Living out of bounds the male athlete's everyday life /
From the Publisher: Despite some enormous differences in pay among professional athletes, most aspects of their daily lives remain surprisingly constant across sports and income levels. Living out of Bounds provides answers to persistent questions about what it's really like to be an athlete an...
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| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Praeger,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1: Athlete's Family And Youth
- Roots
- Opening rounds
- Influences of parents
- Coaches and father figures
- Looking back
- 2: Narrow World Of Sports
- Part 1: Sport As Sanctuary
- Home away from home
- Sanctum sanctorum
- Part 2: Sport As Neverland
- From Peter Pan to Pete Rose
- Living in Neverland
- Coaching as paternalism
- Wider world
- 3: Public Life, Private Space
- Introduction
- Coping with celebrity
- 4: In The Arena's Shadow
- Gladiator's holiday
- Practice time
- On the road
- Hotel living
- Time in; time out
- Filling leisure time
- Playing cards and gambling
- Recreational drugs
- Lifestyles of the Nouveau Riche and famous
- Teammates and buddies
- Revealing the inner man
- 5: Sex And Sexuality
- Male enclave
- Cheerleaders, temptresses, and centerfolds: marginalizing women
- Home And away
- Sexual athletes
- Evolving status of gay athletes
- 6: Team Colors: Sport And Race
- Century of change
- 7: Athlete And His Body
- Toll of training
- Better living through chemistry
- Getting hurt
- Three r's of injuries: repair, rehab, and recovery
- No pain, no gain
- 8: Retiring From Sport
- One game at a time
- One-more-year syndrome
- Transition and adjustment
- Ex-athlete in search of identity
- Representative retirements
- 9: Conclusions
- Notes
- Index.