Fair Play? Issues and Trends in Big Time Sports
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 122
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While traditional sports scholarships focus on events, athletes, games, competitions, leagues and franchises, examining their main transformations across time, Fair Play? Issues and Trends in Big Time Sports emphasizes the developments that have shaped current concerns and controversies in the world of sports entertainment. Detailed analyses are presented on relevant topics such as sports gambling, brain injuries and the use of performance enhancing drugs in professional sports, as well as the relationship of global media and sports, and the consolidation of professional sports as the ultimate form of mass entertainment. The book also highlights the ways in which the sports world has echoed the predominant values and core principles embedded in the general social landscape. The ways in which people participate in sports, as players, managers, coaches or spectators, are congruent with the social conditions of the society in which they live. In professional sports prevalent ideologies have been and continue to be debated and contested that challenge the status quo and question relevant social issues such as the struggle against racial prejudice and gender inequity.
CHAPTER 1 Sports and Brain Damage, 1906-2020
CHAPTER 2 Sports Brands, from Spalding to ESPN
CHAPTER 3 Independence Day in Winter: The History of the Super Bowl
CHAPTER 4 Amateurs to Cyborgs: The Metamorphoses of the Athletic Body
CHAPTER 5 Framing the Athlete’s Female Body
CHAPTER 6 Roone Arledge: Sports and Showbiz
CHAPTER 7 From Olympia to Corporate Utopia: The Olympic Games, 1896–2021
CHAPTER 8 Sports Betting: From the Black Sox to the Professional Amateur Sports Protection Act
CHAPTER 9 Female Player Activism
CHAPTER 10 African American Athletes and Human Rights
Juan Javier Pescador is a sports historian at Michigan State University with a special interest in Big Time Sports, both college and pro. His books include Campus, Brand & Circus: A Social History of College Sports as well as several other monographs published in the US, Mexico and Spain. Pescador has also made several documentary films that have been screened at national and international film festivals. He is an avid participant in triathlons, long distance races and Ironman events.
New Publication Now Available!
While traditional sports scholarships focus on events, athletes, games, competitions, leagues and franchises, examining their main transformations across time, Fair Play? Issues and Trends in Big Time Sports emphasizes the developments that have shaped current concerns and controversies in the world of sports entertainment. Detailed analyses are presented on relevant topics such as sports gambling, brain injuries and the use of performance enhancing drugs in professional sports, as well as the relationship of global media and sports, and the consolidation of professional sports as the ultimate form of mass entertainment. The book also highlights the ways in which the sports world has echoed the predominant values and core principles embedded in the general social landscape. The ways in which people participate in sports, as players, managers, coaches or spectators, are congruent with the social conditions of the society in which they live. In professional sports prevalent ideologies have been and continue to be debated and contested that challenge the status quo and question relevant social issues such as the struggle against racial prejudice and gender inequity.
CHAPTER 1 Sports and Brain Damage, 1906-2020
CHAPTER 2 Sports Brands, from Spalding to ESPN
CHAPTER 3 Independence Day in Winter: The History of the Super Bowl
CHAPTER 4 Amateurs to Cyborgs: The Metamorphoses of the Athletic Body
CHAPTER 5 Framing the Athlete’s Female Body
CHAPTER 6 Roone Arledge: Sports and Showbiz
CHAPTER 7 From Olympia to Corporate Utopia: The Olympic Games, 1896–2021
CHAPTER 8 Sports Betting: From the Black Sox to the Professional Amateur Sports Protection Act
CHAPTER 9 Female Player Activism
CHAPTER 10 African American Athletes and Human Rights
Juan Javier Pescador is a sports historian at Michigan State University with a special interest in Big Time Sports, both college and pro. His books include Campus, Brand & Circus: A Social History of College Sports as well as several other monographs published in the US, Mexico and Spain. Pescador has also made several documentary films that have been screened at national and international film festivals. He is an avid participant in triathlons, long distance races and Ironman events.