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by James Blake


  van Heerden, Lashara. “A Girl’s Dream Becomes a Woman’s Success: Ana Ivanovic on Overcoming Adversity and Empowering Others.” Quercus Foundation News, March 8, 2016. www.quercusfoundation.org/news/a-girls-dream-becomes-a-womans-success-ana-ivanovic-on-overcoming-adversity-inspiring-others.

  Chapter 3: You Run Like a Girl

  Everhart, Robert B., and Cynthia Lee A. Pemberton. The Institutionalization of a Gender Biased Sport Value System. Winter 2001. www.advancingwomen.com/awl/winter2001/everhart_pemberton.html.

  Public Perception of Female Athletes

  Rodrick, Stephen. “Serena Williams: The Great One.” Rolling Stone, June 18, 2013. www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/serena-williams-the-great-one-20130618.

  Boren, Cindy. “Serena Williams: ‘If I Were a Man,’ I Would Have Been Considered the Greatest a Long Time Ago.” Washington Post, December 26, 2016. www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/12/26/serena-williams-if-i-were-a-man-i-would-have-been-considered-the-greatest-a-long-time-ago.

  “Serena Williams Sits Down with Common to Talk about Race and Identity.” The Undefeated, December 19, 2016. http://theundefeated.com/features/serena-williams-sits-down-with-common-to-talk-about-race-and-identity.

  Williams, Serena. “‘We Must Continue to Dream Big’: An Open Letter from Serena Williams.” Guardian, November 29, 2016. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/29/dream-big-open-letter-serena-williams-porter-magazine-incredible-women-of-2016-issue-women-athletes.

  Sreedhar, Anjana. “The Inspiring Story of How Venus Williams Helped Win Equal Pay for Women Players at Wimbledon.” Women in the World, July 10, 2015. http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2015/07/10/the-inspiring-story-of-how-venus-williams-helped-win-equal-pay-for-women-players-at-wimbledon.

  Chapter 4: Shut Up and Play

  Ayanbadejo, Brendon. “Same Sex Marriages: What’s the Big Deal?” Huffington Post, May 25, 2009. www.huffingtonpost.com/brendon-ayanbadejo/same-sex-marriages-whats_b_190591.html.

  Kluwe, Chris. “An Open Letter to Emmett Burns.” Huffington Post, September 7, 2012. www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kluwe/an-open-letter-to-emmett-burns_b_1866216.html.

  Linskey, Annie. “Burns Backs Off Bid to Silence Ravens Player.” Baltimore Sun, September 9, 2012. www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-burns-backlash-20120909-story.html.

  Collins, Jason. “Why NBA Center Jason Collins Is Coming Out Now.” Sports Illustrated, May 6, 2013. www.si.com/more-sports/2013/04/29/jason-collins-gay-nba-player.

  Williams, Charean. “Michael Sam: ‘I’m Not the Only Gay Person in the NFL.’” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 26, 2015. www.star-telegram.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/article16442273.html.

  It Gets Better Project, ItGetsBetter.org.

  Chapter 5: More Than Just a Game

  Bosman, Julie, and Mitch Smith. “Chicago Police Routinely Trampled on Civil Rights, Justice Dept. Says.” New York Times, January 13, 2017. www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/us/chicago-police-justice-department-report.html.

  Lichtblau, Eric, and Jess Bidgood. “Baltimore Agrees to Broad Change for Troubled Police Dept.” New York Times, January 12, 2017. www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/baltimore-police-consent-decree.html.

  Oppel, Richard A. Jr., Sheryl Gay Stolberg, and Matt Apuzzo. “Justice Department to Release Blistering Report of Racial Bias by Baltimore Police.” New York Times, August 9, 2016. www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/us/justice-department-to-release-blistering-report-of-racial-bias-by-baltimore-police.html.

  Guardian police killings database. “People Killed by the Police in the US.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database.

  Washington Post police killings database. “Fatal Force.” www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2017.

  McGrath, Timothy. “American Police Kill Civilians at a Shocking Rate Compared to Other Developed Countries.” Los Angeles Daily News, May 4, 2015. www.dailynews.com/government-and-politics/20150504/american-police-kill-civilians-at-a-shocking-rate-compared-to-other-developed-countries.

  Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: The New Press, 2012.

  Chapter 6: A Personal Choice

  “I’m Not a Role Model.” Newsweek, June 27, 1993. www.newsweek.com/im-not-role-model-193808.

