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Abreu, Christina D. \u201cThe Story of Benny \u2018Kid\u2019 Paret: Cuban Boxers, the Cuban Revolution, and the U.S. Media, 1959-1962.\u201d\u00a0Journal of Sport History<\/em>\u00a038, no. 1 (2011): 95\u2013113.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adelman, Melvin L.\u00a0\u00a0A Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-1870<\/em>.\u00a0 Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson, William B. \u201cSports Page Boosterism: Atlanta and Its Newspapers Accomplish the Unprecedented.\u201d American Journalism<\/em>  17, no. 3 (2000): 89\u2013107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson, William B.  “Does the Cheerleading Ever Stop?: Major League Baseball and Sports Journalism.”  Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly<\/em> 78 (Summer 2001): 339-366.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bales, Jack. \u201cIt Was His Fairness That Caught Wrigley\u2019s Eye: William L. Veeck\u2019s Journalism Career and His Hiring by the Chicago Cubs.\u201d NINE: A Journal of Baseball and Culture <\/em>20:2 (Spring 2012): 1-14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barber, Red.  The Broadcasters<\/em>.  New York: DaCapo, 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Battema, Douglas Lee. \u201cGoing for the Gold: A History of the Olympic Games and United States Television, 1956-1988.\u201d PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bellamy, Robert V., and James R. Walker.  \u201cBaseball and Television Origins: The Case of the Cubs.\u201d NINE<\/em> 10:1 (Fall 2001): 31-45.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berkman, Dave.  “Long Before Arledge:  Sports and Television, The Earliest Years- 1937-1947- as Seen by the Contemporary Press.”  Journal of Popular Culture<\/em> 22 (Fall 1988): 49-62.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Betts, John R.  “Sporting Journalism in Nineteenth Century America.”  American Quarterly<\/em> 5 (Spring 1953).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bleske, Glen, and Chris Lamb.  “Democracy on the Field: The Black Press Takes on White Baseball.”  Journalism History<\/em> 24:2 (Summer 1998): 51-59.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloom, John.  There You Have It: The Life, Legacy, and Legend of Howard Cosell.<\/em> Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bohn, Michael K.   Heroes and Ballyhoo: How the Golden Age of the 1920s Transformed American Sports<\/em>. Dulles: Potomac, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bowden, Mark.  The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL<\/em>.  Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bunk, Brian D.  \u201cHarry Wills and the Image of the Black Boxer from Jack Johnson to Joe Louis.\u201d Journal of Sport History<\/em> 39:1 (Spring 2012): 63-80.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cahan, Richard.  \u201cChampions: Sports and the Chicago Daily News<\/em>.\u201d Chicago History<\/em> 31 (Spring 2003): 20\u201341.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carhalho, John.  \u201cThe Banning of Bill Tilden: Amateur Tennis and Professional Journalism in Jazz-Age America.\u201d  Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly<\/em> 84:1 (Spring 2007): 122-136.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carroll, Brian. “From Fraternity to Fracture:  Black Press Coverage of and Involvement in Negro League Baseball in the 1920s.” American Journalism<\/em> 23:2 (Spring 2006): 69-95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carroll, Brian. \u201cNorth vs. South: Chicago Defender<\/em> Coverage of the Integration of Professional Baseball in the City.\u201d Journalism History<\/em> 33:3 (Fall 2007): 163-172.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carroll, Brian.  \u201cThis is IT: The PR Campaign by Wendell Smith and Jackie Robinson.\u201d Journalism History<\/em> 37: 3 (Fall 2011): 151-162.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carroll, Brian.  When to Stop Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community, and the Integration of Professional Baseball<\/em>.  New York: Routledge, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carvalho, John.  \u201cBad Times But Still Swingin’: World Series Coverage Before and During the Depression.”  NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture<\/em> 13:1 (Fall 2004): 81-93.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carvalho, John.  \u201cHaunted by the Babe: Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick\u2019s Columns about Babe Ruth.\u201d  American Journalism<\/em> 25:4 (Fall 2008): 65-82.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carvalho, John, and Nicholas Kirby.  \u201cLooking Bad on Paper, Worse on Film: Portrayals of Journalists in Three Classic Baseball Films.\u201d  NINE<\/em> 17:2 (Spring 2009): 45-57.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carvalho, John. \u201cJournal\u2019s Sports Innovations Evolve Slowly Over Time.