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[7.7k.1] Hoop Dreams, a documentary about two African-American high school basketball stars, portrays the ways in which these students’ lives are shaped by these various systems.
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[7.7k.2] Media Awareness Network lesson: Violence in sports
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[7.7k.3] Education Media Foundation: Playing Unfair: The Media Image of the Female Athlete
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[7.7k.4] Media Awareness Network lesson: Media Coverage of Women and Women's Issues
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[7.7k.5] Women’s Sports Foundation: lots on links on coverage of women in sports
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[7.7k.6] Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport
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[7.7k.7] Game Face: What Does the Female Athlete Look Like?
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[7.7k.8] FemmeFan: for female sports fans
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[7.7k.9] Zine: Girl Jocks Rule
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[7.7k.10] Lesson: history of media coverage of women in sports
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One of the important subgenres of television sports is professional wrestling, a popular television genre, particularly for adolescent males, who often make their own backyard video versions that mimic the show:
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[7.7k.11] World Wrestling Entertainment
[7.7k.12] National Wrestling Alliance
[7.7k.13] ProWrestling.Com
[7.7k.13a] Media Education Foundation: Wrestling with Manhood: Boys, Bullying & Battering
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Another subgenre is the “outdoors” television show related to providing useful information about hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, and gardening:
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[7.7k.14] dmoz.org: Recreation: Outdoors
[7.7k.15] Yahoo.com: Television Shows: Sports
[7.7k.16] Yahoo.com: Television Shows: Outdoors
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And, a subgenre that supports the sports industry is the largely (but not exclusively) male sports talk show. While it draws on the daytime talk show format, it differs from the often-therapeutic discourses of these shows by avoiding personal matters and focusing on sharing sports information or ”stats":
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[7.7k.17] HBO's On The Record
[7.7k.18] The Tim McCarver Show
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[7.7k.21] The New York Times Learning Network: Clayton DeKorne, Getting In the Game Exploring Interactive Relationships Between Television Shows and the Internet
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[7.7k.22] The New York Times Learning Network: Abby Remer and Alison Zimbalist, Kicking It Around Evaluating Perspectives on Women's World Cup Soccer: A Language Arts Lesson.
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[7.7k.23] Webquest: Extreme Sports
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[7.7k.25] Sports blogs |
[7.7k.26] Sports blogs |
[7.7k.27] Badjocks.com |
[7.7k.27] Off Wing Opinion |
[7.7k.27] Fanblogs.com |
For further reading: |
Andrews, D. L. (2006). Sport—commerce—culture: Essays on sport in late capitalist America. New York: Peter Lang. |
Baker, A., & Boyd, T. (Eds.). (1998). Out of bounds: Sports, media, and the politics of identity. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. |
Creedon, P. (Ed.). (1994). Women, media and sport: Challenging gender values. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. |
Gratton, C., & Solberg, H. (2006). The economics of sports broadcasting. New York: Routledge. |
Kusz, K. (2006). Reality bites: White masculinities, sport, and contemporary American culture. New York: Peter Lang. |
Raney, A. A., & Bryant, J. (Eds.). (2006). Handbook of sports and media. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. |
Rowe, D., & Rowen, D. (1999). Sport, culture and the media: The unruly trinity. London: Open University Press. |
Schultz, B. (2005). Sports media: Reporting, producing, and planning. New York: Focal Press. |
Smith, R. (2001). Play-by-play: Radio, television, and big-time college sports. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. |
Sperber, G. (2001). Beer and circus: How big-time college sports is crippling undergraduate education. New York: Owl Books. |
Wenner, L. (Ed.). (1998). Mediasport. New York: Routledge. |
Whannel, G. (2001). Media sport stars: Masculinities and moralities. New York: Routledge. |
White. G. E. (1998). Creating the national pastime. Princeton: Princeton University Press. |
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