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Vol. 12 (2000) through current issueLatest Articles: Journal of Policy HistoryTWOProject MUSE®Journal of Policy History1528-41900898-0306Latest articles in Journal of Policy History. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Compensation for College Athletes: The American Saga of Commercialization in Intercollegiate Sports
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985569
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Between 2021 and 2025, national media gave attention to federal court cases and legislation that established new policies for increasing the compensation of college athletes. Foremost was "NIL," acronym for the "Name-Image-Likeness" payment guidelines.1 Although NIL was hailed as a "whole new ball game" for students as paid athletes, our research tempers the news coverage by drawing from historical findings about trends and traditions in college sports. Compensation and commercialization in American intercollegiate athletics—and issues involving the rights of college students and the governance of college sports—have been central to intercollegiate athletics from their founding.2Along with historical continuity, a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/102/image/coversmallCompensation for College Athletes: The American Saga of Commercialization in Intercollegiate Sports2026-03-19text/htmlen-USCompensation for College Athletes: The American Saga of Commercialization in Intercollegiate Sports2026-03-192026TWOProject MUSE®1294772026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-19Congestion on the Pitch: Growth and Conflict in Georgia Youth Soccer
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985570
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In United States sports culture, the state of Georgia is perhaps most closely associated with the American version of football. The University of Georgia won national collegiate titles in 2021 and 2022 and regularly sells out its 93,000-seat stadium. Mercedez-Benz Stadium in Atlanta hosts the National Football League's Atlanta Falcons, along with thousands of spectators at top-level college and high school games during the championship season. Football is by far the most popular sport at the high school level, with 32,445 players in the 2023–24 season.1 And Georgia ranks first in the number of homegrown NFL players per capita, with one per 74,908 people as of 2025.2However, soccer is rapidly becoming a major sport
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/102/image/coversmallCongestion on the Pitch: Growth and Conflict in Georgia Youth Soccer2026-03-19text/htmlen-USCongestion on the Pitch: Growth and Conflict in Georgia Youth Soccer2026-03-192026TWOProject MUSE®717132026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-19FDR's Green Light Letter: Simple Decision, Complex Consequences
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985571
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On the afternoon of December 7, 1941, as word of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor spread slowly, then swiftly across the United States, owners of the sixteen major league baseball teams were making their way to Chicago for their winter meeting, scheduled to begin the next day. The main item on the mostly routine advance agenda was a proposal by St. Louis Browns owner Donald Barnes to move his team, long unsuccessful at both winning games and attracting paying customers, to Los Angeles. Barnes's proposal, which would have required even the league's westernmost clubs to travel about 2,000 miles each way, immediately went from being controversial (no team had changed locations since the formation of Organized
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/102/image/coversmallFDR's Green Light Letter: Simple Decision, Complex Consequences2026-03-19text/htmlen-USFDR's Green Light Letter: Simple Decision, Complex Consequences2026-03-192026TWOProject MUSE®1008492026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-19A #1 Draft Choice: How Jack Kemp Learned Politics
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985572
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In 1960, nobody wanted to pay Jack Kemp to play quarterback, much less cared how he voted. Too small to get recruited out of Los Angeles's Fairfax High by local football powerhouses like the University of Southern California or the University of California, Los Angeles despite making second-team all-city, Kemp starred at Occidental College in Pasadena before being drafted in the seventeenth round in 1957 by the Detroit Lions, who traded him to the Pittsburgh Steelers before the season began. Mired in mediocrity that saw them finish between third and sixth every season from 1950 to 1960, the Steelers nonetheless provided Kemp only scattered mop-up opportunities. He hardly seized his chance, completing eight of 18
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/102/image/coversmallA #1 Draft Choice: How Jack Kemp Learned Politics2026-03-19text/htmlen-USA #1 Draft Choice: How Jack Kemp Learned Politics2026-03-192026TWOProject MUSE®1132482026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-19"Every Practical Step": The Gleneagles Agreement and Sporting Links with Apartheid South Africa during the Thatcher Years
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985573
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The study of international sporting boycotts has become something of a cottage industry in recent decades. A growing body of historians, heralding from a variety of subdisciplines, have examined a range of efforts targeting specific countries or events, carefully dissecting how the initiatives unfolded, who was involved, and why it all happened in the first place. Importantly, some scholars have assessed whether the boycott lever succeeded. In doing so, they invariably highlight, intentionally or not, the complex connection between the phenomenon of modern sport and the intricate dynamics of local and global affairs. Most sporting boycotts, it turns out, do not seem to work. Efforts, for instance, to prevent
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/102/image/coversmall"Every Practical Step": The Gleneagles Agreement and Sporting Links with Apartheid South Africa during the Thatcher Years2026-03-19text/htmlen-US"Every Practical Step": The Gleneagles Agreement and Sporting Links with Apartheid South Africa during the Thatcher Years2026-03-192026TWOProject MUSE®1205452026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-19