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More than Cricket and Football - International Sport and the Challenge of Celebrity (Paperback)
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More than Cricket and Football - International Sport and the Challenge of Celebrity (Paperback)
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Contributions by Lisa Doris Alexander, Sean Bell, Benn L. Bongang,
Joel S. Franks, Silvana Vilodre Goellner, Annette R. Hofmann, Dong
Jinxia, Claudia Samuel Kessler, Jack Lule, Li Luyang, Mark Panek,
Roberta J. Park, Gamage Harsha Perera, Joel Nathan Rosen, Viral
Shah, Maureen M. Smith, Nancy E. Spencer, Dominic Standish, Tim B.
Swartz, Dan Travis, Theresa Walton-Fisette, and Zhong Yijing Given
the presumed dominance of American sport, many fans throughout the
hemisphere find it difficult to envision the role of sport beyond
the confines of their own continent. And yet, world sport consists
of so much more than the games Americans play and so much more than
the stereotype of cricket for the elite and football for the
working class. As worldwide sport continues to gain in popularity,
we also see parallels to many aspects visible in North American
sport, particularly celebrity and all its trappings and pitfalls.
The success of athletes from other countries in basketball and ice
hockey, and the proliferation of stars imported and now exported to
and from North America, provides some better examples of sport's
international power. It also creates a very new kind of sport
celebrity, albeit one that often shows a rather limited reach
beyond that star's own country or continent. Thus, rather than
focusing on the Western Hemisphere, this collection of some of
world sport's most heralded celebrities (including stars of
Motocross, surfing, distance running, and more) serves as a sort of
passport to many places that make up our global sporting
environment.
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