Journal of Sports Media 14:1-2

Journal of Sports Media 14:1-2

Edited by Mary Lou Sheffer
Founding Editor, Brad Schultz

Table Of Contents

Volume 14, Numbers 1–2 (2019)

“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 and David Cassilo

Marketing in the Minors: Comparing Minor and Major League Baseball Teams’ Use of Facebook
Ryan Vooris and Rebbeca Achen

Gay Talese and Floyd Patterson: Constructing a Liminal Hero for an Ambivalent Age
Phillip J. Hutchison

Who Is to Blame? An Examination of American Sports Journalists’ Lance Armstrong Hero Narrative and Post–Doping Confession Paradigm Repair
Sada Reed

Gazing Through a Nationalized Tilt: The Summer Olympics as Validation of the National Connective Motives Scale
Kenon Brown, Andrew Billings, and Ziyuan Zhou

Queue the Drama: Netflix’s Last Chance U and the Portrayal of Myths in Sports Documentaries
Evan L. Frederick, Marion E. Hambrick, Sam Schmidt, and Megan Shreffler

Virtual Tailgating: A Q-Methodology Analysis of Why Sports Fans Visit Online Sports Forums
Kris Boyle, Jordan Mower, Tom Robinson, and Clark Callahan

The Impact of Presenting Physiological Data During Sporting Events on Audiences’ Entertainment
Ryan Rogers

Identification and Crisis: An Exploration Into the Influence of Sports Identification on Stakeholder Perceptions of Sports-Related Crisis
Jennifer Harker

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 and Matthew J. Cotton

Review
Last Chance U
Michelle Boettcher and Aris Hall