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  30 for 30 and ESPN’s Quest for Cultural Consecration

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  Travis Vogan Indiana University

  July 09, 2010

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  omnipresence in contemporary popular culture, there is one thing that ESPN is not, or at least was not until ... but they do not enrich, or at least are not commonly understood to perform this function. ESPN has ... the sound of a projector. The trailer, or at least these components of the trailer, positions ESPN as ...
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  The augmented live experience: Google Glass in the stadium

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  Markus Stauff Media Studies, University Amsterdam (UvA)

  May 01, 2015

  place. Not least because of these multiplied media, sports has become one of the quintessential examples ...
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  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  February 27, 2008

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  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be 1950s amateurs Baseball branding discourse documentaries fandom Ken Burns Madiso Mallards marketing pro-am promos regionalism sports Curator's Note Inning Seven of Ken Burns’ “Baseball” argues that major socioe ...
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  Legitimizing the Feminine?: Regulation and the Politics of Cheerleading Injuries

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  Bryce McNeil Georgia State University

  May 23, 2011

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  Legitimizing the Feminine?: Regulation and the Politics of Cheerleading Injuries Sports Injuries sports regulation femininity concussions Curator's Note Just as male athletes have gotten bigger, cheerleading maneuvers have gotten increasingly acrobat ...
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  "Who Makes These Kinds of Things?" Dynamics of Power in Madden NFL

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  Elysia Galindo-Ramirez Bellisario College of Communications, Penn State

  March 25, 2017

  3 comments

  "Who Makes These Kinds of Things?" Dynamics of Power in Madden NFL Sports Video Games sports Madden NFL Football Curator's Note   Madden NFL is currently one of the most successful sport video game series on the market, with new games relea ...
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  100 Years Later: Race and "The Fight of the Century"

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  Roopika Risam Emory University

  July 05, 2010

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  100 Years Later: Race and "The Fight of the Century" sports race Jack Johnson boxing Curator's Note One hundred years ago, on July 4, 1910, boxers Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries undertook "The Fight of the Century." While other mat ...