Making the American Team: Sport, Culture, and the Olympic Experience

by Mark Dyreson

Book Overview

Sport dominates television and the mass media. Politics and business are a-bustle with sports metaphors. Endorsements by athletes sell us products. "Home run," "slam dunk," and the rest of the vocabulary of sport color daily conversation. Even in times of crisis and emergency, the media reports the scores and highlights.

Marky Dyreson delves into how our obsession with sport came into being with a close look at coverage of the Olympic Games...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252066545
• ISBN13: 9780252066542
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"