TY - BOOK AU - Abrams,Doug AU - Coakley,Jay AU - Cooky,Cheryl AU - Dionigi,Rylee AU - Harrison,Keith AU - Hattery,Angela J. AU - Katz,Jackson AU - King,C.Richard AU - Prettyman,Sandra Spickard AU - Lampman,Brian TI - Learning Culture through Sports: Perspectives on Society and Organized Sports SN - 9781442206328 AV - GV706.5 -- .L43 2010eb U1 - 796.01 PY - 2010/// CY - Lanham, MD PB - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers KW - Sports - Social aspects - United States KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 -- Sport Specialization and Its Effects -- 2 -- The Power of a Coach -- 3 -- Achieving Equal Opportunity in Youth Sports -- 4 -- Jocks Rule-Girls Drool -- 5 -- The Frontrunner Failed to Land a Knockout Punch -- 6 -- The Rutgers Women's Basketball Team Talks Back -- 7 -- Come Out and Play -- 8 -- Title IX Literacy -- 9 -- Sincere Fictions of Whiteness in New Millennium American Sport Films -- 10 -- Reporting in Black and White -- 11 -- Duke Lacrosse -- 12 -- Asian Americans in Unexpected Places -- 13 -- Katrina's Tragic Wake and a Saintly Rescue -- 14 -- Sports and Economics -- 15 -- Do Girls Rule? -- 16 -- British National Female Coaches on Coaching -- 17 -- Oscar Pistorius, the Paralympics, and Issues of Fair Competition -- 18 -- Strong Women, Fragile Closets -- 19 -- Older Athletes -- Conclusion -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors N2 - Like the first edition, this second edition of Learning Culture Through Sports provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical venue by which to examine contemporary issues and controversies surrounding sport. This new edition includes a more global perspective, drawing upon recent issues in the world of sports in order to better understand how sport influences contemporary American society, both positively and negatively UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/buse-ebooks/detail.action?docID=662251 ER -