  Notes

  Introduction

  1. Benjamin Mueller and Nate Schweber, “Officer Who Arrested James Blake Has History of Force Complaints,” September 11, 2015, www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/nyregion/video-captures-new-york-officer-manhandling-tennis-star-during-arrest.html.

  2. Nate Scott, “Broncos Linebacker Brandon Marshall Takes Knee During National Anthem,” September 8, 2016, http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/09/broncos-brandon-marshall-takes-knee-national-anthem-colin-kaepernick.

  3. Marc Tracy, “Inside College Basketball’s Most Political Locker Room,” November 16, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/17/sports/ncaabasketball/wisconsin-badgers-nigel-hayes.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0.

  4. Julie Bosman and Mitch Smith, “Chicago Police Routinely Trampled on Civil Rights, Justice Dept. Says,” January 13, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/us/chicago-police-justice-department-report.html.

  Chapter 1: Early Trailblazers

  1. Bill Christine, “Jockey Julie Krone More Than Holds Own on Track,” February 03, 1988, http://articles.latimes.com/1988-02-03/sports/sp-27085_1_julie-krone.

  2. “Mexico 1968,” Olympic.org, https://www.olympic.org/mexico-1968.

  3. Dave Zirin, “Australian Government Will Issue Overdue Apology to 1968 Olympic Hero Peter Norman,” The Nation, https://www.thenation.com/article/australian-government-will-issue-overdue-apology-1968-olympic-hero-peter-norman.

  4. Australian Olympic Committee, “Peter Norman not shunned by AOC,” November 6, 2016, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/news/peter-norman-not-shunned-by-aoc.

  Chapter 2: Changing the Game

  1. Mbiyimoh Ghogomu, “The Quickest Possible Explanation of the Current Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” July 10, 2014, http://thehigherlearning.com/2014/07/10/quickest-possible-explanation-of-the-current-israeli-palestinian-conflict.

  2. “This Day in History: May 14, 1948: State of Israel Proclaimed,” History.com, http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/state-of-israel-proclaimed.

  3. Peter Foster, “Muslim Who Plays with Jew Faces Tennis Ban,” The Telegraph, July 2002, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1398984/Muslim-who-plays-with-Jew-faces-tennis-ban.html. See also Mbiyimoh Ghogomu, “The Quickest Possible Explanation of the Current Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” The Higher Learning, July 2014, http://thehigherlearning.com/2014/07/10/quickest-possible-explanation-of-the-current-israeli-palestinian-conflict.

  4. Foster, “Muslim Who Plays with Jew Faces Tennis Ban.”

  5. “Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: Facing Down Rebellion,” BBC News, October 21, 2015, www.bbc.com/news/10338256.

  6. Ibid.

  7. “Who We Are,” website of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), www.fifa.com/about-fifa/who-we-are/index.html.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Juliet Macur, “Long Before Kaepernick, There Was Navratilova,” New York Times, October 16, 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/sports/martina-navratilova-colin-kaepernick-protest.html.

  10. Lauren Collins, “The Third Man,” The New Yorker, September 2013, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/02/the-third-man-8.

  11. Ksenija Pavlovic, “World Tennis No.1 Novak Djokovic Talks to Spectator Life ahead of Wimbledon,” The Spectator (UK), June 22, 2013, www.spectator.co.uk/2013/06/home-game.

  Chapter 3: You Run Like a Girl

  1. A. Uhlir, “The Wolf Is Our Shepherd: Shall We Not Fear?” Phi Delta Kappan 64, no. 3 (November 1982): 172–76.

  2. E. J. Vargyas, Breaking Down Barriers: A Legal Guide to Title IX (Washington, DC: National Women’s Law Center, 1994).

  3. M. J. Festle, Playing Nice: Politics and Apolo
gies in Women’s Sports (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996).

  4. M. McKeown, “Women in Intercollegiate Athletics,” in The Need For a National Study of Intercollegiate Athletics: A Report to the American Council on Education, G. H. Hanford, ed., vol. 2, pp. 369–87 (ERIC Document Reproduction Service no. ED 132 968).

  5. Festle, Playing Nice; Uhlir, “The Wolf Is Our Shepherd.”

  6. K. L. Hill, “Women in Sport: Backlash or Megatrend?” Journal of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance 64, no. 9 (November/December 1993): 49–52.

