King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution.
Bill Russell was not the first African American to play professional basketball, but he was its first black superstar. From the moment he stepped onto the court of the Boston Garden in 1956, Russell began to transform the sport in…
Kicking “No-Touch” Discourses into Touch: Athletes’ Parents’ Constructions of Appropriate Coach–Child Athlete Physical Contact.
It has been suggested that sport is increasingly becoming a “no-touch zone” as some coaches, driven by a desire for self-protection, restrict their use of physical contact with (child) athletes in the belief that this reduces their risk of being…
Just Don’t Hit On Me and I’m Fine: Mapping High School Wrestlers’ Relationship to Inclusive Masculinity and Heterosexual Recuperation
This article examines the gender and sexual understandings of high school wrestlers, mainly through the lens of inclusive masculinity theory. It does so by exploring the level of acceptance participants exhibited toward gay wrestlers, as well as by how they…
Just be empowered: how girls are represented in a sport for development and peace HIV/AIDS prevention manual.
HIV/AIDS prevention is often described as one way that sport for development and peace (SDP) organizations can contribute to international development, particularly through the empowerment of girls and young women. However, there has been little research examining how SDP organizations…
Just a wind-up? Ethnicity religion and prejudice in Scottish football-related comedy
This article probes how media representations of football in Scotland sustain the hegemonic ideologies associated with ethnicity and religion. The paper probes the football-related comedy output of one radio programme; radio output and football comedy are both neglected cultural material…
Jacques Mornève: Narrative Glorification of Catholic Sport
The article analysis the role of a writer committed to spreading moral and religious values and who, through popular sports novels, deciphers the signs concerning the spreading of ideological messages by Catholic intellectuals or those in charge of charity work.…
It’s Not That Easy Being Green: The Environmental Dimension of the European Union’s Sports Policy
This article starts from the assumption that the European Union (EU) could play a leading part in reducing the negative environmental impacts of sport. The extent to which the EU fulfills its potential in this regard depends upon the integration…
It’s Just Superstition I Suppose … I’ve Always Done Something on Game Day: The Construction of Everyday Life on a University Basketball Team
Research in sport has tended to focus on ‘spectacular’ or ‘extraordinary’ experiences, at the expense of discussing how particular phenomena are embedded in everyday life. Drawing on ethnographic research with a university basketball team in the North of England, this…
It’s Just Girls’ Hockey: Troubling progress narratives in girls’ and women’s sport
The current historical moment abounds with social ideologies suggesting that girls’ and women’s sport has come a long way. Narratives of achievement, success and the gains that have ostensibly been made over the last three decades hold up these ideologies.…
It’s a Long Way to the Super League: The Experiences of Australasian Professional Rugby League Migrants in the United Kingdom
This article investigates the embodied experiences of a group of professional sports labour migrants whose experiences have largely been ignored by sociological literature: southern hemisphere rugby players playing professional rugby league in the United Kingdom. The migrant pathway from Australasia…
It’s not like you are less of a man just because you don’t play rugby’—boys’ problematization of gender during secondary school physical education lessons in New Zealand.
Despite clear messages from current physical education (PE) curricula about the importance of adopting socially critical perspectives, dominant discourses of gender relating to physical activity, bodies and health are being reproduced within this school subject. By drawing on interview data…
It’s Actually Very Normal That I’m Different’. How Physically Disabled Youth Discursively Construct and Position Their Body/Self
In this paper, we explore how physically disabled youth who participate in mainstream education discursively construct and position themselves in relation to dominant discourses about sport and physicality that mark their bodies as ‘abnormal’ and ‘deviant’. We employ a feminist…
It Was My Thought… He Made it a Reality: Normalization and Responsibility in Athletes’ Accounts of Performance-Enhancing Drug Use
Despite the widespread interest in athletes’ use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in track and field, the voices of the athletes who use banned substances have seldom been heard. Interviews with competitive athletes were conducted to explore their relationship to doping.…
It Just Makes you Feel Invincible’: A Foucauldian Analysis of Children’s Experiences of Organised Team Sports
The childhood years are highlighted as a crucial time when ongoing participation in physical activity can be nurtured and maintained. The nurturing of a child’s proclivity to participate in organised sport normally falls into the domain of adults. While both…
It is Passable, I Suppose – Adult Norwegian Men’s Notions of Their Own Bodies
The aim of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of how men aged 40–90 years with different educational and ethnic backgrounds talk about their own bodies, and how social dimensions, especially masculinity and age, are reflected in…
It is never too late to win – sporting activities and performances of ageing women
Sport is an area in which masculinity, youth and their achievements are celebrated and rewarded. Thus, ageing women face a double barrier when they wish to participate and perform in an endeavour which is currently of major interest in the…
ISSP Position Stand: Culturally competent research and practice in sport and exercise psychology
The multicultural landscape of contemporary sport sets a challenge to rethink sport and exercise psychology research and practice through a culturally reflexive lens. This ISSP Position Stand provides a rigorous synthesis and engagement with existing scholarship to outline a roadmap…
Israel and a sports boycott: Anti-semitic? Anti-Zionist?
