901Z Summer 2025 Sports Stories

901Z  Sports Stories
Two sessions
Instructors:  Fred Day, Stephen Ruth
Mondays, 11:50—1:15, July 21—July 28
This course is not just for people who like sports. It will include stories, video, and sound clips that can be interesting to anyone who enjoys great accounts about excitement, thrills, frustration, and failure, and of course triumphant, unexpected success. Most of the coverage will be the better-known sports: football, basketball, baseball, soccer, hockey, track and field, etc., but we’ll also include others not so famous such as field hockey, cricket, swimming, ultimate Frisbee, and many more. Even mashed potato wrestling is popular in several states. Fred Day’s sports books have entertained and enlightened a generation of fans, and Steve Ruth is a long time collector of unique sports stories. They will also be encouraging everyone to contribute. It’s guaranteed to be fun, interesting, and loaded with home runs.
Fred Day is a lawyer engaged in private practice in Falls Church, Virginia. He is the author of six books, including Clubhouse Lawyer: Law in the World of Sports; Sports and Courts: An Introduction to Principles of Law and Legal Theory Using Cases From Professional Sports; and Dream Team: Saints and Gentle Souls From the World of Sports.
Stephen Ruth, professor of Public Policy emeritus at GMU, has taught many OLLI courses, but is secretly a fanatical sports fan. He has informally collected a wide array of sports material, going back to the time when he played catcher on his high school baseball team.