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Summary
Author Biography
David Karen is professor of sociology at Bryn Mawr College.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | p. ix |
A Note to the Reader | p. xi |
Introduction: Sport as a Model of Meritocracy | p. xiii |
Raiding the Public Treasury: The Political Economy of Professional Sports | p. 1 |
Public Dollars, Private Stadiums, and Democracy | p. 5 |
May the Best Team Win: Making Baseball Competitive | p. 20 |
Rooting the Home Team: Why the Packers Won't Leave-and Why the Browns Did | p. 26 |
America's Fastest Growing Sport | p. 34 |
Building a Mini Metropolis Known as the U.S. Open | p. 44 |
The Faustian Bargain: Big-Time Sports and the Media | p. 47 |
Money, Myth and the Big Match: The Political Economy of the Sports Media | p. 51 |
Losing Control of the Ball: The Political Economy of Football and the Media in Australia | p. 95 |
The Global Sport Mass Media Oligopoly: The Three Usual Suspects and More | p. 109 |
Football, Television, and the Supreme Court: How a Decision 20 Years Ago Brought Commercialization to the World of College Sports | p. 130 |
Marketers are Joining the Varsity | p. 135 |
True Love, or a Marriage of Convenience? Sports and Education | p. 139 |
Who's Playing College Sports? Trends in Participation | p. 143 |
The Game of Life: Taking Stock | p. 158 |
Race, Cultural Capital, and the Educational Effects of Participation in Sports | p. 176 |
High School Football: Deep in the Heart of South Tejas | p. 200 |
Odd Jobs Help College Teams Stay Afloat | p. 206 |
The Power of Athletics: Sports and Politics | p. 209 |
Where are the Jocks for Justice? | p. 213 |
Sport, Masculinity, and Black Cultural Resistance | p. 219 |
Televised Sport, Masculinist Moral Capital, and Support for the Invasion of Iraq | p. 237 |
Gay Games or Gay Olympics? Implications for Lesbian Inclusion | p. 263 |
Argentina's Left-Wingers | p. 270 |
Carlos Delgado Stands up to War | p. 275 |
More Than a Game: Fandom and Community in Sports | p. 277 |
Emotionality in the Stands and in the Field: Expressing Self Through Baseball | p. 281 |
Joe Louis Uncovers Dynamite | p. 294 |
Supporters, Followers, Fans, and Flâneurs: A Taxonomy of Spectator Identities in Football | p. 297 |
Something About Baseball: Gentrification, "Race Sponsorship," and Competing Class Cultures in Neighborhood Boys' Baseball | p. 313 |
Hardball Ain't the Only Game in Brooklyn Anymore | p. 339 |
Socializing the Anatomy: Body Culture and Sport | p. 343 |
Making Sense of Muscle: The Body Experiences of Collegiate Women Athletes | p. 347 |
Managing Bodily Capital | p. 364 |
Hindu Nationalism, Cultural Spaces, and Bodily Practices In India | p. 378 |
Athletes Embrace Size, Rejecting Stereotypes | p. 389 |
Giving Up Your Body: Violence and Injuries in Sports | p. 393 |
Male Athletes, Injuries, and Violence | p. 397 |
The Structure of Sport and Participant Violence | p. 409 |
On-Field Player Violence | p. 422 |
Backtalk: Violence, Redemption and the Cost of Sports | p. 446 |
About the Editors | p. 449 |
Index | p. 451 |
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