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Underbelly Hoops

Glowing Review of Cunningham’s American Hoops runs in the Journal of Sport History

Glowing Review of Cunningham’s American Hoops runs in the Journal of Sport History
CUNNINGHAM, CARSON. American Hoops: U.S. Men’s Olympic Basketball from Berlin to Beijing.Lincoln:University of Nebraska Press, 2010. Pp. 528. During the 2008 Beijing Olympic games, 4.7 billion people, about 70 percent of the world’s population, tuned on their television sets to witness the spectacle. One of the highlights of the event was the U.S. Men’s Basketball “Redeem… read more →

R. “Jackie” Robinson 1948 US Hoops Gold Medalist Returns to London 2012

Cunningham's RealClearHistory article on R. "Jackie" Robinson, 1948 gold medalist, London 2012 attendee: Published by Real Clear History It was 1948, during high tea in London’s Buckingham Palace, when U.S. Olympic basketball player Jackie Robinson met Great Britain’s royal couple, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and their daughter - the future Queen Elizabeth II. Robinson,… read more →

HOOPSWORLD Gives Underbelly Hoops High Marks In Book Review

The “Crazy Basketball Association” – book review by HOOPSWORLD’s Jason Fleming Remember Carson Cunningham? You can be forgiven if you do not, especially if you aren’t a fan of the Purdue Boilermakers or the Oregon State Beavers. Cunningham has now written a book about his experience in his final year in the Continental Basketball Association called… read more →

Biography – Carson Cunningham

I'm married to Christy "Rose," and together we have four children, Caroline, Case, Catie Joy, and Indiana. We live in wondrous Helena, Montana, where I'm the head men's basketball coach at Carroll College. In addition to coaching, I've worked on books about basketball and baseball. My latest book is Underbelly Hoops. It's a memoir about my… read more →

American Hoops – U.S. Men’s Olympic Basketball from Berlin to Beijing

You can purchase American Hoops at Amazon. Those who avidly followed the on-court acrobatics and off-court celebrity of the “Dream Team” in Barcelona in 1992 would hardly recognize what passed as basketball fifty-six years earlier, when the United States first played the game in the 1936 Olympics. In those early days of men’s Olympic basketball, many… read more →

Redeem Team Still Golden

Written by: Carson Cunningham - June 1, 2009The evidence is convincing. Consider that the top five vote-getters for this year’s regular season NBA MVP award were LeBron James, who won it, followed by Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, Dwight Howard, and Chris Paul – all members of the 2008 U.S. Olympic team. In addition, Interbasket.net just put… read more →

Olympic Reform Session – May 2009

The Recent and Current State of the Olympics’ and Olympic-related firms’ international labor practices-Carson Cunningham, DePaul University Session: Corporate and Institutional Social Responsibility Wednesday, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m., room 304 Carson - Session speaker at Toronto Research Convention. August of that year an article by Jeff Ballinger concerning Nike’s labors practices in Indonesia ran in Harper’s. Not… read more →

The Professor

Here's a couple comments from his students, taken from the website: Ratemyprofessors.com: CARSON CUNNINGHAM.. IS SIMPLY RIVETING!. This is my second time around with Carson what a great guy my favorite professor for sure. I will take him for any class that I can Straight forward midterm and final and one reading review. The man knows… read more →