Stories of sports: critical literacy in media production, consumption, and dissemination/ edited by Katherin Garland, Katie Shepherd Dredger, Crystal L. Beach and Cathy Leogrande.

Includes bibliographical references and index."This book centralizes media, sports, and athlete identity while providing an in-depth evaluation of the role that media play in how society views and discusses sports and athletes, highlighting several types of intertextuality and intersectionality while doing so"--Foreword / Andraya N. Carter -- Using critical media literacy pedagogy to analyze Colin Kaepernick's athletic activism / Katherin Garland -- Selling patriotism on and off the field : media connections between baseball, the military, and the government / Brian Sheehy -- Relationships between youth-sports coaches and athletes : messages from the "best" sports-related films / Luke Rodesiler, Mark A. Lewis, and Alan Brown -- Truth be told : the mutual responsibilities of artists and consumers / Mark A. Fabrizi -- Telling the story of youth, sports, and disability in Friday Night Lights / Ewa McGrail, J. Patrick McGrail, and Alicja Rieger -- Transforming diabetes stigma : the role of counternarrative in sports media / Cynthia Martin -- Languaging actions in sports media and students' writing about sports / Richard Beach and Limarys Caraballo -- Performance, style, and substance : the female athlete / Crystal L. Beach and Katie Dredger -- Booth, sidelines or studio : how place defines women sports broadcasters on television / Cathy Leogrande.1 online resource (xi, 223 pages)