The paper identifies and summarises the debates that surround the place of Israel in international sport and assesses how that place is increasingly being contested. The long-standing conflict between Israel and Palestine has begun to manifest in the world of…
Islam, Hijab and Young Shia Muslim Canadian Women’s Discursive Constructions of Physical Activity
This article focuses on the results of a study exploring young Shia Muslim Canadian women’s discursive constructions of physical activity in relation to Islam and the Hijab. The aims of the study were primarily informed by feminist poststructuralist and postcolonial…
Is There Salary Discrimination by Nationality in the NBA?: Foreign Talent or Foreign Market
The authority of the National Basketball Association (NBA) over the past decade has actively internationalized the game by recruiting potential international players and expanding overseas markets. This article examines the determinants of salaries for NBA players, aiming to identify the…
Is There Chronic Brain Damage in Retired NFL Players? Neuroradiology, Neuropsychology, and Neurology Examinations of 45 Retired Players.
Background: Neuropathology and surveys of retired National Football League (NFL) players suggest that chronic brain damage is a frequent result of a career in football. There is limited information on the neurological statuses of living retired players. This study aimed…
Is there an expertise of production? The case of new media producers
The rise of Web 2.0 has prompted debates around the legitimacy and contributions of professional and amateur producers in fields such as journalism and popular culture, but it also begs the question: what is the substance of the expertise now…
Is Sport Good for Older Adults? A Systematic Review of Psychosocial Outcomes of Older Adults’ Sport Participation
Although sport is promoted as a vehicle to enhance health and well-being throughout the life course, little is known about the psychosocial benefits and costs associated with sport participation in older adulthood. A mixed studies systematic review of English-language, peer-reviewed,…
Is Self-Sufficiency for Women’s Collegiate Athletics a Hoop Dream? Willingness to Pay for Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tickets
Universities spend almost $2 billion subsidizing their collegiate sports programs. Even the most popular women’s sport, basketball, fails to break even. An application of Becker’s theory of customer discrimination is used to calculate the relative preference for men’s basketball for…
Is Nadeshiko Japan “Feminine?” Manufacturing Sport Celebrity and National Identity on Japanese Morning Television
When the Japan women’s soccer team, more affectionately dubbed “Nadeshiko Japan,” emerged FIFA World Cup champions in 2011, its members became celebrities overnight. However, central to their celebrityhood is the media’s obsession with “femininity.” Through constructing sport celebrities, or tarento…
Is it possible to create a politically engaged, contextual psychology of disability?
Until recently disability studies has ignored questions regarding the psychological nature of oppression. Proponents of the social model have viewed such concerns as diversionary, diluting their emphasis on material and economic barriers to inclusion. This paper argues that the discipline’s…
Is it in the Game? Reconsidering Play Spaces, Game Definitions, Theming, and Sports Video Games.
