Football is the most popular sport on the planet partly because it’s so simple to play – but as philosopher, novelist and avid fan Stephen Mumford shows, be

Human beings are the only creatures known to engage in sport. We are sporting animals, and our favourite pastime of football is the biggest sport spectacle on e

This collection of incisive articles gives a leading team of international philosophers a free kick toward exploring the complex and often hidden contours of th

Over the past forty years, football has surpassed baseball as America's favorite game. The game has become an institution of our national culture: the Super Bow

What do we think about when we think about football? Football is about so many things: memory, history, place, social class, gender (especially masculinity, but