  7. Vargyas, Breaking Down Barriers, 6.

  8. Robert B. Everhart and Cynthia Lee A. Pemberton, The Institutionalization of a Gender Biased Sport Value System, Winter 2001, www.advancingwomen.com/awl/winter2001/everhart_pemberton.html.

  Chapter 4: Shut Up and Play

  1. Chris Kluwe, “I Was an NFL Player Until I Was Fired by Two Cowards and a Bigot,” Deadspin, January 1, 2014, https://deadspin.com/i-was-an-nfl-player-until-i-was-fired-by-two-cowards-an-1493208214.

  2. Ibid.

  3. Tom Pelissero, “Former Vikings Punter Chris Kluwe Plans to Sue Team,” USA Today, July 15, 2014, www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/vikings/2014/07/15/chris-kluwe-lawsuit-discrimination-mike-priefer/12674611.

  4. Ibid.

  5. Ben Goessling, “Chris Kluwe, Vikings Avoid Lawsuit,” ESPN.com, August 19, 2014, www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/11375100/chris-kluwe-minnesota-vikings-reach-settlement-avert-lawsuit.

  6. Josh Levin, “Colin Kaepernick’s Protest Is Working,” Slate, September 12, 2016, www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2016/09/colin_kaepernick_s_protest_is_working.html.

  7. Nate Boyer, “An Open Letter to Colin Kaepernick from a Green Beret-Turned-Long Snapper,” Army Times, August 30, 2016, www.armytimes.com/articles/nate-boyer-colin-kaepernick-commentary-flag-national-anthem-protest-nfl.

  Chapter 5: More Than Just a Game

  1. Julie Bosman and Mitch Smith, “Chicago Police Routinely Trampled on Civil Rights, Justice Dept. Says,” January 13, 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/us/chicago-police-justice-department-report.html.

  2. Jesse Washington, “Still No Anthem, Still No Regrets for Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf,” The Undefeated, September 1, 2016, https://theundefeated.com/features/abdul-rauf-doesnt-regret-sitting-out-national-anthem.

  3. Ibid.

  Epilogue

  1. Tony Connelly, The Drum, “Nike’s CEO Condemned Trump’s Immigration Order in a Letter to Staff,” January 30, 2017, www.businessinsider.com/nikes-ceo-condemned-trumps-immigration-order-in-a-letter-to-staff-2017–1.

  2. Todd Spangler, Variety, “Tech CEOs Blast Trump Muslim Immigration, Travel Ban: ‘So Un-American It Pains Us All,’” January 28, 2017, http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/netflix-apple-google-trump-muslim-immigration-ban-1201972448/.

  3. Judd Legum, Think Progress, “Starbucks’ Epic Response to Trump’s Executive Order,” January 29, 2017, https://thinkprogress.org/starbucks-epic-response-to-trumps-executive-order-a9d2cd8f9786.

  4. Ellen McGirt, “Read Nike CEO’s Heartbreaking Letter to Employees About Race and Violence,” July 15, 2016, Fortune.com, http://fortune.com/2016/07/15/nike-ceo-letter-race-police.

  5. “WME-IMG to Form Political Action Committee, Vows to Protect Company ‘Diversity’,” by Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter.com, February 2017, www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wme-i-img-form-political-action-committee-vows-protect-company-diversity-973353.