\u201d Newspaper Research Journal<\/em> 35, no. 4 (2014): 40\u201353.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catsis, John R.  Sports Broadcasting<\/em>.  Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chandler, Joan.  Television and National Sport:  The United States and Britain<\/em>.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congdon, Lee.  Legendary Sportswriters of the Golden Age: Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Shirley Povich, and W.C. Heinz<\/em>.  Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cressman, Dale L. \u201cThe Pigskin and the Picture Tube: The National Football League\u2019s First Full Season on the CBS Television Network.\u201d  Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media<\/em> 51 (September 2007): 479\u2013497.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dawkins, Wayne.  Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith: The Dynamic Duo That Desegregated American Sports<\/em>.  New York: Routledge, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deford, Frank.  Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter<\/em>.  New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denham, Bryan E.  \u201cThe Outlook for Pugilism is Black: Representations of Prize Fighter Jack Johnson in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em>.\u201d  American Journalism<\/em> 41:1 (2024): 426-455.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

De Oca, Jeffrey Montez. \u201cA Cartel in the Public Interest: NCAA Broadcast Policy During the Early Cold War.\u201d American Studies<\/em> 49, no. 3\/4 (2008): 157\u2013194.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dinan, John.  Sports in the Pulp Magazines<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drake, Robert.  \u201cJesse Who?  Race, the Southern Press, and the 1936 Olympic Games.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 28:3 (Fall 2011): 81-110.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drake, Robert. \u201cJoe Louis, the Southern Press, and the \u2018Fight of the Century.\u2019\u201d Sport History Review<\/em> 43 (May 2012): 1\u201317.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eskenazi, Gerald.  A Sportswriter’s Life: From the Desk of a New York Times Reporter<\/em>.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Estes, David C.  “The Rival Sporting Weeklies of William Porter and Thomas Bangs Thorpe.” American Journalism<\/em> 2:2 (1985): 135-143.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evensen, Bruce J.  \u201cJazz Age Journalism\u2019s Battle Over Professionalism, Circulation, and the Sports Page.\u201d Journal of Sport History<\/em> 20:3 (1993): 229-246.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evensen, Bruce J.  “Cave Man” Meets “Student Champion”: Sports Page Storytelling for a Nervous Generation during America’s Jazz Age.”  Journalism Quarterly<\/em> 70 (1993) :767-79. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evensen, Bruce J.  When Dempsey Fought Tunney: Heroes, Hokum, and Storytelling in the Jazz Age<\/em>.  Knoxville: University of Kentucky Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fetter, Henry D. \u201cFrom \u2018Stooge\u2019 to \u2018Czar\u2019: Judge Landis, the Daily Worker<\/em>, and the Integration of Baseball.\u201d  American Communist History<\/em> 6 (June 2007): 29\u201363.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fisher, Heinz-Dietrich.  Sports Journalism at Its Best: Pulitzer Prize Winning Articles, Cartoons, and Photographs<\/em>.  Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fountain, Charles.  Sportswriter: The Life and Times of Grantland Rice<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.   (NY Tribune)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuller, Linda K., ed.  Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations<\/em>. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gallico, Paul.  Farewell to Sport<\/em>.  New York: Knopf, 1940.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gamache, Raymond W.  \u201cEvolution of the Sportscast Highlight Form: From Peep Show to Path\u00e9 to Pastiche.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Maryland, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gamache, Ray. \u201cSport as Cultural Assimilation: Representations of American Indian Athletes in the Carlisle School Newspaper.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 26 (Spring 2009): 7\u201337.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gamache, Raymond.  A History of Sports Highlights: Replayed Plays From Edison to ESPN<\/em>.  Jefferson: McFarland, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garrison, Bruce, and Mark Sabljak.  Sports Reporting<\/em>.  Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geltner, Ted.  Last King of the Sports Page: The Life and Career of Jim Murray<\/em>.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gildea, Dennis. \u201cScience Versus Size: \u2018Science\u2019 as a Keyword in the Newspaper Debate over Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 10: 1\/2 (1993): 102-118.