The Wide World of Professional Volleyball Is Coming To America
Athletes Unlimited is about to start a new professional volleyball league, and the games will be easy to find. 2-minute read
column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns
Like so many other sports, volleyball has a far different reputation internationally than it does in the U.S. Perhaps the biggest difference is that it’s widely played by both men and women; plus, its ever-popular beach iterations and the more-clad indoor editions both garner enough attention to justify professional competition.