Monthly Archive for July, 2010

Cricket and Baseball Find Common Ground in Show

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on July 31, 2010
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15cricket-cnd-articleinlineBy John F. Burns, in The New York Times

London - There was a time when the discreet men in blazers who run Lord’s cricket ground in London would have considered it an abomination to equate baseball with cricket in any fashion. Yet, there it is, an exhibition behind the famed Lord’s pavilion, cricket’s holy of holies, celebrating the similarities — and, in case anybody thought cricket’s traditionalists had run up the white flag, the differences — between cricket and baseball.

In witness of how much has changed in English attitudes toward America’s national game, the exhibition is being jointly hosted by the Marylebone Cricket Club, for more than 200 years the rule maker in worldwide cricket, and the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. The Hall of Fame will host the exhibit beginning next April, representing baseball’s own start on coming to terms with a game that many baseball enthusiasts have long loved to disparage.

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Make Soap from the Ref!

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on July 30, 2010
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edelmanspartakReview by Simon Kuper, in London Review of Books

One night in 1942, Nikolai Starostin, founder of the Spartak Moscow football club, woke to find a torch shining in his eyes and two pistols pointed at his head. He had spent years waiting for his arrest; Lavrenty Beria, head of Stalin’s secret police and director of Dinamo Moscow football club, did not like him. He was taken to the Lubianka for long interrogations. Among other things, he was accused of conspiring with the German Embassy to assassinate Stalin and set up a Fascist state. In the end he and his three brothers were convicted of theft, swindling and bribery. They each got ten years in Siberia – such a mild sentence that it was practically a let-off. ‘The future seemed not so gloomy after all,’ Starostin wrote in a memoir. He knew why he’d been so fortunate. The Starostins ‘personified Spartak. Beria had to deal with the hopes of millions of fans, ordinary Soviet people.’

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Latest Sport & Society Journal papers

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on July 26, 2010
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The latest issue of  The International Journal of Sport and Society includes:

Announcing Location for 2011 Sport and Society Conference

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on July 17, 2010
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kolkataLocation and Date

The 2011 Sport and Society Conference will  be held in Kolkata, India at Unitedworld School of Business from 28 February - 2 March. For more information, please visit www.sportconference.com

Kolkata has been selected as the location for the 2011 conference as it is one of the host cities for the 2011 Cricket World Cup. As such participants will be immersed in the experience of the tournament. The dates also have been set to include the option of attending the India v. England match in the world famous Eden Gardens Stadium.

Call for Papers

If you intend to present a paper at the conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types, and other options, please click here. To submit a proposal click here and follow the online instructions. If your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the conference.

Registration

Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal.  Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. For registration options, or to register for the 2011 Sport and Society Conference, click here.

Themes

The themes for the International Sport and Society Conference are loosely grouped into five categories:

  • Theme 1: Sport’s Motivations
  • Theme 2: Identities in Sport
  • Theme 3: Sport and Health
  • Theme 4: Sports Education
  • Theme 5: Sports Organization
More details on these themes can be seen online here.

Scope and Concerns

The Sport and Society Conference scope and concerns is outlined here.

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Second issue of Sport and Society Journal now available

Published
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on July 5, 2010
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The second issue of  The International Journal of Sport and Society is now available.

Volume 1, Number 2 contains:

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