Welcome to the Corpus.*
A collaborative, open online space maintained by the graduate students of the Physical Cultural Studies research group at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dedicated to critical discussions of physical culture in all its sociocultural, historical, and everyday material forms. Public ideas/writings are welcomed and encouraged. Posts express the sole opinion of the author(s). They are not the expressed opinion of the Physical Cultural Studies program as a whole.
*This page is under construction as we dig through the archives to retrieve old posts.
Throwback to Neverwas
This upcoming Major League Baseball season, the Atlanta Braves will incorporate an alternate throwback-style uniform, without any of the mess of the actual history they commemorate. Since the Braves have taken to re-writing history, I have followed their lead and re-written the news report about the jersey’s unveiling.
Sporting Family
When Bill O’Brien was introduced as the new head football coach at Penn State University my first reaction was the same as many people – “Who?” However, while I was doing research for a journal article I read the transcript of the introductory press conference and was taken aback by something O’Brien said. The former New England Patriots offensive coordinator said he would be the new leader of the “Penn State football family.”