Tava: Eastern European Baking and Desserts From Romania & Beyond by Irina Georgescu

Downtown Abbey cookbooks (also have lots of great stills from the show)

Why FIFA is struggling to sell tickets for USMNT’s World Cup opener vs. Paraguay (Gift Article) A sales document distributed to local organizers shows that plenty of seats are still available for the World Cup cohosts' first match

REVEALED:

@theathleticfc.bsky.social has seen official “tickets purchased” numbers for World Cup group games at 70k SoFi Stadium near LA.

Sales for high-priced USMNT opener are lagging significantly (40k tickets purchased) behind games such as Iran v New Zealand.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/721...

Mark Your Player, Exploit the Space: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Canadian Multiculturalism through a Historicization of Soccer and the Men’s National Team (1970s–2000s) | Journal of Canadian Studies The storying of the Canadian men’s national soccer team has established immigration, multiculturalism, and transnationalism as a linchpin of the team’s climb from relative obscurity. This was transparent in the framing of the team leading up to and during the team’s historic appearance at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, following a 36 year-long campaign to return to the tournament. The contemporary phenomenon of celebrating ‘outsiders,’ particularly Black men, through the national team prompts the question: What has been soccer’s role in the narrative arc of Canadian multiculturalism? A widely mediated rhetoric that transmits curated information (propaganda about a nation here, for instance) raises questions as to whom it benefits. Canadian soccer notably channels a paradoxical process wherein the Other’s hypervisibility is framed as integral to Canadianness. Celebrated Black players on the national soccer squad emerge as ‘aliens’—in an ‘alien sport.’ This mechanism underscores the centrality of Whiteness at the turn of the twenty-first century that delineates multiculturalism through race. Using the team’s qualification for the 2022 Qatar World Cup as fulcrum, the aim is to explore the history of multicultural soccer’s significance in national identity (de/re)construction leading up to that moment. To unpack this, I present a historical investigation of soccer’s intersection with race, ethnicity, multiculturalism, and nationalism in Canada. This is done through an overview of the rhetoric around soccer multiculturalism from the late 1970s to the early 2000s through the Toronto Globe and Mail.

My lil paper on 'soccer multiculturalism' in Canada.

Mark Your Player, Exploit the Space: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Canadian Multiculturalism through a Historicization of Soccer and the Men’s National Team (1970s–2000s)

#FIFAWorldCup

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Whoa! It’s hard to buy delicata squash over here but you can get the seeds easy enough. (No idea how difficult it is as I don’t have an allotment but my friends have grown them for me so I guess not too difficult?)

Kicking Around International Sport: West Germany's Return to the International Community Through Football In 1948, the American Military Government worked with Swiss soccer officials to organise Germany's first post-war international matches, three simultaneous German–Swiss intercity games. The America...

There is a soon to be published @ijhs.bsky.social article on the Dutch total football. I also suggest my work on football during the German occupation & the country’s return to FIFA

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Princess Grace exhibit at the Grimaldi Forum in 2007 was amazing with one room entirely on the wedding so I can imagine how great this one will be!

Gritty is bringing violence to the playoffs with his personal vendetta against the Penguins mascot: ‘Tick tock, little bird’ Gritty was not yet the Flyers mascot the last time Philly played the Penguins in the playoffs, but his vendetta against their mascot, Iceburgh, has been there since Day 1.

Gritty is bringing violence to the playoffs with his personal vendetta against the Penguins mascot: ‘Tick tock, little bird’ www.inquirer.com/flyers/gritt...

Cake details!

Super easy to make. Alas, they must all be eaten the same day as they just aren’t as good the next day. (Ok not really a problem…)

This weekend Leicester Tigers Rugby Club will reach a major #sportshistory milestone when they play their 5000th fixture against Newcastle Red Bull.

#LeicesterTigers #Rugby #RugbyHistory

For 3 books on sport history, I suggest my edited book Soccer Diplomacy. Schiller & Young, The 1972 Munich Olympics. Xu Guoqi, Olympic Dreams: China & Sports

Found in the Densho Digital Repository

A photograph of a baseball game at the Tule Lake incarceration camp in California. A large crowd of spectators watches the game in close proximity to the field. Original WRA caption: "Championship game between Hillmen and West Sacramento."
🗃 #skystorians

Really glad to have @barnethartston.bsky.social new article in @ijhs.bsky.social
#sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️

I got to talk about sport boycotts in this BBC World Service program on Eurovision! #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️ #eurovision

The Inquiry - How will countries boycotting Eurovision affect the contest? - BBC Sounds The song contest faces one of its biggest crises in 70 years as five countries withdraw

Great to hear @hdichter.bsky.social of @icshc.bsky.social @dmu.ac.uk on BBC World Service's The Inquiry, discussing 'How will countries boycotting Eurovision affect the contest?', making comparisons & contrasts between sporting boycotts and Eurovision's current crisis www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Ok that’s the slightly harder part

They are great! I get so many products from them. If you spend like £50 it’s free shipping…

I order from cool chile & have them ship everything to Leicester

My first ODNB entry is published - Tony Nash, GB 🇬🇧 bobsled pilot who won 🥇 at the 1964 Winter Olympics #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️ #olympics

Marie-Louise Eta

Marie-Louise Eta has become the first-ever female head coach in the history of the men's Bundesliga and the first-ever female head coach of a men's side in European football's top five leagues.

Marie-Louise Eta replaces Steffen Baumgart at Union Berlin for the remaining season.

Was an amazing concert last night!

I contacted a journal when a similar thing happened to me - noting they adhere to COPE & the journal’s ethics statement. They immediately blurred the article out (it had a doi) and eventually put a retraction notice up. So it can work!

There isn’t as much written on sport after Antiquity & before the mid-1800s, but perhaps check what is published? I can’t remember if there is anything in the volume on that period in the cultural history of sport (bloomsbury) but that might be a good first place

Interested in the history of sport? Considering postgraduate study? Want a distance-learning course that is flexible and offers full and part-time study routes? Our MA Sports History and Culture could be for you! @icshc.bsky.social @dmu.ac.uk
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Michigan 2013 men’s basketball team in maize shirts & shorts as the background image of a powerpoint slide on Winter Sport history

Background photo of a basketball player in a maize jersey dunking the ball into the hoop with a photo of Fridtjof Nansen in the lower right corner

A black and white photo of a woman being fitted with skis from the 1930s inside a department store on the left and a basketball player in a maize uniform screaming after scoring a basket on the right

Slide naming the first four winter Olympic hosts with a tiled background photo of a Michigan basketball player in a maize uniform dunking on a Syracuse player in an orange uniform

In 2013 when I taught at Ithaca & 〽️ichigan beat Syracuse to go to the NCAA title game I had so much fun making my lecture slides for the day of the championship. Almost makes me wish I were teaching tomorrow (but not really as it’s 4:30 am in the UK & also my students here wouldn’t get it) #GoBlue

GO BLUE

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

Yes! Another amazing WordPerfect feature

I wrote my whole PhD on it

WordPerfect is still the superior word processing program. It figured out how to have text on the left & right side of the same line without hitting tab a bunch of times & then backspace & space again. Only charges you once, not annually, & as far as I can tell hasn’t added ai. Canadian company too!

Agree; it’s heartening to see @inquirer.com meeting the moment while serving the best city in the world.

I’m really excited to share that Made by History is partnering with @inquirer.com & will be publishing again soon.

Historians, pitch us at madebyhistory@inquirer.com.