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Public dollars, private stadiums, and democracy / Kevin J. Delaney and Rick Eckstein -- May the best team win : making baseball competitive / Andrew Zimbalist -- Rooting the home team : why the Packers won't leave and why the Browns did / David Morris and Daniel Kraker -- America's fast growing sport / Brian O'Keefe and Julie Schlosser -- Building a mini metropolis known as the U.S. Open / Bill Pennington -- Money, myth and the big match : the political economy of the sports media / David Rowe -- Losing control of the ball : the political economy of football and the media in Australia / Murray Phillips and Brett Hutchins -- The global sport mass media oligopoly : the three usual suspects and more / Alan Law, Jean Harvey, and Stuart Kemp -- Football, television, and the Supreme Court : how a decision 20 years ago brought commercialization to the world of college sports / Welch Suggs -- Marketers are joining the varsity / Stuart Elliott -- Who's playing college sports? Trends in participation / John Cheslock -- The game of life : taking stock / James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen -- Race, cultural capital, and the educational effects of participation in sports / Tamela McNulty Eitle and David Eitle -- High school football : deep in the heart of South Tejas / Douglas Foley -- Odd jobs help college teams stay afloat / Teddy Kider -- Where are the jocks for justice? / Kelly Candale and Peter Dreier -- Sport, masculinity, and Black cultural resistance / Ben Carrington -- Televised sport, masculinist moral capital, and support for the invasion of Iraq / Carl Stempel -- Gay games or gay olympics? Implications for lesbian inclusion / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj -- Argentina's left-wingers / Leslie Ray -- Carlos Delgado stands up to war / Dave Zirin -- Emotionality in the stands and in the field : expressing self through baseball / Nick Trujillo and Bob Krizek -- Joe Louis uncovers dynamite / Richard Wright -- Supporters, followers, fans, and fla?neurs : a taxonomy of spectator identities in football / Richard Giulianotti -- Something about baseball : gentrification, race sponsorship, and competing class cultures in neighborhood boys' baseball / Sherri Grasmuck -- Hardball ain't the only game in Brooklyn anymore / Lee Jenkins and Michael Schmidt -- Making sense of muscle : the body experiences of collegiate women athletes / Molly George -- Managing bodily capital / Loi?c Wacquant -- Hindu nationalism, cultural spaces, and bodily practices in India / Ian McDonald -- Athletes embrace size, rejecting stereotypes / Jere? Longman -- Male athletes, injuries, and violence / Michael A. Messner -- The structure of sport and participant violence / John Schneider and D. Stanley Eitzen -- On-field player violence / Randall Collins -- Backtalk : violence, redemption and the cost of sports / Robert Lipsyte.

Latrell Sprewell. Allen Iverson. John McEnroe. Even Mohammed Ali and Mike Schmidt and Michael Jordan. These are characters of our national imagination, athletes who stand as symbols of our complex relationship with professional sport. In this erudite and captivating book, bestselling author Larry Platt takes us on a tour through American sports. Offering profiles of the athletes we love (and love to hate), Platt shows that sport, more than any other nationwide pastime, is the way we come to understand—and alter—race relations, gender, and, most profoundly, how we communicate with