Playing with the big boys: Basketball, American imperialism, and subaltern discourse in the Philippines

The global diffusion of sport is both a complex topic and a thematic presence in sport history and sociology circles. Studies of colonialism, human geography, and cultural appropriation are just a few of the channels to the international dissemination of sport. Much like soccer (or football), basketball became a global mega-sport through these means, spreading around the world from the Western metropolis to the Pacific island-nation