"High Flying Bird’s" Lukácsian dramatization of class struggle remains trapped, visually and narratively, in a neoliberal perceptual apparatus....

Kieran Setiya interviews philosopher Alva Noë about his book, Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher on the Ballpark....

Michael Agovino explores the formal and stylistic echoes between soccer and jazz....

Samantha N. Sheppard thinks about the back and forth between social injustice, social progress, and the institutional power of the NBA in Showtime's Shut Up and Dribble....

Taylor Larsen praises “The Hazards of Good Fortune,” a new novel by Seth Greenland....

Connor Goodwin on "University of Nike," Joshua Hunt's look at how companies like Nike control institutions of higher learning....

On the inevitability of professional basketball...

On brain trauma, Budweiser, Steamin' Willie Beamen, and the blurring of Colin Kaepernick's dissent....

To kick off our new sports and culture column, LARB Ball, Brian Jacobson thinks about the labors of the World Cup....

Dan Friedman offers a list of books for those obsessed or perplexed by the World Cup....

Joshua W. Jackson reviews David Wanczyk's "Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind."...

Seth Greenland reviews Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's new memoir, "Coach Wooden and Me."...

On how the NFL achieved "corporate transcendence" and what the era of Kapernick means for it....

Emily Nemens on Fox's new series "Pitch" and Major League Baseball's latest attempt to stay relevant....

Julian Gewirtz interviews Jill Bialosky on baseball and poetry....

David Davis interviews John Carlos, the 1968 Summer Olympics track athlete whose Black Power salute caused much political controversy....

Exploitative Labor in America's Favorite Sport...