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From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Then, almost overnight, he was gone. He was Bo Jackson.

Bull Durham, the breakthrough 1988 film about a minor league baseball team, is widely revered as the best sports movie of all time. But back in 1987, Ron Shelton was a first-time director and no one was willing to finance a movie about baseball—especially a story set in the minors. But something miraculous happened and the new book, "The Church of Baseball" attempts to capture why.

In 2016, amid an epidemic of police shootings of African Americans, the celebrated NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began a series of quiet protests on the field, refusing to stand during the U.S. national anthem. By “taking a knee,” Kaepernick bravely joined a long tradition of American athletes making powerful political statements. This time, however, Kaepernick’s simple act spread like wildfire throughout American society, becoming the preeminent symbol of resistance to America’s persistent racial inequality. Critically acclaimed sports journalist and author of "A People’s History of Sports in the United States," Dave Zirin chronicles “the Kaepernick effect” for the first time, through interviews with a broad cross-section of professional athletes across many different sports, college stars and high-powered athletic directors, and high school athletes and coaches.

Nate Ebner is a two-sport athlete who is the only person to ever compete in the Olympics as an active NFL player and then gone on to win a Super Bowl. He…

Jon Wertheim has made a career out of looking for a good sports story, but when he recalled the summer of 1984, he found several crammed into one summer.…

Tom Seaver was one of the most talented and popular players in the history of baseball. He is one of only two pitchers with 300 wins, 3,000 strikeouts,…

Dave Parker spent 19 years in the major leagues, racking up three Gold Gloves, more than 2,700 hits, two batting titles, seven All-Star games, two World…

We talk sports today with Amy Bass and Howard Herman! WAMC's Ray Graf hosts. Amy Bass is professor of sport studies and chair of the division of social…

The #MeToo movement has touched every facet of the entertainment industry. But, what about the professional sports world?In her new book, “Sidelined:…

So if you’ve watched any of the men’s or women’s NCAA Tournament this past week, you probably noticed a couple of things. First, a lot of upsets,…