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Sports bettors watching a horse race.

Oil in the Can

A history of horse racing, it's slang, and handicapping.

by Eric Banks via Lapham’s Quarterly on June 1, 2016

Two paintings of sports: Jean Jacoby's Corner, left, and Rugby. At the 1928 Olympic Art Competitions in Amsterdam, Jacoby won a gold medal for Rugby.

When the Olympics Gave Out Medals for Art

In the modern Olympics’ early days, painters, sculptors, writers and musicians battled for gold, silver and bronze.

by Joseph Stromberg via Smithsonian on July 25, 2012

Mack Robinson.

Black Champions: Interview with Mack Robinson

Olympic track and field athlete reflects on the exclusion of African Americans from professional sports and the role his brother Jackie played in changing that.

via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on May 21, 1985

Jim Brown.

Black Champions: Interview with Jim Brown

On inclusion of African American athletes in college sports.

via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on January 19, 1985

Black Champions: Interview with Curt Flood

On traveling through the Jim Crow south as the sole Black athlete on a baseball team.

via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on November 16, 1984

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