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An Open Letter to Chris Webber: You Are Loved
Dear Mr. Webber, You don’t know me. And I don’t know you, though I know some of your close friends. So let me first introduce myself. In 1993, when your heart was broken in front of a national...
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Now what? Reflections on My Final Four
Today is Tuesday. But it doesn’t feel like any Tuesday. I’ve been through something, though I’m not yet sure what it is. I’ve been through it with my wife and family and friends, with my students and...
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There is No GOAT and Why that “truth” Will Set You Free
I approach teaching Cultures of Basketball with the hope I can make the course and each class meeting more than just a forum for the kind of discussion a fan might have in a dorm room or sports bar...
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What is Hoops Culture Class For? Unleashing Humanity
Here’s what I see when I walk into Cultures of Basketball on the first day. I’m not proud of this, nor am I proud of confessing it, but I’m saying it because I think it may be productive to...
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A Last Bit of Hoops Culture Awesomeness
And then this happened: Tagged: Basketball, Cultures of Basketball, Harlem Shake, Teaching, University of Michigan
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What ‘Sheed Says When He Says “Ball Don’t Lie!”
“Pistons Sheed” (Nathan McKee, 2014, Giclee Print, 13 x 19) In my post yesterday, I analyzed the structure of a foul call in an NBA game to show that a foul doesn’t cause the whistle to blow (as the...
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That’s a Bad Prof Right There
A couple of clips from last night’s Yago’s A-Town Throwdown, the 2015 Cultures of Basketball intra-class 3 on 3 tournament, without further commentary. Tagged: Bad Prof, Basketball, Cultures of...
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One Shining Moment: Yago’s A-Town Throwdown Edition
Probably anyone reading this knows by now that my Cultures of Basketball course ends with a student organized intra-class 3 on 3 tournament. What started as an off-hand comment by a UM basketball...
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