Neoliberal urban entrepreneurial agendas, Dunedin Stadium and the Rugby World Cup: Or ‘If you don’t have a stadium, you don’t have a future’.
This chapter presents a case study set in Beloit, a fishing village located on Ataro Island, 30 kilometres across the sea from Dli, capital of Timor-Leste. Tourism is an industry that could help promote the natural and cultural assets of…
Neoliberal freedoms, privatisation and the future of physical education.
Focussing on the ideological aspects of privatisation, this paper explores ways in which ‘freedom’ has been activated discursively to justify actions involving changes to both the structure and the content of formal education in the UK. Empirically, the paper will…
Neighborhood stigma and the sporting lives of young people in public housing
This paper spotlights the sporting lives of young people who live in ‘Redcrest’, a public housing community in the Niagara region of Canada. We report on data culled from neighborhood-centric documents (municipal data, planning council reports, media coverage) and ethnographic…
Negotiations of the ageing process: Older adults’ stories of sports participation.
The purpose of this paper is to examine the talk of older athletes, with particular focus on how the context of sport helps them negotiate the ageing process. It draws on personal stories provided by 44 World Masters Games competitors…
Negotiating the ‘F-word’ in the field: Doing feminist ethnography in action sport cultures
This paper examines the potential of social theory for enhancing researcher reflexivity and praxis in the ethnographic field. More specifically, we advocate the potential of feminist interpretations of Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of “regulated liberties” for helping critical ethnographers navigate some…
Negotiating Gender through Fun and Play: Radical Femininity and Fantasy in the Red Hat Society
The Red Hat Society (RHS) is a relatively new and international women’s network that offers “fun” and “friendship” specifically for women over fifty. Its members, the Red Hatters, are easily recognized in the streets by their red hats and otherwise…
Negotiating “new” narratives: Rio de Janeiro and the “media geography” of the 2014 FIFA World Cup
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is currently in the midst of an extraordinary period of mega-event hosting. While a large number of articles have been keen to illustrate the transformative potential and dilemmas of utilizing mega-events to advance an urban agenda,…
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NCAA academic reform: History context and challenges
The purpose of this article is to offer a sociohistorical overview of academic reform in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). To do so, the author draws heavily from football history and its association with academic reform in the broader…
NCAA Academic Performance Program (APP): Future Directions
This paper represents the first major effort to conduct a comprehensive review of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Academic Performance Program (APP) and to recommend to the NCAA Board of Directors those modifications that will lead to further improvement…
Navigating barriers: A qualitative examination of the underrepresentation of Black females as head coaches in collegiate basketball.
Although sport management researchers have produced findings with regard to diversity in the leadership positions of college athletics, this examination has focused separately on gender (Inglis, Danylchuk, & Pastore, 1996; Inglis, Danylchuk, & Pastore, 2000; Knoppers, Meyer, Ewing, & Forrest,…
Nautical small-scale sports events portfolio: A strategic leveraging approach
Research question: This study analyzes the leverage process of a nautical small-scale sports events portfolio, hosted in a tourist community of Portugal. Strategic goals were identified and the implementation process examined, according to economic and social leveraging models. Since these…
Natural disaster arrhythmia and action sports: The case of the Christchurch earthquake
Taking inspiration from French sociologist and philosopher Henri Lefebvre’s theory of ‘rhythmanalysis’, the author advocates new ways of thinking about the impact of natural disaster on the bodies and everyday mobilities of those who continue to live in disrupted spaces.…
Nationalism in the United States and Canadian primetime broadcast coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics
The CBC’s and NBC’s primetime broadcasts of the 2014 Winter Olympics were analyzed to determine differences between the media treatment of home nation and foreign athletes. The CBC results showed that Canadian athletes represented 48.5% of total athlete mentions and…
National identity and important Australians
Aspects of the national narrative of an advanced industrialised nation are examined in this research. Nationally representative survey data suggest the most important collective figures for Australian identity are the Anzacs, colonial free settlers and post-Second World War immigrants, while…
Narrating goals: a case study on the contribution of Digital Storytelling to cross-cultural leadership development
This case study and evaluation of a Digital Storytelling (DST) workshop for young women identifies the strengths, limits and challenges of transformational feminist leadership development within sport for development programmes (SDP). Based on postcolonial feminist approaches and empirical evidence, the…
Multiple Voices: Improving Participation of Muslim girls in Physical Education and School Sports
This study reports on data from a larger-scale research project in one city in the West Midlands, England. The study was commissioned by the local education authority because of the rising incidence of parental withdrawal of Muslim girls from physical…
Multiple past concussions in high school football players: Are there differences in cognitive functioning and symptom reporting?
