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Living out of Bounds
The Male Athlete's Everyday Life
Living out of Bounds
The Male Athlete's Everyday Life
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Despite some enormous differences in salary among professional athletes, most aspects of their daily lives remain surprisingly constant across sports and income levels. In Living out of Bounds author Steven J. Overman mines a wide array of sports biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, and diaries to construct a representative picture of the athlete's life. In the course of the work a portrait emerges that transcends the individual lives lived. The shared experiences of devoted training, of travel and hotels, and of tension within and beyond the clubhouse or gym, force us to appreciate the often oppressive reality of the sporting life, at the same time that the individual lives lived also provide us with a glimpse of the rewards that make sports so compelling to audiences and athletes across America.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: The Athletes Family and Youth Roots
Opening Rounds
The Influence of Parents
Coaches and Father Figures
Looking Backward
Chapter Two: The Narrow World of Sports
Part I: Sport as Sanctuary
Home Away from Home
Sanctum Sanctorum
Part II: Sport As Neverland
From Peter Pan to Pete Rose
Living in Neverland
Coaching as Paternalism
The Wider World
Chapter Three: Public Life, Private Space
Introduction
Coping with Celebrity
Chapter Four: In the Arenas Shadow
Gladiators Holiday
Practice Time
On the Road
Hotel Living
Time in; Time out
Filling Leisure Time
Playing Cards and Gambling
Recreational Drugs
Life Styles of the Nouveau Riche and Famous
Teammates and Buddies
Revealing the Inner Man
Chapter Five: Sex and Sexuality
Male Enclave
Cheerleaders, Temptresses, and Centerfolds: Marginalizing Women
Home and Away
Sexual Athletes
The Evolving Status of Gay Athletes
Chapter Six: Team Colors: Sport and Race
A Century of Change
Chapter Seven: The Athlete and His Body
The Toll of Training
Better Living through Chemistry
Getting Hurt
The Three Rs of Injuries: Repair, Rehab, and Recovery
No Pain, No Gain
Chapter Eight: Retiring from Sport
One Game at a Time
One-more-year Syndrome
Transition and Adjustment
The Ex-athlete in Search of Identity
Representative Retirements
Endnotes
Product details
| Published | 30 Nov 2008 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9780313346699 |
| Imprint | Praeger |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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