Throwbacks: A Newsletter About Sports History and Culture

Throwbacks: A Newsletter About Sports History and Culture

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The Week's Top Five: The Fox Scorebug Is A Watershed Moment for America (1994)
Plus: Preseason Sports Illustrated predictions, bad lists of sports movies, and weird performative nostalgia.
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Michael Weinreb
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College Football Makes No Sense. But what Does Right Now?
America is in a weird place. But college football is a reminder that we've always been weird.
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Michigan Embraces the Big Lie (2012)
So much for being "too smart for college football."
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The Week's Top Five: Streakers, Sex Toys, and The (Possible) Redemption of Barry Bonds
Plus: Edward Sharpe and the "Worst Song Ever."
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Charlie Weis and the unforgivable sin of ineptitude (2007)
The unifying theme of coaching and politics: No one wants an arrogant loser.
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The Week's Top Five: Lou Piniella Sells Jeans (and the Patriarchy), etc.
One man's attempt at a notes column.
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Jerry Jones Walks in Circles (1993)
The last hurrah of the NFL's emptiest showman.
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A Watershed Moment for Satire? (1974)
Arnold Roth, MAD Magazine, Colbert...and South Park.
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July 2025

Football, Violence and Modernity (1976)
It may be a morally complex sport, but it was not better back then.
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Michael Weinreb
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The Endorsement: Larry David as George Steinbrenner (1996)
How the Steinbrenner Voice became America's voice.
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The Bigot Who Poisoned the NFL (1961)
Amid yet another strange week in America, the ghost of George Preston Marshall resurfaces.
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Did a professional golfer just signal a vibe-shift? (2011)
On Scottie Scheffler and the (hopeful) end of the age of #winning.
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