Sportsball and Sporting Culture
Sportsball: "the act of participating either competitively or noncompetitively in an athletic based endeavor occasionally with other humans that usually involves spherical devices but also doesn't have to because all sports deserve equal representation including ribbon dancing and roshambo" (Urban Dictionary). Podcaster and NBA basketball journalist Zach Lowe speaks of sportsing or sportsball when talking about the NBA – marking both the relevance of professional sport and its banality in the context of everyday life, political struggles, and worldwide catastrophes. This course examines the cultural, political, social, and embodied ways "sport" plays in our everyday life and how it has reshaped our relationship to our bodies, data and statistics, and education. By attending to how race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability frame our experience of "sport," we'll interrogate "what sport gives us" and "why do we (not) care so much about it?"
Course taught by: Vincent Pham. Colloquium Associate: Catie Mohr.
Wikipedia is a great resource for getting general info about something, but because anyone can contribute or change its content, it is sometimes considered unreliable. It is a good place to start your research, but it is best to double check what you find against other sources.
Consider consulting the library's print or electronic encyclopedias, dictionaries, or other reference books to backup the basic information of your paper. Reference books can provide a general overview of a topic and help identify synonyms, related terms, or basic data; these sources often include references and lists of further readings. Additionally, these resources have typically gone through an editorial process to check for accuracy. To the right and below are some resources that may be of use.
With God on Their Side : sport in the service of religion by Below are key reference books that provide a general overview of a topic or help identify synonyms, related terms, or basic data. These sources often include references and lists of further readings.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences by 
Class in America - an encyclopedia by 
Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics by 
Encyclopedia of International Sports Studies by 
Encyclopedia of World Sport : from ancient times to the present by 
Sports Around the World : history, culture, and practice by 
