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Sporting Goods: Nostalgia, Gender, and Revision in CBS’ “One Shining Moment”
Sporting Goods is an ongoing column that explores the place of sports within the discipline of media studies and everyday life. The NCAA Basketball Tournaments—March Madness, The Big Dance—have now...
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It’s the Euros, stupid!
As the European Football Championship have reached their halfway stage and moved from the group phase to the quarterfinals which Portugal opened with their victory over the Czech Republic on Thursday,...
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Sport in America: Our Defining Stories
The Sports Illustrated issue published immediately after the Penn State scandal’s eruption featured a short piece by SI Editor Terry McDonell entitled “Why We Talk About Sports.” “The dark side is...
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The Internet, Baseball Analysis, and the Persistence of Dogma
“Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.” –George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction Bill James did not invent the analytic study of baseball....
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Officially Defeated: On the Broader Significance of the NFL Referee Lockout
In the twenty-first century, the NFL’s product can no longer reasonably be separated from its mediated presentation via television. NFL telecasts routinely rate as the most-watched programs on US...
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ESPN and EA Sports’ NHL Season Simulation
The National Hockey League is currently rounding out the sixth week of a lockout—the league’s third labor stoppage since 1994. These disputes, of course, are not unusual in contemporary sports. Just...
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ESPN, Wimbledon, and the Limits of Broadcasting Equality
On Tuesday, ESPN debuted the first film in its Nine for IX series, focusing on women’s equality in the sports world. The first entry, Venus Vs., documents tennis player Venus Williams’ career and her...
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Conflicted Coverage: ESPN and Johnny Manziel
“What’s good for ESPN is good for the game” ~ Rece Davis College football kicked off this weekend, and it should come as no surprise that one of the biggest stories surrounded Johnny Manziel. The Texas...
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ESPN, Frontline, and the Bottom Line
Last Tuesday PBS Frontline premiered League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis, a damning investigation of the National Football League’s efforts to suppress and discredit mounting evidence that...
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