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gillis, William.  \u201cRebellion in the Kingdom of Swat: Sportswriters, African American Athletes, and Coverage of Curt Flood\u2019s Lawsuit Against Major League Baseball.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 26:2 (2009): 67-97.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hagerman, Bonnie M.  “Skimpy Coverage: Sportswomen in Sports Illustrated<\/em>, 1954-2000.”  PhD dissertation, Ohio University, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Halberstam, David J.  Sports on New York Radio: A Play by Play History<\/em>.  Chicago: Masters Press, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ham, Eldon L.  Broadcasting Baseball: A History of the National Pastime on Radio and Television<\/em>.  Jefferson: McFarland, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harwell, Ernie.  Tuned to Baseball<\/em>.  South Bend: Diamond Press, 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haygood, Daniel Marshall.  \u201cTel Ra Productions: The Unknown Story of a Philadelphia Production Company That Captured Americans\u2019 Passion for Sports on Film in the Post-WWII Era.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 41:1 (2024): 86-119.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hirshon, Nicholas. \u201cThe Myth of the Nassau Mausoleum: A Brainchild of the First All-Sports Radio Station.\u201d Journalism History<\/em> 41:3 (2015): 139-152.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hirshorn, Nicholas. \u201cOne More Miracle: The Groundbreaking Media Campaign of John \u2018Mets\u2019 Lindsay.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 34:1 (2017): 2-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hirshon, Nicholas.  \u201cA Forgotten Pioneer in Sports Television: Phillies Jackpot Bowling<\/em> (1959-1960).\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 36:2 (2019): 196-219.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holtzman, Jerome.  No Cheering in the Pressbox<\/em>.  New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1974.  (interwar sports writers)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Husing, Ted.  Ten Years Before the  Mike<\/em>.  New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1935.  (early sports announcer for KDKA, CBS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hutchison, Phillip J.  \u201cReexamining Jack Johnson, Stereotypes, and America\u2019s White Press, 1908-1915.\u201d  Howard Journal of Communication<\/em> 23:3 (2012): 215-234.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hutchison, Philip J.  \u201cUsually White, But Not Always Great: A Journalistic Archaeology of White Hopes, 1908-2013.\u201d  Journalism History<\/em> 39:4 (Winter 2014): 231-240.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hutchison, Phillip J. \u201cFrom Bad Buck to White Hope: Journalism and Sonny Liston, 1958-1965.\u201d Journal of Sports Media<\/em> 10:1 (Spring 2015): 119-137.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hutchison, Phillip J.  \u201cGay Talese and Floyd Patterson: Constructing a Liminal Hero for an Ambivalent Age.\u201d Journal of Sports Media<\/em> 14:1\/2 (Spring-Fall 2019): 47-66.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inabinett, Mark.  Grantland Rice and His Heroes: The Sportswriter as Mythmaker in the 1920s<\/em>.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson, Dennis. \u201cSportswriter Red Smiths Jousts with the Mother Tongue.\u2019\u201d Style<\/em> 16, no. 4 (1982): 414\u201336.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson, Thomas C. \u201cTelevision, Pro Football, and Mobile Privatization, 1939-1970.\u201d Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television<\/em> 41:3 (2021):338-353.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jolliffe, Lee, and J. Steven Smethers.  “The Role of Telegraphy in the Development of Radio Sportscasting: The Case of Baseball.”  Journal of Radio Studies<\/em> 1 (1992): 83-96.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaszuba, David.  \u201cThey Are Women, Hear Them Roar: Female Sportswriters of the Roaring Twenties.\u201d  PhD dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 2003.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaszuba, Dave. \u201cA Sports Journalism Bibliography Compiled.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 23:2 (2006): 115-160.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaszuba, Dave. \u201cBringing Women to the Sports Pages: Margaret Goss and the 1920s.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 23:2 (2006): 13-44.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaszuba, Dave.  \u201cRingside, Hearthside: Sports Scribe Jane Dixon Embodies Struggle of Jazz Age Women Caught Between Two Worlds.\u201d  Journalism History<\/em> 35:3 (Fall 2009): 141-150.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khan, Abraham Iqbal. Curt Flood in the Media: Baseball, Race, and the Demise of the Activist-Athlete.