Articles
Diplomatic Heavyweights: Sumō Wrestlers and Japan-China Relations in the Early 1970s
Erik Esselstrom
Pages: 569-588 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2025.2532107
Open Access
Pucks, Politics, and Parochialism: The Collapse of the Boston Bruins’ 1981 Move to Salem, New Hampshire
Aaron Bonsu
Pages: 589-608 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2025.2486663
The Reeducation of Bill Walton: From Weak-Kneed Vegetarian Socialist to Born Again Capitalist
Travis Vogan
Pages: 609-626 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2025.2491526
Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and the Invention Of ‘Baseball’s Finest Moment’ That Never Was
Henry D. Fetter
Pages: 627-645 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2025.2530132

Reading Kristi Yamaguchi: Media, Multiculturalism, and the Double Process of Racialization
Jae Chul Seo, Donghyung Kim, Chengzhu Jin & Chanwoo Park
Pages: 646-665 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2025.2532845
Book Reviews
The Football War: The VFA and VFL’s Battle for Supremacy
By Xavier Fowler, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2024, 306 pp., AUD $39.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780522880076
Dale Blair
Pages: 666-668 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2025.2535206
Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL
By Thomas P. Oates, Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2017, 213 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9780252082443
Emalee Nelson Stone
Pages: 668-670 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2025.2535207
Gladiatoren: Die Wirklichkeit hinter der Legende (Gladiators: The reality behind the legend)
By Marcus Junkelmann, Oppenheim am Rhein, Nünnerich-Asmus Verlag & Media, 2022, 96 pp., 159 illustrations, €19.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-3-96176-196-8
Alfonso Manas
Pages: 670-673 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2025.2535208
Nadando contra las corrientes: Lilian Harrison y los cruces a nado en la década de 1920
By Matthew Brown and Pablo Ariel Scharagrodsky, Buenos Aires, Prometeo, 2024, 179 pp. Ills., £16.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-631-6604-28-6
David M. K. Sheinin
Pages: 674-675 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2025.2535209
American Sport in International History: The United States and the World Since 1865
by Daniel DuBois, London/New York/Dubin, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023, xviii + 237 pp., $90 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-35013-473-7
Qiang Wu & Ke Wu
Pages: 675-677 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2025.2535210