Sports and Politics: Commodification, Capitalist Exploitation, and Political Agency

Contents
1 Sports, Politics, and Capitalism or: The Immoral Corruption of a Human Pleasure
Section I: Sports, Politics, and Corruption
2 Politics, Corruption, and Urban Sport in Chicago Racing: The Paul Powell Shoebox Scandal and the Bribery of Otto Kerner
3 The Great Australian ‘Sting’: How and Why Melbourne Became the World’s Sporting Capital
Section II: Sports, Politics, and Racism
4 In the Land of Dreamy Dreams: Tennis and the Nexus of Class and Race in New Orleans, 1876–1976
5 “Change Starts with Us”: The Issue of Media Representation of Athletes’ Activism for Black Lives
6 The Revival of Athlete Activism(s): Divergent Black Politics in the 2016 Presidential Election Engagements of LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick
Section III: Sports, Politics, Sexual Abuse and Homophobia
7 #MeToo, Larry Nassar, and Sexual Abuse in Youth Sports
8 Hegemonic Masculinities and the Fear of Being Gay in the NHL
Contributors
Index