Sports Historian, Professor @georgiatech, and author. Next book: JUMPMAN: THE MAKING AND MEANING OF MICHAEL JORDAN.
Atlanta, Georgia
Joined January 2013
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JUMPMAN: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan hits bookstores on November 7! #NBA #ChicagoBulls #BookTwitter
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"Bill Gates, Barack Obama, and Oprah Winfrey all share a daily habit that most Americans have quietly abandoned: READING BOOKS.
According to a new JPMorgan survey of more than 100 billionaires, reading ranks as the top habit that elite achievers have in common. Daily reading for pleasure has plummeted some 40% over the past two decades."
via @FortuneMagazine
fortune.com/2026/01/06/ameri…
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The bestselling team of Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith came on our show to discuss their acclaimed new book on heavyweight champ & icon Joe Louis.
Watch here:
youtu.be/edazvrDWPkc?si=jJi6…
Listen here: buzzsprout.com/2445404/episo…
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Closing out 2025 with the best sports book I've read this year--"Blood Brothers," about the friendship and breakup of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X. Spectacular writing, deep research, great slice of American history.
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We are absolutely thrilled to celebrate the publication of "THE FIGHT OF HIS LIFE: Joe Louis's Battle for Freedom during World War II," by Randy Roberts (@RrobertsSports) and Johnny Smith (@SportsHistProf)—the story of the boxing champion whose fight against the Nazis inside and outside of the ring made him a global icon.
“A sharp, hard-hitting, beautifully written account of one of the greatest sports figures in all American history," says @jonathaneig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of "King: A Life."
AVAILABLE NOW: bit.ly/47nDoT7
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Everyone who studied the matchup concluded the Lions win w/ 40 runs + 25 passes. Instead we get 43 passes + 23 runs. Go figure.
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This bakery in Rochester, Michigan made Amon-Ra St. Brown’s head stand celebration completely out of CAKE 🤯
📸: r/Yetugs | #OnePride
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Amon-Ra St. Brown told me the #Lions installed the fake stumble TD pass play THIS wk. DET called it earlier in the game but didn’t get the look they wanted, so they waited. Right before LaPorta scored, St. Brown heard the crowd groan, and he KNEW it was done perfectly #OnePride
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Back in the lab ✍🏻
Looking forward to working on book # 2, an @eerdmansbooks project.
It explores how Christians have shaped the sport of basketball, from Naismith to the present, and the deeper meanings they’ve found in the game.
History, theology, cultural analysis 🏀
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Pretty crazy someone can be charged federally with interfering in an election and those charges get dropped because they win an election.
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There is significant evidence to suggest that when Pam Bondi was the Attorney General of Florida she was bribed by Donald Trump to avoid an investigation into fraud at Trump University. nytimes.com/2016/09/15/us/po…
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Pam Bondi, Trump's new Attorney General nominee, recently registered as a foreign agent to lobby on behalf of Qatar. Specifically, she's helping Qatar whitewash its awful record on human trafficking.
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America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth.
The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
