City of Champions: A History of Triumph and Defeat in Detroit

Media track record: Szymanski has written for, been interviewed and been quoted in the New York Times, NPR, The Guardian, BBC News, Bloomberg News, CNN, Freakonomics Radio, ESPN, and Sports Illustrated. Weineck has published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Modern Language Notes, Germanic Review, and American Poetry Review

Platform: Szymanski has nearly 10,000 followers on Twitter. He writes regularly about sports, economics and politics and is regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on the economics of sport. Weineck is an MLA-Award winning professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor who gained national attention last year when NPR gave her a joint interview with Szymanski concerning a book they co-wrote on the meaning of the word “Soccer.”

Credentials: The authors are residents of Michigan and can speak to many of the issues surrounding race, class and economics in Detroit. Szymanski can also talk about: Sports management and economics; sport history, culture and society; European sport and the internationalization of sport; international sports federations and the governance of sport.

Speaking: Szymanski is a constant fixture at academic and sports business courses around the world.

Blurbs/endorsements: Billy Beane, David Maraniss, Simon Kuper, Heather Ann Thompson, Dave Zirin.

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