Case Studies in Sport Communication

by Brown, Robert S.

• ISBN13: 9780275975319
• ISBN10: 0275975312
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-30
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

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."

Author Biography

ROBERT S. BROWN is Director of the Sport Communication Program and Assistant Professor of Communication at Ashland University.DANIEL J. O'ROURKE is Assistant Professor Public Communiction at Ashland University.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Robert S. Brown
Introduction	xi
Nick Trujillo
The Rhetorical Resurgence of Pete Rose: A Second-Chance Apologia	1	(26)
Todd F. McDorman
Hoop Games: A Narrative Analysis of Television Coverage of Women's and Men's Professional Basketball	27	(24)
Leah R. Vande Berg
Sarah Projansky
Dueling Genders: Announcer Bias in the 1999 U.S. Open Tennis Tournament	51	(12)
Andrew C. Billings
The Talk of the Town: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Browns' Departure from and Return to Cleveland	63	(18)
Daniel J. O'Rourke III
Sport, (Dis)Ability, and Public Controversy: Ableist Rhetoric and Casey Martin v. PGA Tour, Inc.	81	(24)
James L. Cherney
Regulating Sport Rationality in America through the Moral Controversy of Extreme Fighting	105	(20)
Thomas Vaughn
The Resignification of Risk in Marketing Whitewater: Ritual Initiation and the Mythology of River Culture	125	(16)
Elliot Gaines
Coachtalk: Good Reasons for Winning and Losing	141	(18)
John Todd Llewellyn
Metaphor in Sport Policy Debate: Parliament and British Soccer Violence	159	(12)
Robert S. Brown
Fifty-Eight American Dreams: The NBA Draft as Mediated Ritual	171	(30)
Richard Olsen
Index	201	(6)
About the Contributors	207