Acclaimed sports writers Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson explore what it means to be a fan, even as ethical concerns--from doping to domestic violence--complicate the games we love
Acclaimed sports writers Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson explore what it means to be a fan, even as ethical concerns--from doping to domestic violence--complicate the games we love
Jessica Luther is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, Texas Monthly , Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, and Vice Sports, among others. She is the author of Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape and has written extensively on the intersection of sports and violence off the field. Kavitha A. Davidson is a sportswriter and host of The Lead, an in-depth daily sports news podcast produced by The Athletic. She is on the board of directors at the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center. She was a writer with ESPNW and ESPN The Magazine and a sports columnist at Bloomberg covering the intersections of sports and society, culture, politics, race, gender, and business. Her work has also appeared in NBC THINK, the Guardian, and Rolling Stone.
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Introduction 1. Watching Football When We Know (Even a Little) about Brain Trauma 2. Forgiving the Doper You Love 3. Cheering for a Team with a Racist Mascot 4. Embracing Tennis despite Its Inequities 5. Coping When the Sports You Love Are Anti-LGBTQ+ 6. Watching Women’s Basketball When People Tell You You’re the Only One 7. Consuming Sports Media . . . Even If You Don’t Look Like the People on TV 8. Rooting for Your Team When the Star Is Accused of Domestic Violence 9. Loving Your Team When You Hate the Owner 10. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Baseball’s Free Market 11. Doubling Down on Your March Madness Bracket Even If the Athletes Don’t Make a Dime 12. Living with the New Stadium You Didn’t Want to Pay For 13. Enjoying the Olympics Despite the Harm to Your Community 14. Embracing That Athletes—and Sports—Are Political Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
Introduction 1. Watching Football When We Know (Even a Little) about Brain Trauma 2. Forgiving the Doper You Love 3. Cheering for a Team with a Racist Mascot 4. Embracing Tennis despite Its Inequities 5. Coping When the Sports You Love Are Anti-LGBTQ+ 6. Watching Women’s Basketball When People Tell You You’re the Only One 7. Consuming Sports Media . . . Even If You Don’t Look Like the People on TV 8. Rooting for Your Team When the Star Is Accused of Domestic Violence 9. Loving Your Team When You Hate the Owner 10. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Baseball’s Free Market 11. Doubling Down on Your March Madness Bracket Even If the Athletes Don’t Make a Dime 12. Living with the New Stadium You Didn’t Want to Pay For 13. Enjoying the Olympics Despite the Harm to Your Community 14. Embracing That Athletes—and Sports—Are Political Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
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