
More than Cricket and FootballInternational Sport and the Challenge of Celebrity
Joel Nathan Rosen and Maureen M. Smith
Print publication date: 2019
ISBN: 9781496809889
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
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 individual reputations that creates celebrities unique to those games.