On an irregular but frequent basis, columnist Dick Crepeau reminds us that you don't have to be a good sport to be a bad loser. Dr. Crepeau's columns focus on sport in American and world culture. No aspect of sport is too large, too small, too over-hyped, or too obscure for Crepeau, as he ranges across the world of athletics with special attention to sport in the media and to the state of college sports in the U.S.
Dick Crepeau is Professor of History at the University of Central Florida, and one of the leading historians of American sport.
Submissions from 2001
Baseball's All-Star Game: Some History, Richard C. Crepeau
Danny Almonte: Little League Fantasy and Reality in the Age of the True Freshman, Richard C. Crepeau
Does Orlando Really Need a New Basketball Facility?, Richard C. Crepeau
Downsizing MLB, Richard C. Crepeau
Eddie Scissons Syndrome, Richard C. Crepeau
Football Begins Its Longest Season Ever - Signs of Opening Football Season, Richard C. Crepeau
Freedom of the Press and Sports: Not Always, Richard C. Crepeau
George O'Leary and Notre Dame's Integrity, Richard C. Crepeau
Hockey Night in Orlando: The End for the IHL, Richard C. Crepeau
Homosexuality and Sport, Richard C. Crepeau
In Memoriam: Al McGuire, Richard C. Crepeau
Knight Commission: Another Futile Attempt to Reform College Athletics, Richard C. Crepeau
Mario Lemieux, Jennifer Capriati, Richard C. Crepeau
Mark McGwire Leaves the Game: His Legacy, Richard C. Crepeau
Marty Glickman, Richard C. Crepeau
NBA and NHL Playoffs - Return of Baseball, Richard C. Crepeau
Not Exactly Super in Several Ways, Richard C. Crepeau
One of the Great Wimbledon Fortnights, Richard C. Crepeau
Origins of Baseball Revealed - Trying to Speed Up the Game, Richard C. Crepeau
Patriotism Post 9/11 and Contraction, Richard C. Crepeau
Pearl Harbor and Baseball, Richard C. Crepeau
Puckett and Winfield Enter HOF - Heat Claims Viking Player (Heat and Football), Richard C. Crepeau
Sound Pollution, Richard C. Crepeau
Sport and the Theater of the Absurd, Richard C. Crepeau
Sport Commemorates 9/11, Richard C. Crepeau
Sport in Time of National Crisis or Disaster, Richard C. Crepeau
Sports Drafts: The New N on-Events - XFL Championship - Mark Cuban and others, Richard C. Crepeau
Sport: The Original Reality TV - More death on the Overheated Football Fields, Richard C. Crepeau
Super Bowl XXXV and its Excesses, Richard C. Crepeau
Thanksgiving and Football, Richard C. Crepeau
The BCS and the Non-Sense it Spawns, Richard C. Crepeau
The Canadian Sports Scene Dominated by Hockey - Baseball a Footnote, Richard C. Crepeau
The Chess Ban In Minneapols Sparks Protest, Richard C. Crepeau
The Death of Dale Earnhardt, Richard C. Crepeau
The Eight Signs of March Madness, Richard C. Crepeau
The Kentucky Derby, Richard C. Crepeau
The Late but Still Great World Series: Bob Brenly is Blessed at the BOB, Richard C. Crepeau
The XFL: More X than FL, Richard C. Crepeau
The Year of Sport and Society in Review, Richard C. Crepeau
Tiger Woods is God: Check the Website, Richard C. Crepeau
US Open Tennis: A Little Bit of Everything Including Racism, Richard C. Crepeau
WWJS What Would Jesus Sell (For Sports), Richard C. Crepeau
X-ing Out the XFL, Richard C. Crepeau
Submissions from 2000
A Modest Proposal, Richard C. Crepeau
Australia's Olympics of Yesterday Today, Richard C. Crepeau
Baseball Around the World with Special Attention to Japan, Richard C. Crepeau
Baseball Bashes Itself in Blue Ribbon Report, Richard C. Crepeau
Baseball's Rising Salaries - Bud Lite At Congressional Hearing, Richard C. Crepeau
Bobby Knight, Richard C. Crepeau
Buying Cuba and other Absurdities, Richard C. Crepeau