[PDF] Stories Of Sports eBook

Author : Katherin Garland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 179362223X

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Stories of Sports: Critical Literacy in Media Production, Consumption, and Dissemination discusses how media demonstrates privilege, policing, stereotypes, confirmation bias, and objectification in a world where the role of athletics in Western society speaks to privilege and power. Contributors use a critical media lens to analyze texts, including newspapers, magazines, film, television, social media, and sportscasts to demonstrate to readers the ways in which sports stories reinforce or disrupt patterns of power and the ways that power is enacted. This book questions the role of the sports-industrial complex in our society and argues that, while healthy competition and physical health can come from bodily exertion, corruption can contaminate these benefits with the wielding of influence and the acquisition of cultural and financial capital. Contributors examine how the ways that resources are allocated, the coverage of certain sports and athletes, and how viewers view competitive arenas speak to power and privilege in ways that can affect both athletes and athletic stakeholders, highlighting the importance of critically examining sports media. Scholars of media studies and sports will find this book particularly useful.

Author : John C. Decker
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 11,40 MB
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 0253036194

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For over 125 years, Hoosier athletes and coaches have grabbed headlines with their accomplishments and accolades. Legendary performers and larger-than-life figures have called Bloomington home, and their stories have been passed down through generations. But for every classic tale about a Hoosier athlete, coach, or program, there's another that's been forgotten. Until now. After gaining unprecedented access to IU archives and longtime employees, authors John Decker, Pete DiPrimio, and Doug Wilson reveal events and images that were lost for decades. Filled with new and entertaining stories of the people who have made IU Athletics legendary, Unknown, Untold, and Unbelievable Stories of IU Sports is a must-have for any fan. Discover behind-the-scenes stories of the Olympic Trials featuring Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin, and Steve Alford; the infamous 1997 black football jerseys; Ernie Pyle's outlandish automobile polo match to raise funds for the IU marching band; A. J. Moye's notorious block against Duke; the time Sam Bell won the bid for an NCAA track meet—without a facility or even bleachers; and many more incredible stories from the renowned IU Athletics program.

Author : Howard Liss
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 26,47 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780394856339

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A collection of 150 unusual occurrences in a dozen different sports.

Author : Paul D. Staudohar
Publisher : Lawrence Hill Books
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781556524844

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Presents a collection of short stories about sports from such authors as E. Annie Proulx, P.G. Wodehouse, Ellery Queen, Jeffrey Archer, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Author : Gary Smith
Publisher : Sports Illustrated
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 2008-09-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781603200240

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Presents twenty of the author's articles previously published in Sports Illustrated magazine, including reflections on the careers of Mia Hamm, Muhammad Ali, and Tiger Woods.

Author : Phyllis Hollander
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 12,93 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780590437363

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Describes unusual events from the history of sports such as baseball, football, boxing, basketball, and hockey.

Author : Curt Menefee
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 006244008X

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A refreshing and thought-provoking look at athletes whose legacies have been reduced to one defining moment of defeat—those on the flip side of an epic triumph—and what their experiences can teach us about competition, life, and the human spirit. Every sports fan recalls with amazing accuracy a pivotal winning moment involving a favorite team or player—Henry Aaron hitting his 715th home run to pass Babe Ruth; Christian Laettner’s famous buzzer beating shot in the NCAA tournament for Duke. Yet lost are the stories on the other side of these history-making moments, the athletes who experienced not transcendent glory but crushing disappointment: the cornerback who missed the tackle on the big touchdown; the relief pitcher who lost the series; the world-record holding Olympian who fell on the ice. In Losing Isn’t Everything, famed sportscaster Curt Menefee, joined by bestselling writer Michael Arkush, examines a range of signature "disappointments" from the wide world of sports, interviewing the subject at the heart of each loss and uncovering what it means—months, years, or decades later—to be associated with failure. While history is written by the victorious, Menefee argues that these moments when an athlete has fallen short are equally valuable to sports history, offering deep insights into the individuals who suffered them and about humanity itself. Telling the losing stories behind such famous moments as the Patriots’ Rodney Harrison guarding the Giants' David Tyree during the "Helmet Catch" in Super Bowl XLII, Mary Decker’s fall in the 1984 Olympic 1500m, and Craig Ehlo who gave up "The Shot" to Michael Jordan in the 1989 NBA playoffs, Menefee examines the legacy of the hardest loses, revealing the unique path that athletes have to walk after they lose on their sport’s biggest stage. Shedding new light some of the most accepted scapegoat stories in the sports cannon, he also revisits both the Baltimore Colts' loss to the Jets in Super Bowl III, as well as the Red Sox loss in the 1986 World Series, showing why, despite years of humiliation, it might not be all Bill Buckner's fault. Illustrated with sixteen pages of color photos, this considered and compassionate study offers invaluable lessons about pain, resilience, disappointment, remorse, and acceptance that can help us look at our lives and ourselves in a profound new way.

Author : Jim Platt
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 9781572434608

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Spanning more than a century of athletic achievement, this collection of memorabilia features photos of everything from uniforms and gear to autographs, artifacts, tickets, and programs, and stories of over 100 inspirational and immortal athletes, from Honus Wagner and Jack Johnson to Roberto Clemente and Muhammad Ali.

Author : Geeta Menon
Publisher : Children's Book Trust
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2006
Category :
ISBN : 9788189750053

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"Sport is an activity though indulged in for pleasure, teaches discipline and tolerance. The book inspires kids to play any game in the spirit of the game"--Provided by publisher.