Welcome to Advanced Topics in Literature: Sports.
Sports Literature is emphatically not about child's play or diversion; it is a ground on which one meets personally, and learns values about work, family, politics, and the culture that is America.
Sports illuminate and transform a society. Sports change lives, affect politics, fuel our economy, and shape our culture. The American Dream is personified in our champions, in the records they set and the barriers they break. The dynamic interaction of athletes, fans, and the media produces inexplicable loyalties, lasting legends, and revered heroes. The greatest champions stand for more than the records they break. They stand for the barriers they shatter—physical, social, psychological, racial, cultural—and change the way we think about our world.
