Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff

To be great in sports, you need a great rival for together you raise the bar.

USA vs Canada hockey rivalry just notched another chapter with an OT US win, days after the women showed them how it's done in their own Milanese thriller.

Thanks Canada, an amazing competitor who've made the game

Book cover for 'Basketball Empire' by Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, featuring the book cover, with an endorsement quote and the logo for Bloomsbury Academic.

France today is a basketball empire, producing talent that has helped globalise the NBA ⛹️🏀🏆

@lempika7.bsky.social explores how basketball's global takeover could not have happened without France and how sport can become a bridge between nations.

Find out more: https://bit.ly/4jZ0Drl

The Making of Les Bleus The Making of Les Bleus traces the Fifth Republic’s quest to create elite athletes in two global team sports, football and basketball, primarily at the yo…

📚⚽️ The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France, 1958-2010 is also included! As an older title, this one rarely goes on sale.

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I’m thankful to be fully part of the Bloomsbury family 🙏

Basketball Empire The National Basketball Association (NBA), founded over 75 years ago, is staging a 21st century takeover. Watched in 215 countries and territories worldwide, an…

📚🏀 #BasketballEmpire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA is part of this

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📸 FLASH SALE!

This week, @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social global site is offering 30% off hardback & paperback titles + 40% off all ebook titles.

That means you can stock up on some of your favorite works, including mine! 😉

*this is not for US orders
**Bloomsbury cannot deliver to the EU right now

This is a great story!

The Knicks' Diawara is the most recent addition to a tradition of French NBA players who came to their sport thx to women's basketball. That history includes Tariq Abdul-Wahad, Boris Diaw, Wemby and many more.

That's part of the #BasketballEmpire story bit.ly/BBallEmpire

🎧  Listen to my podcast chat with New Books in Sports host Dr. Keith Rathbone talking all things France, NBA and larger basketball culture newbooksnetwork.com/basketball-e...

Then sit back and enjoy the #NBA #AllStar USA vs World tipoffs!

Basketball Empire The National Basketball Association (NBA), founded over 75 years ago, is staging a 21st century takeover. Watched in 215 countries and territories worldwide, an…

🏀 a basketball breeding ground
🏀 largest non-North American pipeline of talent to the NBA
🏀 a hoops influencer
🏀 and women’s hoops played an outsized role

That’s the story of #BasketballEmpire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA   www.bloomsbury.com/us/basketbal...

📣 Fridays 👉 #SportsDiplomacy Spotlight NBA All-Star Edition

On Sunday Victor Wembanyama makes history as the first Frenchman to be an NBA AllStar Game starter. But his story is just the latest in the longer history of Franco-American ties that have helped make France 👇

Banner for the book 'Basketball Empire' by Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff. Published by Bloomsbury Academic. Available now.

How have remnants of empire shaped basketball?

In Basketball Empire, @lempika7.bsky.social argues that the sport is rooted in France’s colonial history and close, albeit complicated, relationship with the United States.

🏀👟🏆 Find out more: https://bit.ly/4jZ0Drl

Lastly, if you’d like to better understand what player-driven NFL and NFLPA sports diplomacy entails and how it empowers athletes, check out the Stimson Center’s Player-to-People Diplomacy replay www.stimson.org/event/player...

🏈0️⃣6️⃣3️⃣ Jan Woska — FranceAndUs Meet Jan Woska, who connects the USA and France using sport as a tool to highlight historic, cultural and economic ties between Louisiana and France with the aim to make the New Orleans Saints the mos...

That’s important as next season the NFL plays their first regular season match in Paris, featuring the New Orleans Saints.

Read more about the Saints-Paris connection via this insightful Voice by Jan Woska for what this type of #sportsdiplomacy can look like www.franceussports.com/voices/063-j...

American Football in France — FranceAndUs Often hidden from sight, American football has long served as a conduit between French and Americans on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Although American football is not as widely played in France as other team sports, such as basketball, football (soccer) and rugby, its been played there since 1900, as this Backgrounder by Russ Crawford outlines www.franceussports.com/backgrounder...

🏈🏉0️⃣1️⃣5️⃣ Richard Tardits — FranceAndUs Meet Richard Tardits, a rugby player from Bayonne who following a storied career with the University of Georgia became the first French player in the National Football League (NFL).

Celebrate SuperBowl Sunday with a little #FranceAndUS knowledge

🏈  The first Frenchman to play in the NFL was Richard Tardits, who played 27 games with the New England Patriots www.franceussports.com/voices/015-r...

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🔥 awesome 👏

Yes, we smashed our initial goal of $10K. Y'all are incredible. We are in shock but also dreaming big. We are (somehow) currently at $19,518 (WTF!?!).

We'd love to make it above $21K today.

That will get us a monthly episode from June to the end of 2026!!

In 1966, Bill Russell became the NBA's first-ever Black head coach, while continuing to start for the team. He'd lead them to two more championships as a player-coach.

See more Black History Month spotlights here: https://info.sports-reference.com/bhm-spotlights#bbr

Three anonymous reactions from students to Xavi's talk about leadership

word cloud generated from student video reflections on Xavi's leadership talk

🤩 Wow, goosebumps!

What an incredible way to kickstart my NYU Olympics & Global Sports Events class, where we are also contemplating connections between sports diplomats and leadership: a guest talk with F.C. Barcelona legend Xavier Vilajoana !

Lots of insights from on and off the pitch.

If you have a particular insight or story you want to tell about the increasing omnipresence of gambling (especially interested in how it’s affecting underage kids), get in touch. Email and signal in bio

The Icy Road towards the First Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix 1924 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) faced many obstacles in deciding to initiate the first Olympic Winter Games and subsequently organize in Chamonix in 1924 the ‘Winter Sports Week’, now con...

The first Winter Olympics weren’t originally called that. The 1924 Paris Olympic organizers planned an International Winter Sports Week earlier in the year in Chamonix. Afterwards the IOC called them the 1st Winter Olympics. #olympics #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️
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The 2026 Olympic Games in Milan Cortina start in 10 days! I’ll share historical facts & related history
scholarship about the Olympic Winter Games daily until the opening ceremony 🧵
#olympics #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️

⏱️ D-1️⃣ until @MeridianIntl's first-ever #SportsDiplomacy Forum

I cannot wait to join the amazing lineup of speakers scheduled for an engaging, informative Thursday afternoon January 29th. Don't miss it!

Info, schedule & livestream diplomacyforum.meridian.org/sports

As any New Englander knows: you have to have a geometric system!

An excellent example of when boycotts work within sports

Senegal win the Africa Cup of Nations. Pape Gueye's stunning extra-time strike proved the difference.

Does that tell the full story? Not even slightly.

A questionable penalty decision in Morocco's favour, Senegal's walk-off and fury, Brahim Diaz's failed panenka.

That just scratches the surface.

Glad it’s working out! Feel free to tell them I recommended you — I stayed with them in 2023 and had a great experience

Happy Friday @soccerpolitics.bsky.social via L’Equipe 🙌

Congrats great times in the archives!!

Player-to-People Diplomacy • Stimson Center This event explores how American athletes act as envoys of the United States, shaping the perceptions of foreign publics and creating opportunities for US diplomacy.

📣 Fridays 👉 #SportsDiplomacy Spotlight

This week’s Player-to-People Diplomacy event delved into a critical aspect of sports diplomacy: that of the athlete.

Great perspective from NFLPA's Don Davies, NFL's Troy Vincent Sr, Stimson Center's Evan Cooper -- and me!

www.stimson.org/event/player...