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The Silly, Strange, and Absurd Nature of Sport: An Analysis of Sports Illustrated’s “Sign of the Apocalypse”

Jeffrey W. Kassing, Cortney Solheim
pp. 1-29
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsm.2015.0000
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The Relationship of Fans’ Sports-Team Identification and Facebook Usage to Purchase of Team Products

Caitlin Moyer, Jim Pokrywczynski, Robert J. Griffin
pp. 31-49
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsm.2015.0001
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Craving the Scoop: An Examination of Highly Identified Fans’ Utilization of Subscription-Based College-Recruiting Networks

Michael Mudrick, Joshua Lupinek
pp. 51-77
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsm.2015.0002
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Using the Rhetoric of Atonement to Analyze Lance Armstrong’s Failed Attempt at Redeeming His Public Image

Steven R. Thomsen, Harper Anderson
pp. 79-99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsm.2015.0003
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Everyone Loves a Winner?: Relationships between Olympic Success and Nationalism within a Six-Nation Composite

Andrew C. Billings, Kenon A. Brown, Natalie Brown-Devlin
pp. 101-118
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsm.2015.0004
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From Bad Buck to White Hope: Journalism and Sonny Liston, 1958–1965

Phillip J. Hutchison
pp. 119-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsm.2015.0005
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