engulfed Jerry Reinsdorf.
As owner of the Chicago...
For over a century, baseball’s scouts have been the backbone of...
H. James Gilmore, Flagler College and Tracy Halcomb, Flagler College
Former MLB executive Pat Gillick won three World Series...
MLB home run counts are rising – and global warming is...
Christopher W. Callahan, Dartmouth College and Justin S. Mankin, Dartmouth College
Home runs are exhilarating – those lofting moments...
Against baseball’s new pitch clock
Alva Noë, University of California, Berkeley
Baseball moves very fast. That’s how it seems to me, anyway.
Against baseball’s new pitch clock
Alva Noë, University of California, Berkeley
Baseball moves very fast. That’s how it seems to me, anyway.
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