<\/em> Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Koppett, Leonard.  Sports Illusion, Sports Reality: A Reporter’s View of Sports, Journalism, and Society<\/em>.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Koppett, Leonard.  The Rise and Fall of the Press Box<\/em>.  Toronto: Sport Media Publishing, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamb, Chris, and Glen Bleske.  \u201cThe Road to October 23, 1945: The Press and the Integration of Baseball.\u201d  Nine: A Journal of Baseball and Social Policy<\/em> 6 (Fall 1997): 48-68.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamb, Chris, and Glen Bleske. “Democracy on the Field: The Black Press Takes on White Baseball.”  Journalism History<\/em> 24:2 (Spring 1998): 51-59. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamb, Chris.  Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Spring Training<\/em>.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamb, Chris.  Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball<\/em>.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lannin, Joanne.  Who Let Them In? Pathbreaking Women in Sports Journalism<\/em>.  Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laucella, Pamela C.  Jesse Owens, the Press, and the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games<\/em>.  New York: Routledge, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leeke, Jim.  Ballplayers in the Great War: Newspaper Accounts of Major Leaguers in World War I Military Service<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lever, Janet, and Stanton Wheeler.  “The Chicago Tribune<\/em> Sports Page, 1900-1950.”  Sociology of Sport Journal<\/em> 1 (1994): 299-313.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenz, Alfred Lawrence.  “In the Wake of the News: The Beginnings of a Sports Column, by HEK.”  American Journalism<\/em> 9 (Winter-Spring 1992): 65-86.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCambridge, Michael. The Franchise: A History of Sports Illustrated.   <\/em>New York: Hyperion, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McChesney, Robert W.  \u201cMedia Made Sport: A History of Sports Coverage in the United States,\u201d in Media, Sports, and Society<\/em>, ed. Lawrence A. Wenner.   Newbury Park: SAGE, 1989. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCrory, Amy. \u201cSports Cartoons in Context: Tad Dorgan and Multi-Genre Cartooning in Early Twentieth- Century Newspapers.\u201d American Periodicals<\/em> 18, no. 1 (2008): 45\u201368.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McNamee. Graham.  You’re On the Air<\/em>.  New York: Harper, 1926.  (early sports announcer for WEAF, NBC radio)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McTaggart, Ursula.  \u201cWriting Baseball into History: The Pittsburgh Courier<\/em>, Integration, and Baseball in a War of Position.\u201d American Studies<\/em> 47:1 (Spring 2006): 113-132.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mangun, Kimberley. \u201cMarshall \u2018Major\u2019 Taylor and the Summer of 1910: How Salt Lake City Newspapers Framed the Bicycle Racer\u2019s Final Season.\u201d Newspaper Research Journal <\/em>34:3 (Summer 2013): 36-59.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Massaro, John.  \u201cPress Box Propaganda? The Cold War and Sports Illustrated, 1956.\u201d  Journal of American Culture <\/em>26:3 (September 2003): 361-370.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media History Digest<\/em> 12:2 (Fall-Winter 1992).  Special issue on sports journalism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mogren, Eric.  \u201cMiss Billie\u2019s Deer: Women in Bow Hunting Journals, 1920-1960.\u201d Journal of Sport History<\/em> 40:2 (Summer 2013): 215-239.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monk, Neil.  \u201cWhen Eustace Tilley Came to Madison Square Garden: Professional Hockey and the Editorial Policy of the New Yorker<\/em> in the 1920s and 1930s.\u201d American Periodicals <\/em>15:2 (2005): 178-195.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Montez de Oca, Jeffrey. \u201cA Cartel in the Public Interest: NCAA Broadcast Policy During the Early Cold War.\u201d  American Studies<\/em> 49:3\/4 (Fall\/Winter 2008): 157-194.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Montez de Oca, Jeffrey. Discipline and Indulgence: College Football, Media, and the American Way of Life during the Cold War.<\/em> New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2013. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moore, Glenn. \u201cIdeology on the Sportspage: Newspapers, Baseball, and Ideological Conflict in the Gilded Age.\u201d Journal of Sport History<\/em> 23, no. 3 (1996): 228\u2013255.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moretti, Anthony J. \u201cThe Cold War and the Olympics: Coverage in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times of the United States\u2019 and Soviet Union\u2019s Pursuit of Athletic Supremacy, 1948-1988.