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From the inception f the field of sports history in the early 1970s, a major area of research regarding US sports history has been documenting how racial and ethnic minorities played, participated in, and used athletics for various purposes, such as to challenge negative ethnic stereotypes and to hold on to aspects of their own cultures. Several early projects dealt with baseball in the lives of African Americans, particularly about the Negro Leagues and their importance to civic life in the years after the Great Migration. Subsequently, scholars researched other groups and their experiences with sport. A worthwhile example of such works on Italian Americans (Baldassaro 2011) is noted under General Overviews and Related Articles. While the discipline has expanded, one glaring lacuna has remained: the participation of the Latino community in sport (at all levels) and the significance thereof. Fortunately, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries a few individuals have begun to remedy this gap. While certainly not the oldest project, the most important early work is Viva Baseball! Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger (Regalado 1998, cited under Baseball).

"In den mehr als 9.600 Sportvereinen in Niedersachsen engagieren sich viele tausend Menschen ehrenamtlich und hauptberuflich und leisten ihren zivilgesellschaftlichen Beitrag. Sport vermittelt nicht nur positive Werte und fördert die Gesundheit und das Miteinander, er ist ein Bildungsträger und ein Kulturgut. Als solches wird der Sport aber vielfach nicht bewertet." (Einleitung)

The fan sports blogger, a sports fan who contributes their own narratives to the quotidian reportage of sports by publishing an online sports news site on platforms like Blogger and Wordpress, is a relatively new fan presence. The scant research devoted to this nascent culture has questioned its potential impact on mainstream sports media, or the blogging behaviour of sports entities, but little yet is understood about the output and information-seeking behaviours of these fan bloggers. Given the increasingly entwined relationship between media and sport, these bloggers can be viewed as both sports fans, of which there is a growing corpus of surrounding literature, and as media consumers who gather information from the source they emulate. An increased understanding of these fan bloggers can illustrate how sports media audiences both harness and make sense of the media they consume and offer key insights into the interpretative behaviours of sports audiences. In this project a case study of 20 fan sports blogs from two sports blogospheres were analysed, looking for ways in which fan sports bloggers both use mainstream sports media and emulate sports media in two different sports contexts.

Das Buch geht in drei Schritten auf die moralischen Voraussetzungen (u. a. die Olympische Idee), ethischen Implikationen (u. a. das Dopingverbot) und die daraus erwachsenen institutionellen Verantwortlichkeiten (u. a. die Sportmedien) des aktuellen Sportbetriebs ein. Fünfzehn namhafte Sportwissenschaftler und Philosophen, die sich schon in unterschiedlicher Weise zu Fragen der Moral und Ethik im Sport in den letzten Jahren geäussert haben, stellen gemeinsam ihre verschiedenen Positionen zur Diskussion. Auf diese Weise ist eine Dokumentation zeitgemäe︢r Aussagen zur Ethik im Sport entstanden, die in solcher komprimierten Form noch nicht zur Verfügung stand

Die USA gelten als die führende Sportnation. Doch was wissen wir wirklich über den amerikanischen Sport, außer dass Baseball, American Football und Cheerleading aus diesem Land stammen? Was versteht man unter Begriffen wie Athletics, Intercollegiate Sports, Intramural Sports, Title IX, Physical Education, Super Bowl oder dem "Y"? Bisher gibt es nur wenig deutschsprachige Literatur über den amerikanischen Sport, seine Strukturen und Ausprägungsformen. Dieses Buch soll diese Lücke ein wenig schließen. Die einzelnen Beiträge, die von namhaften amerikanischen und deutschen Sportwissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftlern verfasst sind, zeigen, dass der Sport in den USA eine ganz andere Struktur als der deutsche Sport mit seinem Vereinswesen aufweist. The USA are regarded as the leading sporting nation. But what do we really know about the American sport besides the fact that Baseball, American Football and Cheerleading originate there? What is meant by terms such as Athletics, Intercollegiate Sports, Intramural Sports, Title IX, Physical Education or the "Y"? So far, there has been only little German language literature about the American sport, its structures and characteristic forms. This book is making a first try to close this gap. The individual contributions, which have been written by well-known American and German researchers on sport sciences, show that sport in America has a completely different structure than German sport with its clubs and societies.