From the very first days of digital gaming, sport-themed video games have been a constant and ever-popular presence. However, compared with many other genres of games, sports-themed video games have remained relatively under researched. Using the case of “sports video…
Is hockey just a game? Contesting meanings of the ice hockey life projects through a career-threatening injury
This study is situated within an existential-narrative theoretical framework to examine the impact of career-threatening injury on professional ice hockey players’ well-being and career construction. Professional ice hockey culture is construed as a privileged space characterised by hegemonic masculinity, fierce…
Iranian Women’s Sports Fandom: Gender Resistance and Identity in the Football Movie Offside
As sport enters new global territories, attending to questions of cultural difference is increasingly important to studies of women’s sports fanship. This article draws on theories of transnational feminism and feminist sports scholarship to contemplate the cinematic portrayal of the…
Involvement in sport and social connectedness.
This paper explores the relationship between involvement in sport and non-sport community organisations and social connectedness. Data were collected on types of community involvement, selected demographic variables and social connectedness. The findings support the contention that involvement in sport organisations…
Invisible Women in America’s National Pastime
American popular culture holds that girls do not play baseball, and any news to the contrary is greeted with incredulity. But girls and women have played the national pastime since the game was first invented, in spite of the fact…
Investigating corruption in corporate sport: The IOC and FIFA.
Global sport governing bodies proclaim lofty ideals and espouse generic principles that set high moral standards for themselves and others. None more so than two of the world’s largest, most influential, and most high profile sporting organizations, the International Olympic…
Investigating corruption in corporate sport: The IOC and FIFA
Global sport governing bodies proclaim lofty ideals and espouse generic principles that set high moral standards for themselves and others. None more so than two of the world’s largest, most influential, and most high profile sporting organizations, the International Olympic…
Introduction: sport matters.
On Saturday October 15th 2011 Liverpool Football Club played Manchester United Football Club at Liverpool’s home ground, Anfield. England’s two most successful football (soccer) teams played out a closely fought 1-1 draw but the result of the game would be…
Introduction: Sociology as a combat sport.
This introduction sets out from the unresolved paradox to be found in the writings of Bourdieu, namely the theoretical impossibility of public sociology and his own sustained practical engagement with publics. I appropriate and develop his concept of the ‘field’…
Introduction to the Supplement–Special Issue: The Hungarian National Youth Fitness Study.
Ensuring the health and education of children is one of the most important objectives in modern society. This is because the youth of today represent our future. The worldwide increase in the prevalence of obesity directly threatens this potential, so…
Introduction to special issue on sport and alcohol: On the contemporary agenda of research on alcohol within the sociology of sport
This introductory essay by Special Issue Editor, Catherine Palmer, introduces a double issue of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport focused on the contemporary agenda of research on alcohol within the field of sociology of sport. In introducing…
Intrinsic Motivation and Flow in Skateboarding: An Ethnographic Study
Intrinsic motivation was examined in a spontaneous and natural context by observing and interviewing skateboarders as they engaged in their sport. At the same time, the flow phenomenon and its relationship to intrinsic motivation was explored. Data were collected from…
Intersectionality, Microaggressions, and Micro-Affirmations: Toward a Cultural Praxis of Sport Coaching.
Despite its prevalence as a sensitizing concept for research in psychology, the sociology of sport literature on microaggressions is limited and it has not been used to understand sociocultural aspects of sport coaching. In this poststructural creative analytic practice, we…
Intersectionality and Global Gender Inequality
Bose discusses how global intersectional projects have focused both on particular groups and on interactions between dimensions and demonstrates how systems generate intersectional effects. Here, she provides examples of international nongovernmental organizations that try to develop policies that deal with…
Intersecting Selves: African American Female Athletes’ Experiences of Sport
Stereotypes have the power to dynamically structure African American female athletes’ oppression (Buysse & Embser-Herbert, 2004; Kane, 1996), for example, by trivializing their athletic efforts (Douglas, 2002). The purpose of this paper was to examine how African American women athletes…
Interrogating States’ Soft Power Strategies: A Case Study of Sports Mega-Events in Brazil and the UK.
