Zang (sport studies, Towson University) reads the history of the 1960s through the lens of organized and professional sports and vice versa. He describes sports as a representative of the status quo,
The Vietnam era's tensions?between tradition and new possibilities, black and white, young and old, male and female?were played out on the field of professional and organized sports. SportsWars shows
David W. Zang played junior high school basketball in a drained swimming pool. He wore a rubber suit to bed to make weight for a wrestling meet. He kept a log as an obsessive runner (not a jogger). In
