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Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport

Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport

Eitzen, D. Stanley
Cooky, Cheryl
Messner, Michael A.

Paperback

Sports GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1538175665
ISBN13: 9781538175668
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Apr 15 2025
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Sport is a pervasive aspect of US society. Most children in the U.S. are involved in organized sport and it's the subject of much conversation, media content, leisure activity, and discretionary spending. There is a growing number of broadcast networks, online news sites, social media accounts, and streaming platforms devoted to covering sports that fans consume with keen interest. But do we truly understand sport?

Fair and Foul explores our love of sport, just as it reveals sport's darker side-the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, gender bias, media grandstanding, and more. Broken into two parts, Part I, Sport is Fair, Sport is Foul, discusses issues of social class, race, gender, and health as well as the opportunities and demands of youth sports. Part II, Sports as a Microcosm of Society, examines issues stemming from the media, college athletics, professional sports franchises, and whether it's possible to bring about change for a better and brighter future.

Ideal for sparking classroom discussion, Fair and Foul is an excellent book for students of sports and society, American culture, and other courses.

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