Yago Colás
Biographic Data
| ID | 314850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yago Colás |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yago |
| FAMILY NAME | Colás |
| SIGNATURE | COLÁS Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Culture of Moving Dots
Advanced analytics in professional basketball depends heavily on digital technologies for acquiring and processing data and for representing and disseminating performance evaluation. These digital technologies have transformed the tactics, techniques, and styles of play in the sport in little over five years. They have also transformed the tools, methods, and contents of historical thinking—whether scholarly or popular—about the sport’s developme…
Visualizing Basketball's Past
ESPN's 22 basketball-themed documentaries are popular and influential sources for students and fans interested in basketball history. I offer close readings of two films, There's No Place Like Home and The Fab Five, to shed light on how they (and to some degree the corpus as a whole) portray basketball history, reflect on the historiographical task of portraying the past, and affectively engage viewers to adopt certain stances with respect to the…
Our Myth of Creation
From basketball's invention in 1891, changes in the sport and in society have sparked contentious discussion over the nature of basketball, as well as over the techniques and tactics that ostensibly best embody and convey that nature. Investigating these discussions, I have identified clusters of recurrent stories, metaphors, and images arising around key events and personalities. In this essay, I analyze, historicize, and offer alternatives to t…
Ball Don’t Lie!” Rasheed Wallace and the Politics of Protest in the National Basketball Association
This analysis offers a contextualized close reading of the phrase “Ball don’t lie!” used by former National Basketball Association (NBA) player Rasheed Wallace to protest foul calls. The analysis first explains how “Ball don’t lie” counters what can be called “basketball common sense” by analyzing the official language of the NBA concerning fouls, referees, and disputes over foul calls, which it is argued functions as an authoritarian speech act …
Getting Free
I employ Marshall Berman's and Stephen Kern's cultural analyses of modernity in late 19th-and early 20th-century Europe and the United States to examine basketball's invention, rules, and technical and institutional development. This yields two overlapping images of basketball. First, I situate basketball within the broader context of 19th-century modernization, where, as an effect of and response to modernization, I view it as a specimen of 19th…
Visualizing Basketball's Past
ESPN's 22 basketball-themed documentaries are popular and influential sources for students and fans interested in basketball history. I offer close readings of two films, There's No Place Like Home and The Fab Five, to shed light on how they (and to some degree the corpus as a whole) portray basketball history, reflect on the historiographical task of portraying the past, and affectively engage viewers to adopt certain stances with respect to the…
Getting Free
I employ Marshall Berman's and Stephen Kern's cultural analyses of modernity in late 19th-and early 20th-century Europe and the United States to examine basketball's invention, rules, and technical and institutional development. This yields two overlapping images of basketball. First, I situate basketball within the broader context of 19th-century modernization, where, as an effect of and response to modernization, I view it as a specimen of 19th…
Our Myth of Creation
From basketball's invention in 1891, changes in the sport and in society have sparked contentious discussion over the nature of basketball, as well as over the techniques and tactics that ostensibly best embody and convey that nature. Investigating these discussions, I have identified clusters of recurrent stories, metaphors, and images arising around key events and personalities. In this essay, I analyze, historicize, and offer alternatives to t…
Ball Don’t Lie!” Rasheed Wallace and the Politics of Protest in the National Basketball Association
This analysis offers a contextualized close reading of the phrase “Ball don’t lie!” used by former National Basketball Association (NBA) player Rasheed Wallace to protest foul calls. The analysis first explains how “Ball don’t lie” counters what can be called “basketball common sense” by analyzing the official language of the NBA concerning fouls, referees, and disputes over foul calls, which it is argued functions as an authoritarian speech act …
Ball Don’t Lie!” Rasheed Wallace and the Politics of Protest in the National Basketball Association
This analysis offers a contextualized close reading of the phrase “Ball don’t lie!” used by former National Basketball Association (NBA) player Rasheed Wallace to protest foul calls. The analysis first explains how “Ball don’t lie” counters what can be called “basketball common sense” by analyzing the official language of the NBA concerning fouls, referees, and disputes over foul calls, which it is argued functions as an authoritarian speech act …
Getting Free
I employ Marshall Berman's and Stephen Kern's cultural analyses of modernity in late 19th-and early 20th-century Europe and the United States to examine basketball's invention, rules, and technical and institutional development. This yields two overlapping images of basketball. First, I situate basketball within the broader context of 19th-century modernization, where, as an effect of and response to modernization, I view it as a specimen of 19th…
Our Myth of Creation
From basketball's invention in 1891, changes in the sport and in society have sparked contentious discussion over the nature of basketball, as well as over the techniques and tactics that ostensibly best embody and convey that nature. Investigating these discussions, I have identified clusters of recurrent stories, metaphors, and images arising around key events and personalities. In this essay, I analyze, historicize, and offer alternatives to t…
The Culture of Moving Dots
Advanced analytics in professional basketball depends heavily on digital technologies for acquiring and processing data and for representing and disseminating performance evaluation. These digital technologies have transformed the tactics, techniques, and styles of play in the sport in little over five years. They have also transformed the tools, methods, and contents of historical thinking—whether scholarly or popular—about the sport’s developme…
Visualizing Basketball's Past
ESPN's 22 basketball-themed documentaries are popular and influential sources for students and fans interested in basketball history. I offer close readings of two films, There's No Place Like Home and The Fab Five, to shed light on how they (and to some degree the corpus as a whole) portray basketball history, reflect on the historiographical task of portraying the past, and affectively engage viewers to adopt certain stances with respect to the…
Basketball (5 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (5 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works)