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Mixed Zone blog
The Mixed Zone is the Great Game Lab’s content hub, a blog that curates our Fandom (recommendations), Scrimmages (roundtables), Scouting Reports (dispatches from the Great Game’s venues), and VARs (commentaries connecting the news to our core inquiries).
Rafa Márquez: El Capitán
We love the documentary film Rafa Márquez: El Capitán, and not just because it was written and produced by León Krauze, journalist and political analyst, and to our good fortune, fellow of the Great Game Lab.
The Good Game Podcast
Great Game🤝Good Game, or at least that’s how GGL Fellow Sarah Spain likes to put it, and we do too! Good Game with Sarah Spain is a daily women’s sports radio show and part of the iHeart Women’s Sports Audio Network.
Futbolera
We’ve recommended Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America by Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel in a number of our classes, and students are always grateful we did.
Deloitte’s Outlooks
Deloitte’s Sports Industry Outlook provides a great analysis of what to look for each coming year in the world of sports, from technological innovations to business disruptions to best practices in international sports megaevents.
Ajax, the Dutch, the War
So much of sport fandom is about nostalgia, but nostalgia and sport’s collective memory can be tricky when traced back to the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust.
Sunderland ‘Til I Die
There are many polished documentary series chronicling individual seasons of English football clubs (such as The All or Nothing series on Amazon Prime).
On NBA in China
While the NBA has enjoyed a long, loving relationship with China, things can go haywire very quickly when NBA star players or GMs decide to share their critical thoughts on China’s domestic politics and geopolitics.