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...Al-Tony Gilmore Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 The Myth, Legend, and Folklore of Joe Louis: The Impression of Sport on Society Al-Tony Gilmore In recent years the study of sport and society has examined a variety of issues. Little work has been done, however...

...John Hartley Duke University Press 2006 John Hartley Sync or Swim? Plebiscitary Sport, Synchronized Voting, and the Shift from Mars to Venus New things are happening at the interface of sport and media that may barely be visible from...

...Pamela Haag Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Pamela Haag The 50,000-Watt Sports Bar : Talk Radio and the Ethic of the Fan Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh GOOD afternoon everybody how are you todayyyyy. So begins an­ other afternoon with Mad Dog Russo, the pied piper of sports talk radio...

... Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 SAQ Sports Community Album 562 Golden Phil Deloria in 1972. Junior equestrienne Priscilla Lane in 1944- Sports Community Album 563 Being like Mike Oriard at Notre Dame in 1969 (Bradley Photographers, Dallas). 564 Cross-country runner James J...

...Kenneth L. Parker Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Kenneth L. Parker Never on a Sunday: Why Sunday Afternoon Sports Transformed Seventeenth-Century England In the early 1980s, I was a graduate student at Cambridge University, researching a doctoral dissertation on early modem...

...Philip Deloria Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Philip Deloria I Am of the Body : Thoughts on My Grandfather, Culture, and Sports Like his father before him, my grandfather, Vine Deloria, Sr., was an Episcopalian minister. A powerful orator, his sermons moved people...

.... I provide close readings of black cult figures and texts that I argue combine camp and chitlin circuit elements (the Harlem Globetrotters, Cheech and Chong’s “Basketball Jones,” Gilbert Moses’s The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh ). In exploring the existence of campy sports culture, queer athleticism...

... Culture At this introductory juncture of an issue focused on the emotive purchase and resonance of sport, the reader is probably expecting me to provide a pithy personal observation...

..., Bruce. “Sports and Masculinity.” In Michael Kaufman, ed., Beyond Patriarchy: Essays by Men on Pleasure, Power, and Change . Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1987 . Kimmel, Michael. Manhood in America: A Cultural History . New York: Free Press, 1996 . Massey, Doreen. Space, Place, and Gender...

... list of bad moments in sports, a classic example of the disappoint­ ment that only errant athletes can deliver. We return to it not just because sports so often makes a fetish of its history, but because it contains particu­ larly touching instances of squandered talent. Over the first ten months...

... for the swirling ram horn on the helmets. My son and I are to some degree representative of our generations. My childhood sporting world was more local, his is more national; mine was largely defined by geography, his by television. Mine was characterized by scarcity, and by comedy or tragedy; his by abundance...

... is only raised if the name-calling takes a more explic- itly racist turn—when indigenous Americans are referred to as Red Indi- ans, Redskins, or Red Men, perhaps. However, within the discourse of orga- nized sports in this country, even names like these are perfectly acceptable; they are routinely...

...: not The South Atlantic Quarterly 95:2, Spring 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press. CCC 0038-2876/9650. 280 James T. Fisher just the voice of the Pirates, he embodied the Buccos character and per­ sonality. In reading the essays for this special issue of SAQon Real Sports, I was fascinated...

.... casinos saw three times more attendees than all Major League Baseball franchises combined. What about participation sports like skiing? Forgetaboutit: There are five times more Ameri- cans in the casinos than...

... and remain one to this day, despite my best efforts to rid myself of the ‘‘affliction I call it an affliction because the Yankees are considered by most observers of baseball and professional sports in general to be the devil incarnate. Furthermore, many of my favorite theoretical per- spectives, to say...

... regarding American citizenship, racial politics, and popular culture. However, on my return from Atlanta that fall I transformed my project to focus solely on sports as a means to discuss the culture of civil rights, and moved Smith and Carlos to center stage. I had gone to Atlanta as a part...

...—the bedroom that is fes- tooned from floor to ceiling with pictures and memorabilia of just this one sports figure, the parents who gave their hapless newborn child the names of all eleven players of a championship-winning English soccer team, and the horrific incident in which a besotted Steffi Graf fan...

... as to want to excuse the heavy freight of snobbism and exclusion that has been part of the game’s history. Yet I do believe that any black-and- white view of golf ’s political incorrectness misses the multiple, sometimes unexpected layers of history, experience, and involvement that make the sport...

... 2006 Notes on Contributors david l. andrews is associate professor in the Sport Commerce and Culture Program of the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland in College Park. He is author of Sport-Commerce-Culture: Essays on Sport in Late Capitalist America (2006...

... of James Michael Curley, the kind of character Axthelm loved telling stories about called the hidden history at the edge of the page. 1 Our focus will fall somewhere between the per­ son and the persona, on the place that Axthelm crafted for himself within a tradition of urban sports journalism whose...