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Sports and their fans
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Kevin G. Quinn |
"Exploring such topics as the role of sports in the creation of mass culture, cheating, the abuse of illegal drugs, the strange and fascinating role that numbers play in sporting events, and the futu… |
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Against football
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Steve Almond |
Argues that not only is American football hazardous to players' health, and especially to their brains, but also that American support of the sport encourages violence, prejudices, and other ethicall… |
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Hooligans Are Still among Us
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Michael Layton,Bill Rogerson |
1 volume ; 24 cm |
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Festival Fever
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Anne Holland |
1 online resource (215 pages) |
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Seattle seahawks super season
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Mark Tye Turner |
"Relive the Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl Season through the eyes of the 12th Man. From the perspective of a dedicated Seahawks fan, Mark Tye Turner, author of Notes from a 12 Man, compiles this vivi… |
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Fanatics
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Adam Brown |
While football has never been more popular, the rapidly-changing cultures of its supporters take an ever greater variety of forms, from the New Lad culture which produced Three Lions and Fantasy Foot… |
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Consuming sport
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Garry Crawford |
Consuming Sport is the first book to explicitly and comprehensively address how sport is experienced and engaged with in the everyday lives, social networks and consumer patterns of its followers, th… |
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If Football's a Religion, Why Don't We Have a Prayer?
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Jere Longman |
The last time a Philadelphia professional sports team won a championship, Ronald Reagan was in the White House and Return of the Jedi was number one at the box office. No city with all four major spo… |
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God Save the Fan
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Will Leitch |
ESPN thinks its viewers are stupid. The Olympics claw at your inner sap. Barbaro, after all, was just a horse. So says Will Leitch, founding editor of Deadspin.com, whose God Save the Fan is your new… |
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Union Jock
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Aidan Smith |
Can a Scotsman ever support the Auld Enemy? Find out in Aidan Smith's brilliantly funny new history of a centuries-old rivalry.July 30, 1966. Bobby Moore is lifting the Jules Rimet trophy, Denis Law … |
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Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer
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Warren St. John |
Author's first person account of events occuring during a season of Alabama football focusing on travel, game day tailgating, and post-game celebrations or mourning. Focuses on the fans of the tea… |
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