Central to this article is the use of sports mega-events as part of a state’s “soft power” strategy. The article offers two things: first, a critique of the “soft power” concept and a clearer understanding of what it refers to…
International Student-Athletes in Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS): Perceptions, Motivations, and Experiences
This exploratory study investigated the landscape of international student-athletes participating in Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), the governing body for university sport in Canada, with respect to number, sport, and gender breakdown, as well as their perceptions, motivations, and experiences. Of…
International Sport Federations in the World City Network
In this article, we analyze the transnational urban geographies produced by international sport federations (ISFs) through their global, regional, and national headquarter locations. Data on the global urban presence of 35 major ISFs are examined through connectivity analysis and principal…
International medallists’ and non-medallists’ developmental sport activities – a matched-pairs analysis
The study examined developmental participation patterns of international top athletes. Pairs of 83 international medallists (including 38 Olympic/World Champions) and 83 non-medallists were matched by sport, age and gender. A questionnaire recorded their volume of organised (coach-led) practice/training in their…
Interaction Ritual Theory and Sports Fans: Emotion, Symbols, and Solidarity.
The study of sport spectatorship has an increasing focus on the importance of fandom beyond fan violence. Fundamental to understanding fan behavior are the meaningful rituals and emotions experienced by fans. In this paper, I use the theoretical work of…
Intellectual property enclosure and economic discourse in the 2012 London Olympic Games.
Special legislation associated with mega sporting events has enabled new forms of cultural enclosure, effectively commoditising aspects of cultural expression that previously remained in the public domain. In this article, the authors examine the tension between economic and political justifications…
Inspired by the Paralympics: Effects of Empathy on Audience Interest in Para-Sports and on the Destigmatization of Persons with Disabilities.
Theories of eudaimonic entertainment and destigmatization concur to suggest that empathic feelings elicited by portrayals of Paralympic athletes can increase audience interest in para-sports and can lead to prosocial attitude change toward persons with disabilities in general. Three experiments were…
Inside the Black Box: Affirmative Action and the Social Construction of Race in Brazil
The recent adoption of race-targeted public policies makes Brazil an insightful place to study the social construction of race. This article estimates the effect of racial quotas in college admissions on patterns of racial identification. The authors collected data on…
Initiate: Constructing the ‘reality’ of male team sport initiation rituals
This article re-enacts a typical experience of male sport initiation at a university in the south of England and presents a confessional account of my own shifting epistemological position and desire to create more balanced, ethical, reflexive and self-effacing research.…
Information creation on online drug forums: How drug use becomes moral on the margins of science.
Potential users of grey-market substances seek out internet drug websites to gather legal high information. However, where previous researchers have investigated drug wikis as sources of drug information, few have looked into the drug forums where an abundance of legal-high…
Infiltrating the boys’ club: Motivations for women’s fantasy sport participation.
Understanding gender differences in fantasy sport consumption involves in-depth assessment of personal attributes, consumption, sport fandom, and motivations to participate. The study addresses the area of gender and fantasy sport, examining motivation and consumption behaviors of men and women concerning…
Inequality in Intercollegiate Athletics: Origins, Trends and Policies
In this paper, the author provides an overview of economic inequality in intercollegiate athletics, tracing it from its origins in the late 19th century, through home rule, the introduction of the NCAA’s national broadcasting policy and its subsequent regionalization after…
Individual and Institutional Influences on Faith-based Health and Wellness Programming
The majority of the US population is affiliated with faith-based organizations (FBO). Health and wellness activities (HWAs) within FBOs have great potential for reach, though the factors influencing faith-based HWA are not well understood. The purpose of this study was…
Individual and contextual determinants of stable volunteering in sport clubs
This article addresses factors that influence voluntary sport club(VSC) members’ loyalty to voluntary engagement. The question asked is an issue of VSC volunteers’ commitment; whether they decide to quit or continue their engagement. A multilevel approach was used that considered…
Indian Spectacle: College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America.
Amid controversies surrounding the team mascot and brand of the Washington Redskins in the National Football League and the use of mascots by K–12 schools, Americans demonstrate an expanding sensitivity to the pejorative use of references to Native Americans by…
Increasing Lower Extremity Injury Rates Across the 2009-2010 to 2014-2015 Seasons of National Collegiate Athletic Association Football: An Unintended Consequence of the “Targeting” Rule Used to Prevent Concussions?