On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, Annelies Knoppers, one of the leading scholars in understanding the culture of sport in organizational settings, considers how the critical lens of sociology can enhance and mesh with research on sport management. Knoppers argues that there have been lost opportunities and understandings from the little overlap between scholars publishing in journals in the sociology of sport and sport management. Using the topic of gender and leadership, she describes the benefits that might result from using a sociological lens and a 'critical reflexivity' to study power and social inequalities in sport management and organizations. Consideration is given to how critical understandings about gender can enhance organizational effectiveness by valuing 'hybridity' in leadership styles. The essay closes with arguments for a critical intersectional approach to the study of sport management with recognition that 'disciplinary' practices shape the wielding of leadership power within organizations.

"Fundamentalismus" ist ein Schlüsselbegriff der gegenwärtigen Weltpolitik. Er meint gemeinhin eine gewaltbereite Form religiösen Fanatismus. Wenn in diesem Buch Fundamentalismen angesprochen werden, die den Sport bedrohen, ist der Begriff weiter oder anders konzipiert. Er meint hier die Aufhebung der Arbeitsteilung zwischen den Sinnfeldern durch den Hegemonieanspruch der sich mächtig wähnenden und dadurch scheinbar gerechtfertigten Übergriffe in deren sinneigene Abläufe. Solche fundamentalistischen Anmaßungen bedrohen nicht nur den Sport, sondern eine menschengerechte Gestaltung unserer Welt überhaupt. Aber eben auch den Sport. Der Band bearbeitet das Grundthema mit folgenden Schwerpunkten: Für eine gehaltvollere Fassung des Begriffs Fundamentalismus wird tiefer gebohrt als üblich. Bedrohungen des Sports durch verschiedene Formen von Fundamentalismus werden in dem Spannungsfeld zwischen Selbstzweckhaftigkeit des Sports als eines autonomen Kulturgutes und Versuchen zu seiner Instrumentalisierung als Dienstleister für außersportliche Zwecke verortet. Sport in der kommunalen Kulturpolitik wird exemplarisch als Form von "fundamentalismus-resistenter Gegenwelt" porträtiert.

Die USA gelten als die führende Sportnation. Doch was wissen wir wirklich über den amerikanischen Sport, ausser dass Baseball, American Football und Cheerleading aus diesem Land stammen? Was versteht man unter Begriffen wie Athletics, Intercollegiate Sports, Intramural Sports, Title IX, Physical Education, Super Bowl oder dem Y ?

One of the many "taken-for-granted" assumptions that prevails within the realm of sport, states that top level athletes serve as ideals for children, and thus contributes to create and broaden the interest for sport among the younger generation. Top level athletes are thus assumed to play similar functions vis a vis youngsters' and their relations to sport as, for instance, certain pop stars are supposed to do as regards youngsters' relations to pop music. This report is going to deal with the mentioned "taken-for-granted" assumption and thus only touch a small part of the whole problem of adolescent sub-cultures, as we shall focus attention on some problems of sport ideal and sport involvement. More specifically the intention is, in the first place to look into the theoretical basis for making assumptions about sport ideals and their potential impact upon youngsters' involvement in sport, and, in the second place, to highlight on an empirical basis: — The extent to which male and female youngsters of different age choose a sport ideal, — to what extent male and female athletes are chosen as ideals, — which sport branches are represented in the choices, and — the relationship between having a sport ideal and (a) the youngsters' involvement in sport and (b) their social background.

Sport celebrates basic human values of freedom, justice and courage. This collection of essays probes beneath those assumptions in order to illuminate how sport is intimately related to power and domination. Topics include the media treatment of sport, drug-taking in sport and the controversial and problematic relationship between sport and politics in Russia and South Africa.