He has written on the historical aspects of several sports, including swimming and the Paralympics, as well as contributing to philosophical debates about sport history, understanding the role of sport museums, and conceptualising changes to sport history in the digital age. His most recent books are Representing the Sporting Past in Museums and Halls of Fame (London: Routledge, 2012), Richard Pringle and Murray G. Phillips (eds), Critical Sport Histories: Paradigms, Politics and the Postmodern Turn (West Virginia: FIT, 2013), and Gary Osmond and Murray G. Phillips (eds), Sport History in the Digital Era (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015).