Background: There is increasing concern about the possible long-term effects of multiple concussions, particularly on the developing adolescent brain. Whether the effect of multiple concussions is detectable in high school football players has not been well studied, although the public…
Multimodal, multiplex, multispatial: A network model of the self.
Contemporary culture finds human experience spread across various digital and physical spaces. Although many scholars embrace derivative perspectives of a distributed self—dramaturgical, multiphrenic, networked—these notions are seldom engaged as empirically testable theories. This article proposes a theoretical model to foster…
Moving bodies beyond the social/biological divide: toward theoretical and transdisciplinary adventures
In this paper I call for ‘new forms of thinking and new ways of theorizing’ the complex relations between the biological and social in sport and physical culture. I illustrate the inseparability of our biological and social bodies in sport…
Motivations Associated With Nondisclosure of Self-Reported Concussions in Former Collegiate Athletes
Background: Previous studies examining non disclosure among athletes in various settings have found substantial proportions of athletes with undisclosed concussions. Substantial gaps exist in our understanding of the factors influencing athletes’ disclosure of sports-related concussions. Purpose: To examine the prevalence…
More than murder: Ethics and hunting in New Zealand
In this article I examine the practice of hunting in New Zealand with particular reference to the ways in which hunters make sense of hunting, the embodied experience of hunting, and the moral status of animals. Drawing on ethnographic and…
More than just play: Unmasking black child labor in the athletic industrial complex
African Americans’ hypervisibility in sports remains a frequent point of critique. There has been a tendency to blame Black youths for their supposed “sports fixation.” Complicating this narrative of cultural pathology, I examine the foundational importance of Black Boys’ athletic…
More than just games: the global politics of the Olympic Movement
This paper is rooted in the premise that the Olympic Movement represents an important – yet often overlooked – global political site, and it begins by situating the Olympic Movement within the global policy by focusing on its role as…
More than a sport: Tennis education and health
Youth interest and participation in tennis is growing in the United States, and tennis is among the top nine most popular school sports that girls and boys participate in at the high school level (NFHS, 2012). Tennis also engages both…
More money – better anti-doping?
Ever since the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was established, underfunding of the global fight against doping has been a perennial issue. So when WADA’s “independent” committee’s report about the lack of effectiveness of anti-doping testing was published, it was no…
MoneyRoundball? The drafting of international players by National Basketball Association teams
National Basketball Association (NBA) teams have drafted international players regularly since 1996. Did NBA teams value international prospects accurately relative to U.S. players? Regressions of NBA performance reveal that international players drafted through 2001 tended to outperform expectations adjusted for…
Monday Night Football and the Racial Roots of the Network TV Event
Launched in 1970, American Broadcasting Company’s (ABC) Monday Night Football made live prime time sports television viable when most sports broadcasts were relegated to weekends. It did so in part by packaging games for a crossover viewership. To this end,…
Mission impossible? Reflecting upon the relationship between physical education, youth sport and lifelong participation.