Background: Sports-related concussions (SRCs) have gained increased societal interest in the past decade. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has implemented legislation and rule changes to decrease the incidence and risk of head injury impacts. The “targeting” rule forbids initiating…
Incorporating Unstructured Free Play into Organized Sports.
Play is an essential element of positive youth development. Youth should engage in all 3 types of play (unstructured, semistructured, and structured) to best promote physical literacy, motor skill proficiency and muscle strength, long term athletic development, and fun. Unfortunately,…
Inconspicuous dressing: a critique of the construction-through-consumption paradigm in the sociology of clothing
Based on ‘wardrobe interviews’, this article studies how young Dutch men dress themselves. We argue that existing sociological studies of clothing have gone too far in emphasizing the symbolic aspects of clothing and have not paid sufficient attention to the…
Inclusive Soccer–Exclusive Politics? Sports Policy in Northern Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement
This article examines the proposals of a ministerial advisory panel that was set up in 2000 to examine the problems confronting soccer in Northern Ireland, not least of which is that the game has been perceived to be administered by…
Inclusive masculinity and the gendered politics of men’s rugby.
This ethnographic research uses one year of participant observation and 24 interviews to examine the construction of masculinity among team-members within a highly successful rugby squad, at a high-ranked academic university in England. We find that the players and coaches…
Inclusive Masculinities in Contemporary Football: Men in the Beautiful Game
The culture of association football (soccer) has often been branded as homophobic and a hostile environment for sexually diverse persons. In fact, Cashmore and Cleland (2011) in their sociological analysis, comment that football is “not known as a paradigm of…
Inclusion and Identity in the Mountain Biking Community: Can Subcultural Identity and Inclusivity Coexist?
Lifestyle sports studies have emphasized the boundary work done by core participants and the resulting exclusionary and hierarchical structures of these sports. Mountain biking is a lifestyle sport structured to incorporate new riders, yet bikers still share a group identity,…
Inadequate Helmet Fit Increases Concussion Severity in American High School Football Players
Background: There is limited information on the relationship between football helmet fit and concussion severity. Hypothesis: Poor helmet fit may predispose football players to a more severe concussion. Study Design: Descriptive epidemiology study. Level of Evidence: Level 3. Methods: Data…
In-ger-land, In-ger-land, In-ger-land! Exploring the impact of soccer on the sense of belonging of those seeking asylum in the UK
Utilising research conducted in Sheffield (UK) with people seeking asylum, this article explores the ways in which soccer might be used to create a sense of belonging in the host country. It explores participant feelings about soccer and its potential…
In The shadow of the Other: Boxing, Everyday Struggles and the Feeling of Strangeness
On the basis of an ethnography of a group of boxers, this article questions pugilism as an experience of confrontation with the other, the reasons and effects of which lie beyond the ring. Using the boxers’ words to explain their…
In search of a level playing field – the constraints and benefits of sport participation for people with intellectual disability.
This paper presents the results of a study seeking to examine the experiences of people with intellectual disability in a sporting context. The research design employed an online, interviewer-completed questionnaire in both a standard and an easy English version designed…
Implementation of concussion legislation and extent of concussion education for athletes, parents, and coaches in Washington state.
Background: Most states in the United States have passed laws regarding concussions, but little is known regarding the implementation of these laws. Hypothesis/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to survey high school coaches 3 years after the passage of…
Imperfect Perfection and Wheelchair Bodybuilding: Challenging Ableism or Reproducing Normalcy?
This article explores the impact of the binary configuration of disabled bodies as opposite and unequal to able bodies, and whether or not contemporary bodybuilding provides a space where this dualism can be overcome. Drawing on life history interviews with…
Impairment, cure and identity: ‘Where do I fit in?’
