Sports & Media [July 5-9, 2010]

Monday July 5, 2010 – Roopika Risam (Emory University) presents: 100 Years Later: Race and "The Fight of the Century"

Tuesday July 6, 2010 – Gregory Zinman (New York University) presents: The Impossible Dream: Fake Sports Online

Wednesday July 7, 2010 – Emily Newman (St. Cloud University) presents: Finding Cullen Jones: The Complicated Position of Race in Swimming

Thursday July 8, 2010 – Mabel Rosenheck (Northwestern University) presents: Selling Strasburg: Baseball, Broadcast Flow, and the Commodity Audience 

Friday July 9, 2010 – Travis Vogan (Indiana University) presents: 30 for 30 and ESPN’s Quest for Cultural Consecration

Theme Week organized by Collin Coleman (Georgia State University)

Picture by Wally Gobetz via Flickr, used under Creative Commons License permission and altered with permission from the photographer.