Table of Contents:
  • A city on wheels: the bicycle era in New Orleans / Dale A. Somers
  • "He's a good rider because of where he comes from": horseracing, slavery, and haunting / Katherine C. Mooney
  • Fighting to the finish: the ill-fated Andy Bowen and the longest boxing match in history / Randy Roberts
  • In the land of dreamy dreams: tennis and the nexus of class and race in New Orleans, 1876-1976 / Thomas Aiello
  • The New Orleans Athletic Club: pantheon of sport and society on Rampart Street / Richard V. McGehee
  • The development of Tulane Stadium: from rise to raze / Chad S. Seifried, Kasey Britt, Samantha Gonzales, and Alexa Webb
  • New Orleans becomes a big league city: the NFL-AFL merger and the creation of the New Orleans Saints / Michael S. Martin
  • Professional sports, Hurricane Katrina, and the economic redevelopment of New Orleans: revisited / Robert A. Baade, Victor A. Matheson, and Callan N. Hendershott
  • The Sugar Bowl: manhood, race, and southern womanhood in New Orleans, 1935-1965 / Stephen H. Norwood
  • "No room for such a club in our organization": the Southern Association of the Amateur Athletic Union's long fight for white supremacy in New Orleans and the South / Mark Dyreson
  • Called off, on account of darkness: the AAU, the AFL, and civic development in Jim Crow New Orleans / Gregory L. Richard and Thomas Aiello
  • 'In spite of ourselves' they were the pride of New Orleans: the role of race, gender, and the media in the demise of the Crescent City's women's professional basketball franchise, 1979-1981 / Stacy Lynn Tanner
  • When the Saints went marching in: social identity in the world champion New Orleans Saints football team and its impact on their host city / Elizabeth Booksh Burns.