Thomas P. Oates is associate professor with the Department of American Studies and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL and the editor (with Travis Vogan) of Sports, Power, and Resistance: An … Read more
David Macfarlane is a journalist, playwright and novelist. His family memoir, The Danger Tree, was described by Christopher Hitchens as “one of the finest and most intriguing miniature elegies that I have read in many a year.” Macfarlane’s novel, Summer Gone, was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Based on The … Read more
Raziq Rauf is a running coach and journalist who writes about all things running on his popular Substack ‘Running Sucks’. He has previously written for the BBC, the Guardian, NPR and Kerrang!. He lives in Los Angeles. His new book, This Is Running: A Celebration of the World of Running, … Read more
Stewart Home was born and lives in London, England. He has been working as an artist and writer since the early 1980s and had a mid-career retrospective at White Columns in New York in 2011. He is the author of seventeen novels, eight books of cultural commentary, as well as … Read more
Dionne Koller is Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Sport and the Law at the University of Baltimore. She served as co-chair of the Commission on the State of U.S. Olympic and Paralympics, which delivered its final report to Congress in 2024. She has also has … Read more
Sabrina Little is an assistant professor of philosophy at Christopher Newport University. She specializes in virtue theory, moral psychology and character education. Her recent book, The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners (OUP 2024), explores how to use running as a laboratory for virtue formation. Sabrina is also … Read more
Simon Kuper is one of the world’s leading writers on football (soccer). He is the author of Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World’s Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power, which won the William Hill Prize for sports book of the year. He worked … Read more
Ben Valenta is the Senior Vice President of Strategy & Analytics for FOX Sports. In his previous life as a consultant, he advised an incredible array of clients, including Nike, the NFL, Anheuser-Busch InBev, YouTube, ESPN, National Geographic, MSNBC, NBC News, Livestrong, the New York Knicks and the New York … Read more
Sally Jenkins has been a Washington Post columnist and feature writer for more than twenty years. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2020 and has been named Sports Columnist of the Year five times by the Associated Press. She is the author of twelve books of non-fiction … Read more
Jessica Luther is an award-winning investigative journalist, author and podcaster. She has written extensively on the intersection of sports and gendered violence. She is the author of Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape and co-author of Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back: Dilemmas of the Modern … Read more