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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Essays -- Corrupt Means, but the Potential for Millions: Rhetorical Approaches to Studying Corruption in Sport -- Just Add an Asterisk: A Look at Sport, Society, and Scandal -- U.S. Sport Gambling: A History of Illegality and Intermittent Scandals, but Now a Mostly Legal and Growing Industry With Many Unanswered Questions -- Cases -- 1. Louisville Grays and Throwing Games (1876-1877) -- 2. Fred Lorz and the Olympics Cheating "Shortcut" (1904) -- 3. Blondy Wallace and Fixing Football Games (1906) -- 4. Chicago White Sox World Series Scandal (1919-1921) -- 5. Peter Barrie and Horse Bleaching (1926) -- 6. William and Mary Athlete Transcript Scandal (1939-1951) -- 7. City College of New York Point-Shaving (1950-1951) -- 8. New York Giants and Sign-Stealing (1951, 2001) -- 9. Gaylord Perry and Scuffing Baseballs (1962-1983) -- 10. Miami Dolphins Hiring of Don Shula Away From the Baltimore Colts (1970) -- 11. Jane Blalock Versus the LPGA (1972-1975) -- 12. Southwestern Louisiana Basketball Grade Fraud (1973) -- 13. SMU Football Scandal (1978-1987) -- 14. Boston College Point-Shaving (1978-1979) -- 15. Rosie Ruiz and the Boston Marathon (1980-2000) -- 16. Charley Pell and University of Florida Cheating (1982) -- 17. Tulane Point-Shaving (1984-1985) -- 18. Pete Rose and Gambling (1985-1989) -- 19. Jose Canseco and Performance-Enhancing Drugs (1985-2001) -- 20. Jerry Tarkanian and UNLV Paying Players (1987-1992) -- 21. University of Kentucky and Recruiting Violations (1988-1989) -- 22. Michigan Basketball Scandal (1989-2003) -- 23. Jimmy Collins and College Basketball Recruiting Scandal (1989-1992) -- 24. Miami Football Pell Grant Scandal (1989-1995) -- 25. The Mysterious Death of Alydar (1990) -- 26. Arizona State Point-Shaving (1993-1994).

This volume brings together a collection of essays from leading global scholars working in diverse areas as sport sociology, sport management, sport media, and sport communication to illustrate how sociological approaches are imperative to enhancing our understanding of sport and social media and digital technology.

This research explored how National Football League (NFL) players used Twitter to discuss the verdict in the George Zimmerman murder trial in the immediate aftermath of its announcement. A textual analysis, using constant comparative procedures of 465 tweets from 125 NFL players, was conducted. Results revealed that players discussed the case in the following ways: (a) anticipation, (b) disbelief, (c) critiques of the American Justice System, (d) social commentary, (e) condolences and support, (f) responding to fans, and (g) freedom of speech arguments. The results suggest that Twitter is a viable mechanism for African American and other minority athletes to engage in activism and initiate important conversations about social justice issues. Although empowering, this also may create conflict for team personnel and fans who may be uncomfortable with athletes using Twitter to question structures that favor Whiteness.

Media framing and athlete mental health / David Cassilo -- Media framing, sport, and public health / Travis R. Bell, Janelle Applequist -- Developing a rhetoric of mental health from a communication and sport perspective / Katherine L. Lavelle -- Corporate social responsibility and health promotion campaigns among major U.S. professional sporting leagues / Adam Rugg -- Parents and child communication and health risks in sport / Joseph McGlynn -- Coach-athlete communication and implications for health / Gregory A. Cranmer / Rikishi T. Rey, SaiDatta Mikkilineni -- Why kinesiology and athletics departments should collaborate to advance health equity / Larry D. Proctor, Sarah Stokowski, Danielle McArdle, Keith Harrison -- Health policymaking in organizations / Nicole Butterbaugh, Blair Browning -- Sport and health risk culture / Jennifer McMahon, Kerry R. McGannon, Chris Zehntner -- The U.S. Center for SafeSport : preventing abuse and misconduct in sport / Erin McConnell, Nicole Johnson -- Athletes, social media, and health / Ellen MacPherson, Erin Wilson, Gretchen Kerr -- Athletes, mental health, and the COVID-19 pandemic / Carly Perry, Ali Bowes, Alex Culvin -- Athletes, wearable technology and health implications / Roth Smith.

This essay explores a set of new media user trends that are (re)shaping fan–athlete interaction through (para)social connections. Acting as bonding agents, the trends considered either contribute to or detract from membership in the community of sport. Accordingly, social leveling practices, invitational uses, and bridging functions serve to connect people within the community of sport, whereas policing, maladaptive parasocial interaction, and hypermasculinity function to disconnect people from the community of sport. The essay looks at these trends in detail and provides examples of each in practice. It concludes with a discussion of the digital literacy implications that fan–athlete interaction via new media introduces.

Death and bereavement are human experiences that new media helps facilitate alongside creating new social grief practices that occur online. This study investigated how people's postings and tweets facilitated the communication of grief after pop music icon Michael Jackson died. Drawing on past grief research, religion, and new media studies, a thematic analysis of 1,046 messages was conducted on three mediated sites (Twitter, TMZ.com, and Facebook). Results suggested that social media served as grieving spaces for people to accept Jackson's death rather than denying it or expressing anger over his passing. The findings also illustrate how interactive exchanges online helped recycle news and "resurrected" the life of Jackson. Additionally, as fans of deceased celebrities create and disseminate web-based memorials, new social media practices such as "Michael Mondays" synchronize tweets within everyday life rhythms and foster practices to hasten the grieving process.

This article considers how American cyclist Floyd Landis is commodified, or produced and reproduced (hereafter "re/produced"), for consumption through the multiple texts of his mediated campaign to fight doping allegations, a campaign that emphasized digital media. Critical discourse analysis revealed several intertextually related narratives deployed for consumption by fans and supporters, narratives that commodified Landis in a variety of complex and interrelated ways. The overriding self-referential narrative across the defense campaign texts commodified Landis as the epic (American) hero fighting for justice against insurmountable odds, institutional forces, and foreign conspiracies, yet remaining grounded, accessible, and available for consumption by fans and supporters. It is suggested here that the effective consumption of Landis's campaign is partly due to features of digital media that render it a powerful site for guiding interpretations and for performing identities in ways that directly re/ produce users and fans as part of the promotional cycle. Equally, using digital media simultaneously enacted other key discourses (such as justice and democratization) mobilized in the campaign.