Recently added articles from Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature:
Capoeira Angola and the novels of Jorge Amado.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... During a stay in Brazil a couple of years ago, my wife, son, and 1 were invited to a Sunday afternoon open house at the private religious school where one of her nephews is enrolled--an afternoon of barbecue, guarana (Brazil's favorite soft drink), beer, fellowship, and light entertainment ...
Presence, sport and falling short: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and Lili Alvarez.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... During the UK coverage of the first quarter of Super Bowl XLI, a US commentator remarked: "When you force athletes to think, they make mistakes." (1) This casual observation unwittingly echoed the brain versus brawn exclusivity cliche that seems stubbornly prevalent within academic and ...
The Olympic games, 393-1896: the survival of an idea in European Literature.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... On November 12, 2003, at the Athens Concert Hall and performing under the baton of Nikos Tsouchlos, the Virtuosi di Praga presented excerpts chosen from several different versions of Pietro Metastasio's magnificent 18th century libretto, L'Olympiade. The performance itself was a pastiche ...
Grappling in Israel.(Personal account)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Being an account of a Canadian wrestling team competing in Israel at the first memorial tournament honouring the victims of the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre ********** As appointed coach of the Canadian wrestling tea m for the 1980 Moscow Olympics, I had to deal with ...
Canadian 'puck lit': permanent minor league resident or promising big league prospect?(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... The common refrain of literary observers critiquing the quantity and quality of literature dedicated to hockey is, while hockey produces admirably in the former consideration--on average, twenty-five to forty new works on the game arrive in bookstores annually--it is in the latter where ...