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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A Note to the Reader | |
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| Introduction: Sport as a Model of Meritocracy | |
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| Raiding the Public Treasury: The Political Economy of Professional Sports | |
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| Public Dollars, Private Stadiums, and Democracy | |
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| May the Best Team Win: Making Baseball Competitive | |
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| Rooting the Home Team: Why the Packers Won't Leave-and Why the Browns Did | |
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| America's Fastest Growing Sport | |
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| Building a Mini Metropolis Known as the U.S. Open | |
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| The Faustian Bargain: Big-Time Sports and the Media | |
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| Money, Myth and the Big Match: The Political Economy of the Sports Media | |
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| Losing Control of the Ball: The Political Economy of Football and the Media in Australia | |
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| The Global Sport Mass Media Oligopoly: The Three Usual Suspects and More | |
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| Football, Television, and the Supreme Court: How a Decision 20 Years Ago Brought Commercialization to the World of College Sports | |
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| Marketers are Joining the Varsity | |
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| True Love, or a Marriage of Convenience? Sports and Education | |
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| Who's Playing College Sports? Trends in Participation | |
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| The Game of Life: Taking Stock | |
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| Race, Cultural Capital, and the Educational Effects of Participation in Sports | |
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| High School Football: Deep in the Heart of South Tejas | |
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| Odd Jobs Help College Teams Stay Afloat | |
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| The Power of Athletics: Sports and Politics | |
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| Where are the Jocks for Justice? | |
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| Sport, Masculinity, and Black Cultural Resistance | |
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| Televised Sport, Masculinist Moral Capital, and Support for the Invasion of Iraq | |
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| Gay Games or Gay Olympics? Implications for Lesbian Inclusion | |
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| Argentina's Left-Wingers | |
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| Carlos Delgado Stands up to War | |
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| More Than a Game: Fandom and Community in Sports | |
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| Emotionality in the Stands and in the Field: Expressing Self Through Baseball | |
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| Joe Louis Uncovers Dynamite | |
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| Supporters, Followers, Fans, and Fl�neurs: A Taxonomy of Spectator Identities in Football | |
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| Something About Baseball: Gentrification, "Race Sponsorship," and Competing Class Cultures in Neighborhood Boys' Baseball | |
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| Hardball Ain't the Only Game in Brooklyn Anymore | |
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| Socializing the Anatomy: Body Culture and Sport | |
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| Making Sense of Muscle: The Body Experiences of Collegiate Women Athletes | |
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| Managing Bodily Capital | |
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| Hindu Nationalism, Cultural Spaces, and Bodily Practices In India | |
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| Athletes Embrace Size, Rejecting Stereotypes | |
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| Giving Up Your Body: Violence and Injuries in Sports | |
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| Male Athletes, Injuries, and Violence | |
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| The Structure of Sport and Participant Violence | |
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| On-Field Player Violence | |
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| Backtalk: Violence, Redemption and the Cost of Sports | |
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| About the Editors | |
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| Index | |