Cover
Title
Copyright
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I: Framing Fallen Sports Celebrity
Chapter 1: The Fallen Sports Hero in the Age of Mediated Celebrityhood (Lawrence A. Wenner)
Chapter 2: Exposing Celebrity Sports (Toby Miller)
Chapter 3: Athletic Heroic Acts and Living on the Moral Edge (William J. Morgan)
Chapter 4: From Coverage to Recovery: Mediating the Fallen Sports Celebrity (Bryan E. Denham)
Part II: Fallen Individual Sports Celebrity
Chapter 5: Tiger Woods Lands in the Rough: Golf, Apologia, and the Heroic Limits of Privacy (Andrew C. Billings)
Chapter 6: Andre Agassi and the Tides of Tennis Celebrity: Image, Reconstruction, and Confession (C. Lee Harrington and Kimberly S. Schimmel)
Chapter 7: On Track, off Track, on Oprah: The Framing of Marion Jones as Golden Girl and American Fraud (Lindsey J. Meân)
Chapter 8: The Ups and Downs of Skating Vertical: Christian Hosoi, Crystal Meth, and Christianity (Becky Beal)
Chapter 9: Wrestling with Extremes: Steroids, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Chris Benoit (James L. Cherney and Kurt Lindemann)
Chapter 10: Bad Landing: Charting the Gold and Criminal Records of Finnish Ski Jumper, Matti Nykänen (Pirkko Markula and Zoe Avner)
Chapter 11: Traitor on High Seas: Russell Coutts, Kiwi Loyalty, and Opportunism in International Yachting (Alistair John, Toni Bruce, and Steven J. Jackson)
Chapter 12: Running Down What Comes Naturally: Gender Verification and South Africa’s Caster Semenya (Cheryl Cooky and Shari L. Dworkin)
Part III: Fallen Team Sports Celebrity
Chapter 13: Dog Bites Man? The Criminalization and Rehabilitation of Michael Vick (Michael D. Giardina and Mar Magnusen)
Chapter 14: Guns Are No Joke: Framing Plaxico Burress, Gilbert Arenas, and Gunplay in Professional Sports (Katherine L. Lavelle)
Chapter 15: Interrogating Discourses About the WNBA’s “Bad Girls”: Intersectionality and the Politics of Representation (Mary G. McDonald and Cheryl Cooky)
Chapter 16: Liquid Beckham: Inoculating a Star Against Falls from Grace (Oliver Rick, Michael L. Silk, David L. Andrews)
Chapter 17: No Gagging Matter: John Terry Plays Centre Back from Dad of the Year to (Alleged) Debauchery (Bill Grantham)
Chapter 18: “Wayne’s World”: Media Narratives of Downfall and Redemption About Australian Football “King,” Wayne Carey (Jim McKay and Karen Brooks)
Chapter 19: Spinning Out of Control: Harbhajan Singh, Postcolonial Cricket Celebrity, and the “Revenge Narrative” (David Rowe)
Part IV: Fallen Sideline Sports Celebrity
Chapter 20: The “Bully” and the “Girl Who Did What She Did”: Neo-Homophobia in Coverage of Two Women’s College Basketball Coaches (Marie Hardin and Nicole M. LaVoi)
Chapter 21: Coaches Gone Wild: Media, Masculinity, and Morality in Big-Time College Football (Michael L. Butterworth)
Chapter 22: Faking It: Dean Richards, Rugby Union, and Harlequins at the Bloodgate (Kevin Young and Michael Atkinson)
Chapter 23: Who’s Sorry Now? Sportscasters Falling from Grace, Saving Face (Heather L. Hundley)
Chapter 24: Don Cherry and the Cultural Politics of Rock’em Sock’em Nationalism: Complicating the Hero-Villain Binary in Canada (Jay Scherer and Lisa McDermott)
Part V: Afterword
Chapter 25: Beyond the Failed Sports Hero: Where We All Fall Down (Scott Tinley)
Contributors
Index