Yago Colás teaches and writes about sports, culture, and society in the English Department at Oberlin College, where he also volunteers as assistant coach for the men’s varsity basketball team. He maintains the blog&nbsp;<a href="http://yagocolas.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://yagocolas.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1541019685943000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGo0QDw7wqRu57jNauGn3gVQO3cHQ">Between the Lines</a>, has appeared on NPR, Slate, Politico&nbsp;and <a href="http://espn.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://ESPN.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1541019685943000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF-uYklPjwQ_sKeT8yrrc5u6daNSw">ESPN.com</a>&nbsp;and is the author of Ball Don’t Lie! Myth, Genealogy, and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball&nbsp;(Temple University Press, 2016) and is currently writing Numbers Don’t Lie! Counting and What Counts in Basketball&nbsp;(forthcoming, University of Nebraska Press, 2020).

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<div>Theresa Runstedtler is Associate Professor of History at American University. She is the author of Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line (University of California Press, 2012), a&nbsp;book that examines the first African American world heavyweight champion’s legacy as a black sporting hero and anticolonial icon in the early 1900s. Her second book project in progress explores questions of blackness, masculinity, labor, and criminalization through the lens of professional basketball's so-called Dark Ages of the 1970s. In another life, she was a member of the Toronto Raptors Dance Pak in the late 1990s.</div>
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<div class="tb f5">Brian R. Jacobson&nbsp;is author of&nbsp;Studios Before the System (Columbia University Press, 2015) and&nbsp;professor of visual culture at Caltech.</div>

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