Assessing Sport History and the Cultural and Linguistic Turn.

The author reflects on the provocative papers and queries about the state of contemporary sport scholarship which was presented on the annual conference of the North American History for Sport History in 2006 by Doug Booth and Ken Cohen. He discusses the different reactions of the participants and his views regarding the academic discourse. He also notes the challenge of Booth on the role of historians. The author mentions the emphasis of Cohen on the capabilities of sports history.