It is widely believed that school physical education (PE) is or, at the very least, can (even should) be a crucial vehicle for enhancing young people’s engagement with physically active recreation (typically but not exclusively in the form of sport)…
Minding the terrazzo gap between athletes and nonathletes: Representativeness, integration, and academic performance at the U.S. Air Force Academy
The tension between focusing on collegiate athletic or academic performance has persisted for decades. A recent study finds that recruited athletes in college athletic programs underperform academically, earning lower grades than predicted. It postulates that increased representativeness and integration efforts…
Mind, body and sport: Understanding and supporting student-athlete mental wellness.
When I began my tenure as NCAA Chief Medical Officer in January 2013, my first task was to connect with NCAA stakeholders and constituents to understand their concerns. I have since met with hundreds of student-athletes and dozens of student-athlete…
Migration and Career Transitions in Professional Sports: Transnational Athletic Careers in a Psychological and Sociological Perspective
With rising globalization and professionalization within sports, athletes are increasingly migrating across national borders to take up work, and their athletic and nonathletic development is thereby shaped and lived in different countries. Through the analysis of interviews with female professional…
Methods that move: A physical performative pedagogy of subjectivity.
Driven by a desire to interrogate and articulate the role and place of the body in the study of sport, this paper encourages those who are incited by a richer understanding of the physical to expand and elaborate upon the…
Messengers of hope: A boy with autism his church and the Special Olympics
Messengers of Hope is the story of Michael Leon, an adolescent on the autistic spectrum, his church, and the Special Olympics. It is a story of transformation. Michael’s parents and family, Michael, and Montrose Church are all transformed through their…
Mentorship of Black student-athletes at a predominately White American university: critical race theory perspective on student-athlete development.
Mentoring programs are evolving as common practice in athletic departments across national collegiate athletic association member institutions in the USA as means to address sociocultural issues faced by their student-athletes and to enhance their holistic development. There is a dearth…
Mentor functions in NCAA women’s soccer coaching dyads.
Team performance in sport is not limited to the players, but extends to the coaching staff and their relationships. This study aims to identify mentoring functions reported by NCAA Division I assistant women’s soccer coaches within a head coach-assistant coach…
Mental Health Referral for Student-Athletes: Web-Based Education and Training
Physically and mentally healthy student-athletes are in a good position to thrive academically, socially, and athletically. Unfortunately, many student-athletes fail to get the mental health help they need due to factors such as lack of knowledge and mental health stigma.…
Men’s netball or gender-neutral netball?
In this article I examine whether justice in New Zealand is better served through the provision of gender-inclusive or gender-segregated men’s netball competitions (where netball began as a late 19th century women’s version of basketball). While the New Zealand Men’s…
Men Who Strike and Men Who Submit: Hegemonic and Marginalized Masculinities in Mixed Martial Arts
While the recent conceptualization of hegemonic masculinity allows for the emergence of multiple masculinities, a significant ambiguity remains in theorizing the relationships between hegemonic and ‘‘alternative’’ forms of masculinity. In the relatively newly institutionalized sport of mixed martial arts (MMA),…
Men in a “women only” sport? Contesting gender relations and sex integration in roller derby
Roller derby is a growing, popular sport, where teams compete on roller skates, and where rules allow ‘blocking’ and full body contact. Roller derby is primarily played by women, with men restricted to support roles during its revival stage in…
Men at sport: Gay men’s experiences in the sport workplace.
Research on sexual identity and sport has revealed a shifting narrative about the experiences of gay men. While some suggest the atmosphere is hostile, others posit that homophobia and sexual prejudice are playing less of a role in gay men’s…
Megaeventos esportivos e Educação Física: alerta de tsunami
Este texto analisa as implicações dos megaeventosesportivos em diferentes âmbitos da realidade nacional. Nesteínterim, a partir da relacional Estado, organização esportiva emercado, problematiza as relações de hegemonia e estratégiasde acumulação inerentes à agenda Rio 2016. Além disso,apresenta uma discussão sobre…
Mega sporting events and public funding of sport in Brazil (2004-2011)
Brazilian law states that it is the duty of the State to promote sport as a right of each citizen, noting the allocation of public funds for the priority promotion of educational sports and – in specific cases – of…
Mega sport events: A probabilistic social cost–benefit analysis of bidding for the games.
