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