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The Politics of Taking a Knee: Journalist Demographics and Media Analysis of the Colin Kaepernick Protest

Alexander Deeb, Adam Love, and Patrick Crowe

During the 2016 National Football League season, Colin Kaepernick was the subject of intense media scrutiny as he protested racial injustice by taking a knee during the national anthem. Given the fact that the sports media is disproportionately dominated by White men, this study analyzed media framing of Kaepernick with particular consideration to the racial demographics of journalists producing media coverage. Our analysis indicates that positive articles (i.e., articles that praised Kaepernick) generally outnumbered negative articles (i.e., articles that criticized Kaepernick), but articles written by White men were significantly more likely to use negative frames, whereas authors of color more frequently framed Kaepernick in a positive way. Ultimately, we conceptualize media coverage of Kaepernick’s protest as a racial project that seeks to either reproduce or subvert meanings associated with race and racism.

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The Cotillion Community

Maria J. Veri and Diane L. Williams

The Amy Morris Homans Cotillion, held annually from 1982 to 2014, was a safe space for lesbian professionals in kinesiology, as well as a challenge and a disruption to the misogyny, homophobia, and heterosexism that pervaded the field in the mid- and late 20th century. In this article, we highlight the lived experiences of the broader Cotillion community. We conducted oral-history interviews with American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAPHERD) convention attendees about their memories of the Cotillion and Pre-Cotillion. Through these stories, we convey the significance of these events for the women and lesbians in kinesiology/physical education departments who attended them. The article begins with descriptions of interviewees’ lives within the field, progresses to how attendees discovered and experienced the Cotillion and/or Pre-Cotillion, and then explores the impact of the Cotillion, both at AAPHERD and beyond the convention.

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From the Closet to the Center

Diane L. Williams, Maria J. Veri, and Jackie Hudson

The Amy Morris Homans Cotillion and Pre-Cotillion created unique and liberatory spaces for many lesbian and allied women attending the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) convention between 1982 and 2014. In this article, we draw on feminist and queer theories to consider the multiple meanings embedded in Cotillion goers’ lived experiences. Memories of planning and participating in these events linger for attendees decades later. The impact of attending ranged from lighthearted appreciation to profound gratitude. The Cotillion events disrupted the oppressive status quo at the AAHPERD convention and within kinesiology in favor of community building, joy, and the celebration of lesbian identities. We explore the disruption of heteropatriarchal norms and the creation of alternative community spaces to learn better from the past and to help create liberatory futures for practitioners and scholars in kinesiology.

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In the Mirror of the Past: A History of Women’s Football in the Republic of Turkey

Yavuz Demir and Salih Tiryaki

Football in Turkey has a framework that, by the discourses it generates in the social and cultural spheres, creates, and reinforces hegemonic masculinity. In Turkey, newspapers and magazines have produced discourses aimed at alienating women from football. Since the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, very few news articles about women playing football have been published in the newspapers and magazines, and those that have been published work to distance women from football. However, from 1960 onward, news about women’s football slowly began to find its place more frequently in newspapers. In this study, we assess the history of women’s football in the Republic of Turkey, which has a 100-year history, considering developments that ensued from the past to the present. Newspapers and magazines were analyzed to offer an interpretation of the development of women’s football in Turkey, as these media serve as important sources to comprehend how women were distanced from a field perceived as a bastion of hegemonic masculinity, such as football, in traditional societies. Despite the number of news articles about women’s football in Turkish newspapers increasing over the years, we conclude that women’s football did not progress over the course of a century in Turkey and still remains very much in the background.

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Volume 13 (2024): Issue 3 (Aug 2024)

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Managing Sport Development: An International Approach (2nd ed.)

Christina Gipson

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Prologue: Have You Heard About the Cotillion?

Maria J. Veri and Diane L. Williams

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“A Secret in Plain Sight”: Origin Stories From the Amy Morris Homans Cotillion

Maria J. Veri, Diane L. Williams, Jackie Hudson, Roberta S. Bennett, Karen P. DePauw, Emily H. Wughalter, and Linda Zwiren

The story of the Amy Morris Homans Cotillion is little known outside the circles of those who founded and attended the event. In this article, we detail the origins of the Cotillion from its inception in 1982 to its final iteration in 2014. This underground social event provided a safe space for women to connect and create a lesbian community of joyful sisterhood with long-lasting professional and personal relationships. At its peak, the Cotillion gathered hundreds of women, inviting them to drink, dance, and dream of a better world. We place the Cotillion in the context of the historical development of women’s physical education and the field of kinesiology and use oral-history interviews with women who founded, organized, and regularly attended the Cotillion to create a narrative of the origins of this event.

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Diversity and Inclusion in Sport Organizations: A Multilevel Perspective (5th ed.)

Farah J. Ishaq

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How Transfer Behavior Impacts Consumer Perceptions and Intentions Toward College Athletes Who Pursue Name, Image, and/or Likeness Activities

Andrea L. Matthews and Jodi Pelkowski

Recent changes to the National Collegiate Athletic Association policy on name, image, and/or likeness and transfer policies have transformed how college athletes may market themselves as human brands. Above all, branding success depends on consumer perceptions. Using a national survey of U.S. consumers and an experiment, we test how transfer behavior impacts consumer purchase intentions for a collegiate athlete’s brand. We find that transferring to a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I or Division II school decreases purchase intentions by lowering consumer identification with the athlete through perceived profit motive or perceived athlete quality, respectively. These findings contribute to branding theory and provide insight to players and schools, as they navigate the changing landscape of college athletics.