Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back : : Dilemmas of the Modern Fan / / Kavitha Davidson, Jessica Luther.
Triumphant wins, gut-wrenching losses, last-second shots, underdogs, competition, and loyalty—it’s fun to be a fan. But when a football player takes a hit to the head after yet another study has warned of the dangers of CTE, or when a team whose mascot was born in an era of racism and bigotry takes...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 Watching Football When We Know (Even a Little) about Brain Trauma
- CHAPTER 2 Forgiving the Doper You Love
- CHAPTER 3 Cheering for a Team with a Racist Mascot
- CHAPTER 4 Embracing Tennis despite Its Inequities
- CHAPTER 5 Coping When the Sports You Love Are Anti-LGBTQ+
- CHAPTER 6 Watching Women’s Basketball When People Tell You You’re the Only One
- CHAPTER 7 Consuming Sports Media . . . Even If You Don’t Look Like the People on TV
- CHAPTER 8 Rooting for Your Team When the Star Is Accused of Domestic Violence
- CHAPTER 9 Loving Your Team When You Hate the Owner
- CHAPTER 10 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Baseball’s Free Market
- CHAPTER 11 Doubling Down on Your March Madness Bracket Even If the Athletes Don’t Make a Dime
- CHAPTER 12 Living with the New Stadium You Didn’t Want to Pay For
- CHAPTER 13 Enjoying the Olympics Despite the Harm to Your Community
- CHAPTER 14 Embracing That Athletes—and Sports—Are Political
- CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- INDEX