The debates on whether to bid for organizing a mega sports event like the World Cup Soccer or the Olympic Games ignore either the bidding costs or the probability not to win the bid or both. In this short article,…
Mega events in sports and crime: Evidence from the 1990 Football World Cup.
Despite an increasing desire to host major sport events there is almost no research that tries to identify and measure the possible negative spillovers they generate. In particular, there is limited understanding about crime responses. This article investigates the causal…
Meet me at the crossroads: African American athletic and racial identity.
How individuals define themselves has considerable implications within the realms of sport. Considering the large proportion of African Americans participating in high profile college sports, matters of identity likely become quite relevant. This article addresses issues related to athletic and…
Mediating mega events and manufacturing multiculturalism: The cultural politics of the world game in Australia.
Contemporary global politics is characterized by intense debate about the status of multiculturalism. Framed within discourses of crime, counter-terrorism and moral decline, multiculturalism has been declared redundant just as the Australian government has rehabilitated the term in local citizenship legislation…
Media representations of multiracial athletes.
There is a substantial body of research examining racialized narratives about Black and White athletes. However, there is an absence of literature that has specifically explored multiracial identities in the sport context. The purpose of the current study was to…
Media events spectacles and risky globalization: a critical review and possible avenues for future research
We review the research conducted to date on media events and media spectacles. We posit that the main phenomena challenging the current conceptualizations of media event and media spectacleare (1) the understanding of risk, (2) the context of disasters and…
Media consumption and the contexts of physical culture: Methodological reflections on third generation study of media audiences
In this paper we argue that sport media research would be enhanced by: (a) engagement with the audience research tradition, including “third generation” audience studies that emphasize relationships between viewer interpretations of media and everyday social practices; and (b) the…
Measuring in action research: Four ways of integrating quantitative methods in participatory dynamics
Although action research uses both qualitative and quantitative methods, few contributions have addressed the specific role of the latter in this kind of research. This paper focuses on how quantitative methods can be integrated with participatory dynamics in action research…
Meanings of play among children.
The purpose of this study was to examine meanings of play among children. Thirty-eight students aged 7–9 years from a suburban public school in Western Canada participated in focus groups. Data analysis revealed participants saw almost anything as an opportunity…
May the Circle Be Unbroken: The Research Recommendations of Aboriginal Community Members Engaged in Participatory Action Research With University Academics
This study was conducted by university and Aboriginal co researchers in Canada, utilizing a participatory action research (PAR) approach akin to a decolonizing methodology. The purpose was to empower nine Aboriginal co researchers to share their recommendations for meaningful research…
May increasing doping sanctions discourage entry to the competition?
This article shows that under certain circumstances, an increase in doping sanctions can decrease the number of participants in the competition. The model, which is based on a work of Haugen, is formulated as a two-stage game in which agents…
Maximizing the benefits of youth sport.
