This special issue presents three case studies of documentaries on sport, dealing specifically with the history of baseball, football-related racism and violence, and women's sport, respectively.

On October 24, 2012, the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League announced a plan to move from their current stadium in Nassau County to the recently opened Barclays Center in the borough of Brooklyn, marking the end of a decades-long political saga about whether and where to build a new...

This special issue (consisting of four papers in addition to an introduction) aims to rethink the connectedness of social inequalities, urban environmental issues, and sports. The first paper focuses on a conflict over the siting of a professional sports stadium. The second paper considers...

Contributors to this special issue illustrate the dynamic tension Inherent in children's sport. This tension is explored by 3 articles in the context of gymnastics and capoeira in Denmark, little league baseball in Taiwan, and rugby union football in an Australian high school.

This article examines a contemporary and unfolding conflict in downtown Brooklyn in New York City where the siting of a professional sport stadium intersects with the politics of race, class, and the built environment. The Atlantic Yards project is a $4.2-billion project to bring housing, retail,...

Taken as a whole, Ken Burns's 1994 documentary Baseball and its 2010 follow-up The Tenth Inning stand as some of the most influential documentaries on the history of American sports. Baseball develops the link between the "fun" of the game and philosophical beliefs about American democracy through...

The article is based on a critical case study of the BBC's investigative documentary titled Stadiums of Hate and the public's response to it. The documentary was broadcasted 11 days before the kickoff of Euro 2012 (UEFA [Union of European Football Associations] European Championships in Football),...

From its origins in 1903 as a parochial national cycle race, the Tour de France is today undeniably among the greatest annual sporting spectacles in the world. Since 1954 it has systematically extended its appeal beyond France's national borders, regularly staging a grand départ from other European ...

This article will theorize the relationship between stardom and documentary by considering the ways in which documentary representations contribute to the discursive formation of a star. Specifically, the article will explore the central role that documentary film has played in remaking Mike...

There is a widespread belief that sport participation inevitably contributes to youth development because sport's assumed essential goodness and purity is passed on to those who partake in it. Promoted and perpetuated by sport evangelists and kindred spirits, this belief inspires the strategy of...