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Q’s & A’s with Leading Sports Reformers: Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson is founder and chief executive officer of Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA), a non-profit formed at Stanford University with the mission to create a movement to transform the culture of youth sports so that all youth athletes have a [...]

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Dave Zirin is the leading sports activist/journalist in the country.  He regularly writes about the intersection of politics and sports.  Zirin was named one of UTNE Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” and won the Sport in Society and Northeastern University School of Journalism’s 2011 “Excellence in [...]

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William Dowling

William C. Dowling is University Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature at Rutgers University. He specializes in 18th century English literature, literature of the early American Republic, and literary theory. He is the author of Confessions of a Spoilsport: My Life and Hard Times Fighting Sports [...]

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Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch is a civil rights and presidential historian best known for his trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement.  He won the Pulitzer Prize for the first part of that trilogy, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63.  He also [...]

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Joe Nocera

Joe Nocera is an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, been a business writer, and served as a writer and editor for Fortune magazine for 10 years. He frequently writes about the NCAA and college sports issues, [...]

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Chris Nowinski

Chris Nowinski is one of the foremost educators, advocates, and researchers in the field of sports concussions and brain trauma.  A former Harvard football player and WWE wrestler, Nowinski was diagnosed with post-concussion syndrome and forced to retire in 2004.  He began a quest to better understand [...]

Joe Ehrmann is a former National Football League star, playing most of his career with the Baltimore Colts. After his playing career, he became an ordained minister and social justice activist in Baltimore’s inner city. He serves as a volunteer assistant for the Gilman (Maryland) High School football team. His unconventional coaching style is chronicled [...]

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Robert Lipsyte

Robert Lipsyte was an award-winning sportswriter for the New York Times. His book SportsWorld: An American Dreamland, published in 1975, is a seminal work in the field of sports journalism. It was one of the first sports books to not “god up” the athletes or view games [...]