...Why is it that so many Americans are passionate about team sports? The soaring popularity of sports radio in recent decades together with sports cable networks suggests that devotion to sports has far eclipsed traditional allegiance to religion. The introduction provides an overview of the origins...

...This chapter focuses on the lessons taught to us by sports injury research—some of them obvious, some not. We know that two-thirds of all injuries in soccer occur to the ankle, knee, head, leg, or foot. Research has also shown us interesting things about the rate of injury in players with prior...

...After World War II, as the subspecialties of injury prevention and sports medicine developed, doctors and coaches sought to establish their authority on matters of youth football safety. The framing of football safety knowledge was gendered. Not only were sports doctors and coaches almost...

...This chapter explores the development of sports capitalism in the transpacific cultural zone and probes the actions and motivations of various historical agents who promoted or resisted it. It pays particular attention to American semipro and professional baseball squads' venturing out of the U.S...

...What southerners do, where they go, and what they expect to accomplish in their spare time, their “leisure,” reveals much about their cultural values, class and racial similarities and differences, and historical perspectives. This book offers a reference to the culture of sports and recreation...

... one of the most durable black sporting organizations in American history as they fought to join the white Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA). From George F. Grant’s invention of the golf tee in 1899, to the dominance of superstar Tiger Woods in the 1990s, this accessible and comprehensive work...

...Randall Balmer was a late convert to sports talk radio, but he quickly became addicted, just like millions of other devoted American sports fans. As a historian of religion, the more he listened, Balmer couldn't help but wonder how the fervor he heard related to religious practice. Houses...

...A brief epilogue discusses the Daily Tar Heel’s move off campus, issues over recent decades including the athletic/sports scandal, and ponders the future of print journalism and the student newspaper in the digital age. Business model of Daily Tar Heel Daily Tar Heel Digital information age DTH...

... Land use planning Historic preservation Civil rights Gentrification Sports and Recreation facilities planning If the historical development of Lincoln Park during the first half of the twentieth century illustrated the public sector’s power to provide high-quality services and facilities...

... the next penalty shot to win the match for the United States 5-4. Overcome with emotion and emulating the universal gesture of jubilant male soccer players, she dropped to her knees and tore off her jersey, revealing an incredibly ripped body and a black Nike sports bra. That iconic image came to symbolize...

... and political groups beyond the campus environment. Corporate support for Pride events and corporate benefits for lesbian and gay employees altered the climate for queer life in each city. The arrival of national sports teams in Charlotte resulted in new social spaces for lesbians, while the presence...

... and free speech issues emerged after a visit to Chapel Hill from Black poet Langston Hughes, while Graham’s sympathy for organized labor got him into hot water with the state’s business leaders. Finally, Graham’s support for reforming college sports made him unpopular among sports fans who were UNC alumni...

... space planning Cultural development Sports and recreation planning Black business development history Jewish history U.S. South American blues history Labor organizing The 1858 opening of the Union Passenger Station at the intersection of Ninth and Broad Streets had a profound impact...

...This chapter argues that Billie Jean King was the right feminist in the right sport at the right moment in American history. What she proved that night in a courageous performance of physical prowess and nerves of steel was that women did not choke, women were not frail and weak, women could face...

..., women-Sports, television commentary with ABC and time off.” Reflecting on her options, she said, “It's really great that the sport has produced enough to allow me . . . this choice. I wish this was true for everyone.” ABC Battle of the Sexes —broadcasting career of —and importance...

...This chapter focuses on the time when Billie Jean King alerted readers of women-Sports to be on the lookout for “the largest gathering of tomboys and ex-tomboys in recent history.” She wasn't referring to a sporting event or pre-Olympic competition, but to the National Women's...

...The epilogue explores the broad changes brought on by integration and the role of television to show how the structural deficiencies of HBCU football undermined competition. The human resources that made up the sporting congregation eroded under the weight and possibilities of integration. FAMU...

... understandings of the sport’s health effects but also the social and cultural attitudes that shaped those understandings. With its focus on safety debates, No Game for Boys to Play provides a bridge between sports history and public health history, examines the values and beliefs animating...

...Whether a child’s death or injury associated with playing football could in fact be attributed to football was a crucial question in evaluating the sport’s risks. On a technical level, doctors debated such issues as whether heat strokes that athletes suffered while playing in hot weather...

...This chapter foregrounds Asian-American-led activism against a major Seattle sports arena, the Kingdome during the early 1970s. In doing so, this chapter examines how Asian American activists, including cannery worker organizers stationed in Alaska and Seattle, spearheaded multiracial coalitions...