  Index

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  A

  Abdul-Rauf, Mahmoud, 17, 176–78, 179, 180, 184, 186, 206

  Agassi, Andre, 57, 132

  al-Assad, Bashar, 89–90

  Ali, Muhammad, 21, 28

  Ashe, Arthur, 12–14, 25, 195, 217–18

  Ayanbadejo, Brendon, 137–42, 144–45, 150, 185, 195, 197

  B

  Barkley, Charles, 195

  Barnett, Marilyn, 58

  Bass, Mistie, 18, 155

  Bayh, Birch, 120

  Bennett, Martellus, 155, 208

  Berra, Yogi, 149

  Blair, Tony, 130

  Blake, Betty (author’s mom), 1–2, 127, 158

  Blake, Emily (author’s wife), 6

  Blake, James (author’s grandfather), 6

  Blake, Thomas, 1–2

  Blake, Tom (author’s dad), 1–2, 70, 127

  Bland, Sandra, 171, 201

  Blount, LeGarrette, 208

  Boertman, Judi, 39

  Bone, Kelsey, 18, 155

  Bouska, Adam, 138

  Boyd, Brittany, 155

  Boyer, Nate, 157–58

  Brady, Tom, 148

  Branch, Alan, 208

  Bratton, William, 7

  Brown, Michael, 201

  Brown, Rita Mae, 98

  Burns, Emmett, C., 138–41

  Bush, George W., 99

  C

  Capriati, Jennifer, 20, 131

  Carter, Ron, 48

  Castile, Philando, 173, 180, 183, 201

  Cena, John, 208

  Cheney, Dick, 197

  Clifton, Nat “Sweetwater,” 35–36

  Clijsters, Kim, 20, 131, 185–86

  Clinton, Bill, 99

  Clinton, Hillary, 64, 68, 105–6, 136, 145, 209

  Collins, Bud, 97

  Collins, Jason, 142, 143, 149

  Cooper, Chuck, 35–36

  Copeland, Misty, 209

  Cromartie, Antonio, 139

  Crutcher, Terence, 173–74, 180, 201

  Curry, Steph, 68–69, 208–9

  D

  Davenport, Lindsay, 57, 129, 131

  DeGeneres, Ellen, 145

  Désir, Alison Mariella, 102

  Djokovic, Novak

  activism for children, 114–16

  Ana Ivanovic and, 108, 111

  early interest in tennis, 111, 112

  growing up in war-torn Serbia, 107–8

  Monica Seles and, 111, 112

  overcoming fear amid war, 112–13

  persevering to become number one tennis player, 107, 112–14

  Serbian athletes, training challenges and, 111–12

  E

  Ederle, Gertrude, 29, 38

  Edwards, Dr. Harry, 154, 166, 210

  Evans, Mike, 164, 192

  Evert, Chris, 57, 96, 97, 148

  F

  Farah, Sir Mo, 211–12

  Federer, Roger, 104, 114, 129, 131

  Festle, M. J., 119–20

  Fish, Mardy, 148

  Foster, Arian, 155, 156

  Frascatore, Officer, 5, 7, 10–11, 175–76, 198, 199–200

  Fujita, Scott, 141–42, 185, 197

  G

  Garner, Eric, 172, 201

  Gibson, Althea, 21, 29

  Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 98–99

  Gordon, Harry, 48

  Gray, Freddie, 172, 201

  Griner, Brittney, 19

  H

  Hadad, Amir, Qureshi and, 20, 72–73, 78–80, 195

  Halunen, Clayton, 146, 147

  Hamm, Mia, 117

  Hardy, Greg, 147

  Harris, Nic, 139

  Hathaway, Anne, 145

  Hayes, Nigel, 22–23, 196

  Hayes, Talisa, 102

  Henin, Justine, 131

  Hightower, Dont’a, 208

  Hill, Jordan, 22, 196

  Hingis, Martina, 57, 131

  Holzmann, Dan, 108–9, 110

  Hussein, Prince Ali bin al-, 91–92

  I

  Ivanovic, Ana

  activism for children, 110–11, 115–16

  benefactor Holzmann and, 108–9, 110

  Monica Seles and, 108, 110

  Novak Djokovic and, 108, 111

  persevering to become number one tennis player, 107, 108–11

  practicing tennis amid multiple challenges, 108–9

  J

  James, LeBron, 68, 70, 134, 135–37, 148, 1
85, 214, 215

  Jankovic, Jelena, 108, 111

  Johnson, Dwayne “The Rock,” 208–9

  Johnson, Magic, 101

  Jordan, Michael, 68, 69

  Jwaba, Rama Khalid, 90–95

  K

  Kaepernick, Colin, 153–60

  Abdul-Rauf and, 176, 178

  creating change, 187

  impact of activism, 16–17, 153, 153–55, 158–60, 187

  justice Ginsburg comments on, 98–99

  looking into motives of, 197–98

  as model of activism, 195

  motivation for activism, 32–33, 153–54

  Obama on activism of, 156

  philanthropy and outreach of, 136–37, 157, 165–66, 184

  reactions to/ramifications of activism, 98–99, 153, 154–57, 166, 169, 184

  respect for/response from military, 157–58

  rightfully expressing himself, 186

  risks taken by, 17–18

  Carlos Smith and, 42–43

  speaking with Dr. Harry Edwards, 154, 166, 210

  support from team and other athletes, 17–18, 153, 155–57, 188

 

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