Discussion concerning the concept of cure has proved contentious within disability studies and the disability movement. This is because the ideology of ‘normalising’ the body has traditionally underpinned ideas about cure. Today, disability is increasingly understood in terms of oppression…
Impacts and strategic outcomes from non-mega sport events for local communities
The staging of sport events directly impacts the quality of life of people living in the host communities. Sport events are temporal and can trigger a variety of short- or long-term, positive or negative impacts, which lead to positive or…
Impact of sports’ characteristics on the labor market
The purpose of this article is to analyze how the characteristics of different sports affect their respective labor market characteristics. To that end, we first classified Korean sports into the following four groups according to number of spectators and playing…
Imagining neoliberal feminisms? Thinking critically about the US diplomacy campaign, ‘Empowering women and girls through sports’
This paper builds upon the sport for development scholarship that critically explores how Western ideals of gender and sport are mobilized within sport development campaigns. This growing body of development scholarship (e.g. Hayhurst, 2013, “Girls as the ‘New’ Agents of…
Imaging of physeal injury: Overuse.
Context: As the intensity of youth participation in athletic activities continues to rise, the number of overuse injuries has also increased. A subset of overuse injuries involves the physis, which is extremely susceptible to injury. This paper aims to review…
If You Jump Up and Down, Balotelli Dies: Racism and Player Abuse in Italian Football
Italian football has been in crisis for a number of years as global transformations and internal politics have manifested themselves in corruption, fan violence and financial insecurity. In addition to these, there has also been an increase in racism on…
Ideology doesn’t just happen: Sports and neoliberalism.
Research on sports in society is discouraged by essentialist beliefs that define sport as a fixed, innate expression of human impulses. This has undermined an awareness of sports as cultural practices and forms of social organization that are commonly used…
Identity socialization and construction within the French national rugby union women’s team.
The goal of this article is to present the output of a study on women who play rugby union at international level. This article aims to uncover the steps in their sport socialization – in rugby among others – and…
Identity Crossbreeding in Soccer Fan Groups: A Social Approach. The Case of Marseille (France)
The object of this investigation was to clarify certain mechanisms of identity categorization by studying, from a sociohistorical and psychological perspective, two groups of soccer fans from the city of Marseille. Through this pluralistic social approach, a more precise differentiation…
i9 and the Transformation of Youth Sport
In this article I present an analysis of how traditionally run competitive, organized team sports reproduce multiple socio negative effects for youth who play them. After explicating how the structure and culture of traditionally run competitive team sports operates in…
I’m Not Homophobic, “I’ve Got Gay Friends”: Evaluating the Validity of Inclusive Masculinity
Anderson’s concept of “inclusive masculinity” has generated significant academic and media interest recently. It claims to have replaced hegemonic masculinity as a theoretical framework for exploring gender relations in societies that show “decreased” levels of cultural homophobia and “homohysteria”; this…
I’m Not Allowed Wrestling Stuff: Hegemonic Masculinity and Primary School Boys
Hegemonic masculinity is Connell’s key concept in a hierarchical framework of masculinities which has had a significant influence on thinking about gender. This article draws on Connell’s theories, previous research and my empirical research to argue that there are limitations…
I’m gonna do this over and over and over forever!’: Overlapping fields and climbing practice.
In this article I explore some of the aspects of shared doxic principles between outdoor fields and how these contribute to agents becoming interested in ‘high-consequence’ climbing styles. I argue that people who come to be high-risk climbers do not…
I want to come here to prove them wrong’: using a post-colonial feminist participatory action research (PFPAR) approach to studying sport, gender and development programmes for urban Indigenous young women
How do young urban Aboriginal women in Vancouver, British Columbia, understand their experiences of participating in a sport, gender and development (SGD) programme that aims to enhance their lives? In this paper, we consider this question through a post-colonial feminist…
I Just Can’t Bear These Procedures, I Just Want to be Out There Working With Children: An Autoethnography on Neoliberalism and Youth Sports Charities in the UK. Sport, Education and Society
This paper uses an autoethnography to recount my experiences with SportHelp, a UK youth sports charity. Using a layered account format, which jumps through time and space, I demonstrate the extent to which neoliberal values have influenced the continuity and…
I Guess It’s Kind of Elitist: The Formation and Mobilisation of Cultural Social and Physical Capital in Youth Sport Volunteering
Policy and research portray sport volunteering as a means by which young people can develop skills and perform active citizenship. This paper draws on qualitative research with participants in a UK sport volunteering programme to critically examine young people’s volunteering…
Human Rights and Sports Mega-Events: The Role of Moral Disengagement in Spectators
Human rights issues such as freedom of speech, equality, and displacement are repeatedly connected with the hosting of sports mega-events. Governments and event organizers require public backing to ensure these events remain sustainable; this study provides an explanation as to…
How to Influence National Pride? The Olympic Medal Indexas a Unifying Narrative
Elite sport is often regarded as one of the main vehicles for articulating national pride and stimulating national cohesion. In this article, we explore a variety of different notions of pride and nationality as related to success in elite sport.…
How power moves: A Foucauldian analysis of (in)effective coaching
Knowing how to coach effectively is one ever-present truth across all sports and yet our previous research based on the work of Michel Foucault has illustrated how the effectiveness of endurance running coaches’ everyday coaching practices is limited by their…
How male young adults construe their playing style in violent video games
This study explores the various ways in which male young adults engage with violence in video games. Based on an ethnographic study (N = 26) with triangulation of diary reports, focus group interviews and a video commentary model, three conceptual…
How Far is Too Far? Understanding Identity and Overconformity in Collegiate Wrestlers
Athletes are expected to distinguish themselves from their peers, make sacrifices for the good of the game, play through pain and injury, and push physical and mental limits on the path to achieve their goals. Collectively, these expectations are known…
How Documentary Remade Mike Tyson.