Research Findings on Social Benefits of Youth Sport * Playing informal, player controlled sports provides young people with opportunities to organize group activities, resolve interpersonal conflicts, solve problems, and sustain the consensus and cooperative relationships required to play competitive games…
Masters Sport as a Strategy for Managing the Ageing Process
In contemporary western society, regular physical activity is promoted and understood as a means of maintaining one’s health and independence, particularly for older people. The social and economic concerns of an aging population have prompted governments and businesses alike to…
Managing sport for social change: The state of play
•Sport can build social capacity and develop healthy communities.•Critically engages with sport management theory with sport for social change.•Discusses associated practical and policy implications for sport for social change.•Future research: local engagement, innovative methods and broader scope. Sport-for-development (SFD) provides…
Managing ethnocultural and ‘racial’ diversity in sport: Obstacles and opportunities
Diversity involves coming to terms with alterity (otherness) and negotiating inclusion (togetherness). That goal is more likely, philosopher Emmanuel Levinas argues, when people usually separated – socially culturally, politically, economically geographically – are brought together in consensual face-to-face contact and…
Managing Emotional Manhood: Fighting and Fostering Fear in Mixed Martial Arts
Based on two years of fieldwork and over 100 interviews, we analyze mixed martial arts fighters’ fears, how they managed them, and how they adopted intimidating personas to evoke fear in opponents. We conceptualize this process as “managing emotional manhood,”…
Managing Black Guys: Representation, Corporate Culture, and the NBA
This article explores the intersection of representation, management, and race in the National Basketball Association (NBA) through a larger question on the relationship between corporate strategies for managing racialized subjects and popular representations of race. The NBA “brand”is situated in…
Male Team Sport Hazing Initiations in a Culture of Decreasing Homohysteria
In this longitudinal ethnographic research, we report on 7 years of hazing rituals on two separate men’s sports teams at one university in the United Kingdom. Using 38 in-depth interviews alongside naturalistic observations of the initiation rituals, we demonstrate that…
Making the global turn: The USLPGA, commissioner rhetoric of difference, and “new imperialism.”
Focusing on the cultural and structural contours of the global sport of golf, this analysis features the rhetorical power of U.S. Ladies Professional Golf Association (USLPGA) commissioners in narrativizing this “American” global tour. Selected mediated rhetoric of each of these…
Major League Baseball Attendance and the Role of Fantasy Baseball
Many explanations exist for the resurgence of the Major League Baseball (MLB) fan base following the 1994-1995 strike. The most prevalent explanations include the 1998 McGuire-Sosa home run race and Cal Ripken Jr.’s consecutive games record. While such explanations certainly…
Major college basketball in the United States: Morality amateurism and hypocrisies
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and member institutions’ presentation of major college basketball in the United States as an endeavor of amateurism is contradictory to the realities of college basketball. Discussed are the following amateurism related hypocrisies: a) requiring…
Maintaining Dominican identity in the Dominican Republic: Forging a baseball landscape in Villa Ascension
Much research concerning the Dominican Republic and baseball focuses on globalization. In acknowledging the importance of such research, this study contributes a particular understanding of sport in a rural heterogeneous community, by addressing landscape and place identity. Villa Ascension and…
Love thy Rival: what Sports’ Greatest Rivalries Teach Us about Loving Our Enemies
In his first book, the best-selling God & Football: Faith and Fanaticism in the SEC, humorist Chad Gibbs explored his own struggles to balance faith in God with passion for pigskin. Now Gibbs is back asking how Christian fans can…
Looks Good on Your CV: The Sociology of Voluntourism Recruitment in Higher Education
The recruitment for what has become known as ‘voluntourism’ takes place on campuses at many universities in Australia. Under the banner of ‘making a difference’ students are solicited to travel to developing countries to aid poor communities, to enjoy the…
Look after yourself, or look after one another? An analysis of life skills in sport for development and peace HIV prevention curriculum.
HIV/AIDS education and prevention are often described as one way that SDP can contribute to international development, yet there has been little critical analysis of how discourses legitimize particular conceptions of HIV/AIDS and constructions of life skills. Therefore, the purpose…
London 2012: A legacy for disabled people—setting new standards, changing perceptions.
DCMS and the Office for Disability Issues have worked with a range of organisations to publish a report outlining the opportunities available…
London 2012 and sports participation: The myths of legacy.
Today’s young people play far less sport than before. Or do they? The evidence, says Ken Green, shows quite the reverse. We have been promised “a deep and lasting legacy” from the Olympics. The evidence shows the Olympic sports model…
London 2012 and beyond: concluding reflections on peacemaking sport and the Olympic movement
The 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games have reinvigorated the debate on Olympic legacies for peace and development. Addressing this debate and building on the articles in this collection, this epilogue argues that the theoretical-conceptual understanding of peace and peacemaking…
Lockouts and player productivity: Evidence from the National Hockey League.
