Sports History, Culture, Politics, and Other Assorted Minutiae

Welcome to Throwbacks: A Newsletter About Sports History and Culture by me, Michael Weinreb.

I’m a free agent writer/journalist and the author of four books, including Season of Saturdays: A History of College Football in 14 Games. I’ve been writing about sports and its relationship to American culture and history for…well, a long time, for Rolling Stone and Grantland and The Ringer and The Athletic and others. Sports are now, and always have been, an apt reflection of our history and culture: Messy and inequitable and controversial and undeniably beautiful.

Some of it will be tied to specific anniversaries; some of it will be tied to what’s in the news. Some of it may emerge from my fascination with certain dusty corners of the Internet.

If you’re into that sort of thing, join me and we’ll examine where we’ve been, and what it all means, with a few inevitable digressions along the way.

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