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Abstract
In 2004 Nike released the commercial where scores of kids professed "I am Tiger Woods" in tribute to the emerging golf legend. Well, "I am Harry Edwards". In 2007, ten years after I had entered the game of sports activism, I finally met Harry Edwards. Yet, Edwards' work had already profoundly shaped my career. This tribute begins by contextualizing Edwards' courage within his infamous acts of sports activism and ends by exploring the bridges Harry built with the very entities he "called out." Most important, his courage, honesty, vision and collaboration should serve as a blueprint for today's scholar activists.