Includes bibliographical references and index.

Public dollars, private stadiums, and democracy / Kevin J. Delaney and Rick Eckstein -- May the best team win : making baseball competitive / Andrew Zimbalist -- Rooting the home team : why the Packers won't leave and why the Browns did / David Morris and Daniel Kraker -- America's fast growing sport / Brian O'Keefe and Julie Schlosser -- Building a mini metropolis known as the U.S. Open / Bill Pennington -- Money, myth and the big match : the political economy of the sports media / David Rowe -- Losing control of the ball : the political economy of football and the media in Australia / Murray Phillips and Brett Hutchins -- The global sport mass media oligopoly : the three usual suspects and more / Alan Law, Jean Harvey, and Stuart Kemp -- Football, television, and the Supreme Court : how a decision 20 years ago brought commercialization to the world of college sports / Welch Suggs -- Marketers are joining the varsity / Stuart Elliott -- Who's playing college sports? Trends in participation / John Cheslock -- The game of life : taking stock / James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen -- Race, cultural capital, and the educational effects of participation in sports / Tamela McNulty Eitle and David Eitle -- High school football : deep in the heart of South Tejas / Douglas Foley -- Odd jobs help college teams stay afloat / Teddy Kider -- Where are the jocks for justice? / Kelly Candale and Peter Dreier -- Sport, masculinity, and Black cultural resistance / Ben Carrington -- Televised sport, masculinist moral capital, and support for the invasion of Iraq / Carl Stempel -- Gay games or gay olympics? Implications for lesbian inclusion / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj -- Argentina's left-wingers / Leslie Ray -- Carlos Delgado stands up to war / Dave Zirin -- Emotionality in the stands and in the field : expressing self through baseball / Nick Trujillo and Bob Krizek -- Joe Louis uncovers dynamite / Richard Wright -- Supporters, followers, fans, and fl�aneurs : a taxonomy of spectator identities in football / Richard Giulianotti -- Something about baseball : gentrification, race sponsorship, and competing class cultures in neighborhood boys' baseball / Sherri Grasmuck -- Hardball ain't the only game in Brooklyn anymore / Lee Jenkins and Michael Schmidt -- Making sense of muscle : the body experiences of collegiate women athletes / Molly George -- Managing bodily capital / Lo�ic Wacquant -- Hindu nationalism, cultural spaces, and bodily practices in India / Ian McDonald -- Athletes embrace size, rejecting stereotypes / Jer�e Longman -- Male athletes, injuries, and violence / Michael A. Messner -- The structure of sport and participant violence / John Schneider and D. Stanley Eitzen -- On-field player violence / Randall Collins -- Backtalk : violence, redemption and the cost of sports / Robert Lipsyte.