More than Cricket and Football: International Sport and the Challenge of Celebrity
Joel Nathan Rosen and Maureen M. Smith
Abstract
This collection takes a critical look at athletic celebrity on the part of athletes who enjoy worldwide reputations without necessarily breaking into the more narrowly defined North American sporting terrain. This volume, which chronicles the reputational arcs of athletes in such diverse sports as surfing, motocross, Grand Prix Racing, distance running, and even sumo wrestling, as well as more widespread competitions including tennis, cricket, and world football, to name but a few, are presented as a means to underscore the notion that sport, regardless of type and place, helps foster individu ... More
This collection takes a critical look at athletic celebrity on the part of athletes who enjoy worldwide reputations without necessarily breaking into the more narrowly defined North American sporting terrain. This volume, which chronicles the reputational arcs of athletes in such diverse sports as surfing, motocross, Grand Prix Racing, distance running, and even sumo wrestling, as well as more widespread competitions including tennis, cricket, and world football, to name but a few, are presented as a means to underscore the notion that sport, regardless of type and place, helps foster individual reputations that creates celebrities unique to those games.
Keywords:
Celebrity,
International sport,
Athleticism,
Reputation,
Competitors
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781496809889 |
| Published to University Press of Mississippi: January 2019 |
DOI:10.14325/mississippi/9781496809889.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Joel Nathan Rosen, editor
Moravian College
Maureen M. Smith, editor
Sacramento State University
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