\u201d PhD dissertation, Ohio University, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neal-Lunsford. \u201cSport in the Land of Television: The Use of Sport in Network Prime-Time Schedules, 1946-1950.\u201d Journal of Sport History<\/em> 19:1 (Spring 1992): 56-76.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Mahony, Mike. Olympic Visions: Images of the Games through History.<\/em> Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oriard, Michael.  Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oriard, Michael.  King Football: Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press<\/em>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oriard, Michael. Brand NFL: Making and Selling America\u2019s Favorite Sport<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oriard, Michael.  Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oriard, Michael.  The Art of Football: The Early Game in the Golden Age of Illustration<\/em>.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Osselaer, Heidi J. \u201cThe ONLY Woman Sports Scribe: The Career of Sally Jacobs at the Arizona Republican<\/em> Newspaper, 1912-1922.\u201d Journal of Arizona History<\/em> 62:4 (Winter 2021): 507-535.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Toole, Kathleen M. \u201cIntercollegiate Football and Educational Radio: Three Case Studies of the Commercialization of Sports Broadcasting in the 1920s and 1930s.\u201d PhD dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Toole, Kathleen M.  \u201cJohn L. Griffith and the Commercialization of College Sports on Radio in the 1930s.\u201d  Journal of Sport History<\/em> 40:2 (Summer 2013): 241-257.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parente, D. E.  “A History of Television and Sports.”  PhD dissertation, University of Illinois, 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patton, Phil.  Razzle Dazzle: The Inside Story of Network Television Sports<\/em>.  New York: Dial Press, 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peterson, Jason.  \u201cA \u2018Race\u2019 for Equality: Print Media Coverage of the 1968 Olympic Protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos,\u201d American Journalism<\/em>, 26 (Spring 2009): 99\u2013121.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peterson, Jason A. \u201cFull Court Press: How Mississippi Newspapers Helped Keep State College Basketball Segregated, 1955\u20131973.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peterson, Jason A.  \u201cThey Deserve a Stinging Defeat: How Mississippi Newspapers\u2019 Coverage of the 1955 Junior Rose Bowl Protected a Closed Society.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 29:2 (Spring 2012): 93-123.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peterson, Scott D.  Reporting Baseball\u2019s Sensational Season of 1890: The Brotherhood War and the Rise of Modern Sports Journalism<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015.

Peterson, Scott D.  \u201cPicturing Sports: Finding the \u2018Actual\u2019 in Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Sporting News.\u201d Journalism History<\/em> 41:3 (Fall 2015):129-138.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peterson, Scott D. \u201cMuscular Heathenism versus Odor of Chivalry: A Critical Cultural Comparative Analysis of the Illustrated Newspaper Coverage of an 1860 Boxing Match.\u201d Journalism History<\/em> 45:1 (2019): 45-60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Povich, Shirley.  All Those Mornings\u2026at the Post: The Twentieth Century in Sports from the Famed Washington Post Columnist Shirley Povich<\/em>.  New York: Public Affairs, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Powers, Ron. Supertube: The Rise of Television Sports. <\/em>New York: Coward-McCann, 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Primm, Eric, Summer DuBois, and Robert Regoli.  \u201cEvery Picture Tells a Story: Racial Representation on Sports Illustrated<\/em> Covers.\u201d  Journal of American Culture<\/em> 30: 2 (June 2007): 222-231.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rader, Benjamin G.  In Its Own Image: How Television Has Transformed Sport<\/em>.  New York: The Free Press, 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rapoport, Ron, ed.  From Black Sox to Three-Peats: A Century of Chicago\u2019s Best Sports Writing from the <\/em>Tribune, Sun-Times, and Other Newspapers<\/em>.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reel, Guy. \u201cRichard Fox, John L. Sullivan, and the Rise of Modern American Prize Fighting.\u201d Journalism History<\/em> 27:2 (Summer 2001): 73-85.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reid, Leonard N., and Lawrence C. Soley. “Sports Illustrated<\/em> Coverage of Women in Sports.\u201d Journalism Quarterly<\/em> 56:4 (1979): 861-863.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reisler, Jim.  Black Writers- Black Baseball: An Anthology of Articles from Black Sportswriters who Covered the Negro Leagues<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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