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ESPN, Frontline, and the Bottom Line

October 16, 2013
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ESPN, Frontline, and the Bottom Line

ESPN's decision to distance itself from League of Denial suggest conflict between priding itself for probing sport’s cultural meanings while keeping the world’s wealthiest sports organizations in business.
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ESPN and EA Sports’ NHL Season Simulation

November 16, 2012
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ESPN and EA Sports’ NHL Season Simulation

While the lockout prohibits NHL players from lacing up for their teams, it has not prevented video game behemoth EA Sports from promoting its annual National Hockey League game.
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Sport in America: Our Defining Stories

June 29, 2012
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Sport in America: Our Defining Stories

While productions like Sport in America champion sport's cultural import, they tend to obscure the conditions that facilitate and restrict sport's apparent capacity to define us.
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Sporting Goods: Nostalgia, Gender, and Revision in CBS’ “One Shining Moment”

March 21, 2012
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Sporting Goods: Nostalgia, Gender, and Revision in CBS’ “One Shining Moment”

“One Shining Moment’s” recent revisions suggest that the mythic meaning the highlight attaches to the men's tournament is contingent upon the stability of the gendered television viewing experience it constructs.
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