List of Interviews
- David George Surdham, "The Big Leagues Go to Washington: Congress and Sports Antitrust, 1951-1989" (U of Illinois Press, 2015)
- Eric Reed, "Selling the Yellow Jersey: The Tour de France in the Global Era" (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
- Samir Chopra, "Eye on Cricket: Reflections on the Great Game" (HarperCollins India, 2015)
- James A. Holstein, Richard S. Jones, George Koonce, Jr., "Is There Life After Football? Surviving the NFL" (New York UP, 2014)
- Jules Boykoff, "Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London" (Rutgers University Press, 2014)
- Eric Allen Hall, "Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)
- Matthew Algeo, "Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk Was America's Favorite Spectator Sport" (Chicago Review Press, 2014)
- Stefan Rinke and Kay Schiller (editors), "The FIFA World Cup 1930-2010: Politics, Commerce, Spectacle and Identities" (Wallstein, 2014)
- J.C. Herz, "Learning to Breath Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness" (Crown Archetype, 2014)
- Roger Kittleson, "The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil" (University of California Press, 2014) and Joshua Nadel, "Fútbol! Why Soccer Matters in Latin America" (University Press of Florida, 2014)
- Travis Vogan, "Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media" (University of Illinois Press, 2014)
- Lucia Trimbur, "Come Out Swinging: The Changing World of Boxing in Gleason’s Gym" (Princeton University Press, 2013))
- Lincoln Harvey, "A Brief Theology of Sport" (SCM Press, 2014)
- Brett Hutchins and David Rowe, "Sport Beyond Television: The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of Networked Media Sport" (Routledge, 2013)
- N. Jeremi Duru, "Advancing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in the NFL" (Oxford University Press, 2011)
- Jules Boykoff, "Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games" (Routledge, 2013)
- John Matthew Smith, "The Sons of Westwood: John Wooden, UCLA, and the Dynasty That Changed College Basketball" (University of Illinois Press, 2013)
- The 2013 Year-End Episode
- Peter Westwick and Peter Neushul, "The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing" (Crown, 2013)
- Lindsay Krasnoff, "The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France, 1958-2010" (Lexington Books, 2012)
- The NBS Fall Seminar: Sports Memoirs
- David Little, "The Sports Show: Athletics as Image and Spectacle" (University of Minnesota Press, 2012)
- Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann (editors), "Africa's World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space" (University of Michigan Press, 2013)
- Tony Collins, "Sport in Capitalist Society: A Short History" (Routledge, 2013)
- Chris Anderson and David Sally, "The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong" (Penguin, 2013)
- Peter Hansen, "The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment" (Harvard University Press, 2013)
- Samir Chopra, "Brave New Pitch: The Evolution of Modern Cricket" (HarperCollins, 2012)
- The NBS Summer Seminar: Sports Books for Children
- Ron Kaplan, "501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die" (University of Nebraska Press, 2013)
- Martin Kelner, "Sit Down and Cheer: A History of Sport on TV" (Bloomsbury, 2012)
- Simon Martin, "Sport Italia: The Italian Love Affair with Sport" (I.B. Tauris, 2011)
- Andrew Zimbalist, "In the Best Interests of Baseball: Governing the National Pastime" (University of Nebraska Press, 2013)
- Dennis Deninger, "Sports on Television: The How and Why Behind What You See" (Routledge, 2012)
- Steven Riess, "The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime: Horse Racing, Politics, and Organized Crime in New York, 1865-1913" (Syracuse University Press, 2011)
- David George Surdam, "The Rise of the National Basketball Association" (University of Illinois Press, 2012)
- The 2012 Year-End Book List Episode
- Brett Bebber, "Violence and Racism in Football: Politics and Cultural Conflict in British Society, 1968-1998" (Pickering & Chatto, 2011)
- Andrei Markovits and Emily Albertson, "Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States" (Temple University Press, 2012)
- Donald Spivey, "'If You Were Only White': The Life of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige" (University of Missouri Press, 2012)
- Chris Cooper, "Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat: The Science Behind Drugs in Sport" (Oxford University Press, 2012)
- Theresa Runstedtler, "Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line" (University of California Press, 2012)
- Guy Fraser-Sampson, "Cricket at the Crossroads: Class, Colour and Controversy from 1967 to 1977" (Elliott & Thompson, 2011)
- Laurent Dubois, "Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France" (University of California Press, 2011)
- Greg de Moore, "Tom Wills: First Wild Man of Australian Sport" (Allen & Unwin, 2011)
- Lisa Bier, "Fighting the Current: The Rise of American Women's Swimming, 1870-1926" (McFarland, 2011)
- The NBS Summer Seminar: Understanding the Olympic Games
- David Davis, "Showdown at Shepherd's Bush: The 1908 Olympic Marathon and the Three Runners Who Launched a Sporting Craze" (Thomas Dunne Books, 2012)
