In this Issue

Table of Contents

“I’m Glad I Played When the Country Still Had Gonads”: Pop Warner’s Kickoff Policy Change and the Framing of Health and Safety Initiatives in Football

Jimmy Sanderson, David Cassilo
pp. 1-22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsm.2019.0002
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Marketing in the Minors: Comparing Minor and Major League Baseball Teams’ Use of Facebook

Ryan Vooris, Rebecca Achen
pp. 23-46
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsm.2019.0003
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Gay Talese and Floyd Patterson: Constructing a Liminal Hero for an Ambivalent Age

Phillip J. Hutchison
pp. 47-66
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsm.2019.0004
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Who Is to Blame? An Examination of American Sports Journalists’ Lance Armstrong Hero Narrative and Post–Doping Confession Paradigm Repair

Sada Reed
pp. 67-91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsm.2019.0000
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Gazing Through a Nationalized Tilt: The Summer Olympics as Validation of the National Connective Motives Scale

Kenon Brown, Andrew C. Billings, Ziyuan Zhou
pp. 93-112
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsm.2019.0005
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Queue the Drama: Netflix’s Last Chance U and the Portrayal of Myths in Sports Documentaries

Evan L. Frederick, Marion E. Hambrick, Sam Schmidt, Megan Shreffler
pp. 113-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsm.2019.0006
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Virtual Tailgating: A Q-Methodology Analysis of Why Sports Fans Visit Online Sports Forums

Kris Boyle, Jordan Mower, Tom Robinson, Clark Callahan
pp. 137-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsm.2019.0007
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The Impact of Presenting Physiological Data During Sporting Events on Audiences’ Entertainment

Ryan Rogers
pp. 155-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsm.2019.0008
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Identification and Crisis: An Exploration Into the Influence of Sports Identification on Stakeholder Perceptions of Sports-Related Crisis

Jennifer Harker
pp. 171-199
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsm.2019.0001
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Better Than Steph Curry and More Profitable Than LeBron James: An Analysis of LaVar Ball’s Agenda Building of the Ball Brothers

Melvin L. Williams, Matthew J. Cotton
pp. 201-232
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsm.2019.0009
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Review

Last Chance U

Michelle Boettcher, Aris Hall
pp. 233-237
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsm.2019.0010
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"Better Than Steph Curry and More Profitable Than LeBron James: An Analysis of LaVar Ball's Agenda Building of the Ball Brothers" has been selected as the 2020 Outstanding Scholarly Article by the African-American Communication and Culture Divis