We implement a propensity score matching technique to present the first evidence on the impact of professional sports lockouts on player productivity. In particular, we utilize a unique natural experiment from the 2012-2013 National Hockey League lockout, during which approximately…
Locating the modern sacred: Moral/social facts and constitutive practices
Durkheim’s theory of the sacred, which posits the distinction between sacred and profane as the keystone of human understanding, grounds not only his approach to religion and epistemology but also his theory of modernity. This distinction between traditional and modern…
Local meanings of a sport mega-event’s legacies: Stories From a South African urban neighbourhood
Studies on sport mega-events and their legacies often seem only loosely connected to local experiences. Stories on sport mega-event legacy appear as a setting-the-scene or function as a reference to illustrate specific types of legacy. However, stories themselves are never…
Living the dream or awakening from the nightmare: race and athletic identity
Education is often viewed as the door that leads out of poverty for many students of color. But for many African American boys and young men, the dream of becoming a professional athlete is a door that appears to be…
Living by numbers: Media representations of sports stars’ careers
This article will address the making and unmaking of elite sporting careers, by focusing on the media reporting of the rise and fall of two elite sport stars, Roger Federer and Lance Armstrong. Sport stars are not simply the raw,…
Lively Infrastructure
This paper examines the social life and sociality of urban infrastructure. Drawing on a case study of land occupations and informal settlements in the city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil, where the staples of life such as water, electricity, shelter…
Limited or lasting legacy? The effect of non-mega sport event attendance on participation
Research question: It is often claimed by event promoters that hosting major sports events will inspire increased participation at grassroots level. However, evidence of this linkage is scarce. This paper addresses the research gap by examining the legacy effect of…
Lifting the veil: Exploring colorblind racism in black student athlete experiences.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of post-racial narratives and colorblind racism in a case of Black intercollegiate student athlete experiences. This case study engaged a critical race theory (CRT) perspective and colorblind ideologies to advance…
Lifestyle sport, public policy and youth engagement: Examining the emergence of parkour.
In this article we consider the development of parkour in the South of England and its use in public policy debates and initiatives around youth, physical activity and risk. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews with participants and those involved in…
Lifestyle and Adventure Sport Among Youth
An important characteristic and intensifying trend in the twenty-first century within Western sporting cultures is an increase in the range and diversity of sports practices, particularly more informal and individualistic activities. A vibrant example of this trend is the emergence…
Lifelong engagement in sport and physical activity: Participation and performance across the lifespan.
Sport and physical activity should now be understood as lifelong activity, beginning in childhood, and accessible to participants of all levels of ability. This book offers an overview of some of the core concerns underlying lifelong engagement in sport and…
Life in the Travelling Circus: A Study of Loneliness, Work Stress, and Money Issues in Touring Professional Golf
This article examines the effects of globalization on the well-being of migrant professional athletes. Interviews with 20 touring professional golfers reveal that players experience many of the personal problems—such as loneliness, isolation, low decision latitude, low social support, and effort-reward…
Life at the track: Country race clubs and social capital
The aim of this article is to report the findings of a study that explored both the contributions of country race clubs to social capital within rural and regional communities as well as their utilization of social capital. The article…
LGBT inclusive athletic departments as agents of social change.
Despite advances, prejudice against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals continues to plague many areas of sport, including intercollegiate athletics. There are, however, some athletic departments that are inclusive of LGBT athletes, coaches, and administrators, and that have inclusive…
Leveraging the London 2012 Paralympic Games: What Legacy for People with Disabilities?
The International Paralympic Committee, U.K. Government, and the Organizing Committee for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games all contended that the London 2012 Paralympic Games would positively impact the lives of disabled people in the United Kingdom, particularly with…
Leveraging sport mega-events: new model or convenient justification?