- Brian Ingrassia, "The Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Education's Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football" (University Press of Kansas, 2012)
- Kevin Young, "Sport, Violence and Society" (Routledge, 2012)
- Timothy Grainey, "Beyond 'Bend It Like Beckham': The Global Phenomenon of Women's Soccer" (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)
- David J. Leonard, "After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness" (SUNY Press, 2012)
- John Fox, "The Ball: Discovering the Object of the Game" (HarperCollins, 2012)
- The NBS Spring Seminar: Understanding European Football
- Robert Lipsyte, "An Accidental Sportswriter: A Memoir" (Ecco, 2011)
- Paul Dickson, "Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick" (Walker & Company, 2012)
- Rob Fitts, "Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan" (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)
- Randy Roberts, "A Team for America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011)
- Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, "Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2010)
- Paul Watson, "Up Pohnpei: A Quest to Reclaim the Soul of Football by Leading the World's Ultimate Underdogs to Glory" (Profile Books, 2012)
- Richard Wilson, "Inside the Divide: One City, Two Teams, the Old Firm" (Canongate, 2012)
- Gideon Haigh, "Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents" (Victory Books, 2010)
- Mary Louise Adams, "Artistic Impressions: Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport" (University of Toronto Press, 2011)
- John Bloom, "There You Have It: The Life, Legacy, and Legend of Howard Cosell" (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010)
- Peter Millward, "The Global Football League: Transnational Networks, Social Movements and Sport in the New Media Age" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
- Stephen Mumford, "Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion" (Routledge, 2011)
- Roy MacGregor, "Wayne Gretzky's Ghost: And Other Tales from a Lifetime in Hockey" (Random House Canada, 2011)
- Andrew Ritchie, "Quest for Speed: A History of Early Bicycle Racing 1868-1903" (Cycle Publishing, 2011)
- Dennis Frost, "Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan" (Harvard UP, 2011)
- Randy Roberts, "Joe Louis: Hard Times Man" (Yale UP, 2010)
- The New Books in Sports 2011 Year-End Book List
- Andrei Markovits, "Gaming the World: How Sports Are Shaping Global Politics and Culture" (Princeton UP, 2010)
- Ronald Reng, "A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke" (Yellow Jersey Press, 2011)
- David Potter, "The Victor’s Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium (Oxford University Press, 2011)
- Jorge Iber, "Latinos in U.S. Sport: A History of Isolation, Cultural Identity, and Acceptance" (Human Kinetics, 2011)
- Teddy Jamieson, "Whose Side Are You On?: Sport, the Troubles, and Me" (Yellow Jersey Press, 2011)
- Jennifer Ring, "Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don't Play Baseball" (University of Illinois Press, 2009)
- Dave Zirin, "The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment that Changed the World" (Haymarket Books, 2011)
- Kay Schiller and Christopher Young, "The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany" (University of California Press, 2010)
- Scott Brooks, "Black Men Can't Shoot" (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
- Allen Guttmann, "Sports and American Art from Benjamin West to Andy Warhol" (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011)
- Andrew Morris, "Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan" (University of California Press, 2010)
- John Eric Goff, "Gold Medal Physics: The Science of Sports" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2009)
- Evander Lomke and Martin Rowe, "Right Off the Bat: Cricket, Baseball, Literature & Life" (Paul Dry Books, 2011)
- Tony Collins, "A Social History of English Rugby Union" (Routledge, 2009)
- Todd Denault, "The Greatest Game: The Montreal Canadiens, the Red Army, and the Night that Saved Hockey" (McClelland & Stewart, 2010)
- Lee Congdon, "Baseball and Memory: Winning, Losing, and Remembrance of Things Past" (St. Augustine's Press, 2011)
- Don Van Natta, Jr., "Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias" (Little, Brown, and Company, 2011)
- Michael Oriard, " Brand NFL: Making and Selling America's Favorite Sport" (UNC Press, 2010)
- Charles Clotfelter, "Big-Time College Sports in American Universities" (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
- Gavin Mortimer, "The Great Swim" (Walker Books, 2008)
- Chuck Korr, "More Than Just a Game—Soccer vs. Apartheid: The Greatest Soccer Story Ever Told" (Thomas Dunne Books, 2010)
- Kurt Kemper, "College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era" (University of Illinois Press, 2009)
- Erik Jensen, "Body by Weimar: Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity" (Oxford UP, 2010)
- Aram Goudsouzian, “King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution” (University of California, 2010)
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