Scattershot Politics: Sport and Its Serpentine Political Meanings

[Editor's note: We welcome back contributing writer and longtime friend Ryan Reft.  He's kindly allowed us to repost this essay from his groupblog Tropics of Meta.  For some of his past contributions to CultFootball see here, here and here.]

Over the past fifteen to twenty years, historians have increasingly emphasized the role of sports as both a driver and reflection of society.

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