A range of recent studies have shown that the social and economic impacts of mega-events are often disappointing. This has stimulated interest in the notion of leveraging; an approach which views mega-events as a resource which can be levered to…
Leveraging parasport events for community participation: Development of a theoretical framework
Research question: Sporting events have become highly sought after tools for economic, tourism, and social development in cities around the world; however, little is understood about how to effectively leverage events. This purpose of this paper is to present a…
Leveling the Playing Field? Perspectives and Observations of Coed Intramural Flag Football Modifications
Although sport is regarded as a bastion of male hegemony, coed settings offer females the opportunity to compete alongside males. Coed environments, however, often include rule modifications that intend to facilitate female participation, which promote female inferiority assumptions. This study…
Learning to get drunk: The importance of drinking in Japanese university sports clubs
This paper draws on two ethnographic research projects in Japanese university sports clubs to examine the role alcohol plays in the social and cultural education of students. Over the course of a four-year membership, the university sports club is a…
Learning to be a ‘goody-goody’: Ethics and performativity in high school elite athlete programmes.
Over the past few decades, New Zealand schools have started elite athlete programmes (EAPs) to develop talented sportspeople. The purpose of this study was to evaluate teachers/coaches and elite athletes’ perspectives of their learning experiences in two EAPs. Ball’s concept…
Learning the game: Football fandom culture and the origins of practice.
Based on the partial results of a doctoral programme, this article explores the significance of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice for explaining the experiential processes involved in becoming a football fan. Whilst recognizing value in the theoretical construct habitus, in…
Leading Their Flocks to Health? Clergy Health and the Role of Clergy in Faith-Based Health Promotion Interventions
Faith-based organizations are a frequent partner in health promotion due to their large and expansive reach across multiple demographics of the United States. These faith-based organizations are led by clergy members who have a strong influence over their institutions and…
Lay Down Sally: Media Narratives of Failure in Australian Sport
This article analysis media narratives of failure in sport using a case-study of the collapse of Australian rower Sally Robbins at the 2004 Olympic Games. Media coverage of Robbins’ breakdown was driven by conflicting narratives. In the dominant version Robbins…
Latinos in the End Zone: Conversations on the Brown Color Line in the NFL
Contrary to recent trends of major sport federations that popularize and narrate the sudden emergence of the Hispanic/Latino/Brown athlete in US sport through multicultural marketing campaigns, Latinos have long played a pivotal role in the creation, circulation and consumption of…
Lady or woman? The debate on lexical choice for describing females in sport in the Turkish language.
The study investigates linguistic sexism in communication in sports within a sociolinguistic context. The starting point of the research is a recent debate in Turkish society about the appropriate word to refer to females in sport. Specifically, the manuscript focuses…
Ladies of Besiktas: A dismantling of male hegemony at Inönü Stadium
Founded by four friends in 2006, the fan group Ladies of Besiktas are supporters of one of the largest football clubs in Turkey, with hundreds of active members and representatives in almost all Turkish cities as well as in Germany…
Labor migration among elite sport coaches: An exploratory study
Coaches are critical to elite sport achievements because they represent the link between sport policies and athletes. Yet, labor migration of elite sport coaches challenges the competitiveness of the sport system of the sending country and brain drain is a…
Knocked out: Ritual disruption and the decline of Spanish boxing
Scholars have written extensively on the emergence of mass sports in modern industrial societies, and the factors that have facilitated the development of ‘hegemonic sports cultures’. Less has been written on how the structure and content of ‘national sport spaces’…
Knee Osteoarthritis Is Associated With Previous Meniscus and Anterior Cruciate Ligament Surgery Among Elite College American Football Athletes
Background: Football puts athletes at risk for knee injuries such meniscus and anterior cruciate ligament(ACL) tears, which are associated with the development of osteoarthritis (OA). Previous knee surgery, player position, and body mass index (BMI) may be associated with knee…