Steven J. Overman has spent most of his professional life writing about various aspects of sport. He has published some three-dozen articles and reviews in academic journals, including a recent article on male athletes and their fathers for the British journal Auto/biography. His book-length publications include a college textbook, a mini-text for high school history students, and a monograph on The Influence of the Protestant Ethic on Sport and Recreation (1997). Overman wrote several short biographies for David Wiggins' African Americans in Sports (2004), and he also regularly contributes columns and op-ed pieces for newspapers.