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    Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back: Dilemmas of the Modern Fan
    Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back: Dilemmas of the Modern Fan
    Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back: Dilemmas of the Modern Fan
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    Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back: Dilemmas of the Modern Fan

    Written by Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson

    Narrated by Machelle Williams

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    About this audiobook

    Triumphant wins, gut-wrenching losses, last-second shots, underdogs, competition, and loyalty-it's fun to be a fan. But when a football player takes a hit to the head after yet another study has warned of the dangers of CTE, or when a team whose mascot was born in an era of racism and bigotry takes the field, or when a relief pitcher accused of domestic violence saves the game, how is one to cheer? Welcome to the club for sports fans who care too much.

    In Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back, acclaimed sports writers Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson tackle the most pressing issues in sports, why they matter, and how we can do better. For the authors, "sticking to sports" is not an option-not when our taxes are paying for the stadiums, and college athletes aren't getting paid at all. But simply quitting a favorite team won't change corrupt and deplorable practices, and the root causes of many of these problems are endemic in our wider society. Essential for modern fans, Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back challenges the status quo and explores how we might begin to reconcile our conscience with our fandom.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 13, 2021
    ISBN9781705279229
    Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back: Dilemmas of the Modern Fan
    Author

    Jessica Luther

    JESSICA LUTHER is an independent writer and investigative journalist living in Austin, Texas. Her work on sports and culture has appeared in the Texas Observer and the Austin Chronicle, and at Sports Illustrated, Texas Monthly, Vice Sports, Guardian Sport, and Bleacher Report. Luther’s work gained national attention in August 2015 when writing for Texas Monthly; she and Dan Solomon broke open the story about a Baylor football player on trial for sexual assault, a case known by only a few in the community and not reported in the media for nearly two years. She is the author of Unsportsmanlike Conduct.

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      A fantastic insight, and a wonderful encapsulation of what it means to love sports when sports don’t love you back. This is everything I’ve felt as a sports fan, and a perfect insight into the feelings of others that I don’t often get. In good and less good ways, this book is a little outdated, and I’d love a coda from the authors exploring some of the ways we’ve seen sports grow and the instances they’ve fallen short recently. Still, this is essential reading for all sports fans. It’s just plain good information told brilliantly.