INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. INTRODUCTION 1
4. CHAPTER 1 Watching Football When We Know (Even a Little) about Brain Trauma 9
5. CHAPTER 2 Forgiving the Doper You Love 25
6. CHAPTER 3 Cheering for a Team with a Racist Mascot 47
7. CHAPTER 4 Embracing Tennis despite Its Inequities 65
8. CHAPTER 5 Coping When the Sports You Love Are Anti-LGBTQ+ 83
9. CHAPTER 6 Watching Women’s Basketball When People Tell You You’re the Only One 101
10. CHAPTER 7 Consuming Sports Media . . . Even If You Don’t Look Like the People on TV 117
11. CHAPTER 8 Rooting for Your Team When the Star Is Accused of Domestic Violence 143
12. CHAPTER 9 Loving Your Team When You Hate the Owner 157
13. CHAPTER 10 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Baseball’s Free Market 185
14. CHAPTER 11 Doubling Down on Your March Madness Bracket Even If the Athletes Don’t Make a Dime 195
15. CHAPTER 12 Living with the New Stadium You Didn’t Want to Pay For 209
16. CHAPTER 13 Enjoying the Olympics Despite the Harm to Your Community 227
17. CHAPTER 14 Embracing That Athletes—and Sports—Are Political 245
18. CONCLUSION 263
19. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 271
20. NOTES 273
21. INDEX 314