This article will theorize the relationship between stardom and documentary by considering the ways in which documentary representations contribute to the discursive formation of a star. Specifically, the article will explore the central role that documentary film has played in…
How Can you Enjoy Sports if You are Under Control by Others? Self-Organized Lifestyle Sports and Youth Development
While research shows a positive association between participation in organized sports and youth development, research on alternative and unorganized sport settings is lacking. This paper analyzes developmental processes in a sample of unorganized lifestyle sport contexts, drawing on a Relational…
Hosting the Olympic Games: An Overstated Advantage in Sports History
Previous research on the home advantage in the history of the Olympic Games has found initial evidence that host nations have won more medals than non-hosts. In this paper, we argue that these findings are a myth of sports history,…
Hoops, History, and Crossing Over: Boundary Making and Community Building in Japanese American Youth Basketball Leagues.
My dissertation research examines how cultural organizations, particularly ethnic sports leagues, shape racial/ethnic and gender identity and community building among later-generation Japanese Americans. I focus my study on community-organized youth basketball leagues – a cultural outlet that spans several generations…
Hoop inequalities: Race, class and family structure background and the odds of playing in the National Basketball Association.
The popular image of the African American National Basketball Association (NBA) player as rising from the ‘ghetto’ to international fame and fortune misleads academics and publics alike. This false image is fueled, in part, by critical shortcomings in empirical research…
Honk if you like minorities: Vuvuzela attitudes predict outgroup liking.
The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa generated extensive controversy over spectators’ use of the African vuvuzela trumpet. We asked 123 White American participants about their opinions of vuvuzelas as well as their attitudes towards a variety of racial/ethnic…
Honey or Vinegar? Athletes with Disabilities Discuss Strategies for Advocacy Within the Paralympic Movement.
Drawing on interviews with 25 athletes with disabilities and para-sport participants (coaches, volunteers, and supporters), and on posts and comments made on a multi-authored blog discussing Paralympic sport, this article addresses how individuals advocate on behalf of disability sport. Our…
Homines in Extremis: What Fighting Scholars Teach Us about Habitus
I use the collection of “carnal ethnographies” of martial arts and combat sports assembled by Raul Sanchez and Dale Spencer under the title Fighting Scholars to spotlight the fruitfulness of deploying habitus as both empirical object (explanandum) and method of…
Hombres Mujeres: An Indigenous Third Gender
This article interrogates West and Zimmerman’s Doing Gender paradigm by examining the Muxes of Juchitán, a little known third gender in El Istmo de Tehuantepec, Oaxaca México. After presenting preliminary findings based on personal interviews with forty-two muxes and forty-eight…
Holistic Life-Span Health Outcomes Among Elite Intercollegiate Student-Athletes
Competitive sports are recognized as having unique health benefits and risks, and the effect of sports on lifespan health among elite athletes has received increasing attention. However, supporting scientific data are sparse and do not represent modern athletes. To assess…