Case Studies In Sport Communication
Brown and O'Rourke have compiled a collection of ten qualitative studies analyzing the narratives that surround the physical and ritualistic activities of sport. Among the topics examined to explore the storied relationship of sport and communication are baseball, the WNBA, and soccer hooliganism.\ Americans love sports. We play sports, watch sports, read about sports, listen to and talk about sports. Brown and O'Rourke provide an introduction to the study of the narratives that surround the...
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Essays analyzing the narratives that surround the physical and ritualistic activities of sport.
PrefaceIntroduction1The Rhetorical Resurgence of Pete Rose: A Second-Chance Apologia12Hoop Games: A Narrative Analysis of Television Coverage of Women's and Men's Professional Basketball273Dueling Genders: Announcer Bias in the 1999 U.S. Open Tennis Tournament514The Talk of the Town: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Browns' Departure from and Return to Cleveland635Sport, (Dis)Ability, and Public Controversy: Ableist Rhetoric and Casey Martin v. PGA Tour, Inc816Regulating Sport Rationality in America through the Moral Controversy of Extreme Fighting1057The Resignification of Risk in Marketing Whitewater: Ritual Initiation and the Mythology of River Culture1258Coachtalk: Good Reasons for Winning and Losing1419Metaphor in Sport Policy Debate: Parliament and British Soccer Violence15910Fifty-Eight American Dreams: The NBA Draft as Mediated Ritual171Index201About the Contributors207
