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  The Fist Is Mightier Than The Apology Video

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  Andy Fischer Wright University of Texas at Austin

  January 07, 2019

  micro-celebrity practices combined with athletics as a false path to moral redemption is now a possibility on the ...
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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 ...
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  "It's in the Game"

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  Thomas Oates Northern Illinois University

  January 21, 2009

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  "It's in the Game" race gender sports Curator's Note This advertisement for the video game NBA Live 2006 is one example of an increasingly prevalent fantasy on offer in a variety of forms in contemporary media culture.  It invites fans ...