Communication & Sport, Vol. 12, 2024, No. 3

Introduction

Monsters and the Sports They Play: Squaring the Circle of Fan Allegiance and Cognitive Dissonance
Andrew C. Billings and Marie Hardin

Research Articles

“Putting His Off-Field Issues Aside…”: Exploring Online Sport Fan Community Response to Allegations Against Deshaun Watson
Jacob Nason

Trolligans: Conceptual Links Between Trolling and Hooliganism in Sports and Esports
Christine L. Cook, Veli-Matti Karhulahti, Guy Harrison, and Nicholas D. Bowman

Exploring the Dark Side of Esports Online Spectatorship: Passion as a Mediator and Collective Narcissism as a Moderator
Tyreal Yizhou Qian, Katja Sonkeng, and Lei Luo

Targeted Social Media Harassment: A Comparative Analysis of Toxicity Directed at Men and Women Sports Reporters
Rich G. Johnson, Samer Al-khateeb, Ali Forbes, and Kyran Cupido

“Go and Wash up!”: Gender Violence in Female Refereeing and Its Media Coverage in Brazil and Spain
Joaquín Marín-Montín and Paula Bianchi

Breaking the Silence: Examining the Role of Parent Involvement and Concussion Knowledge on Sports-Related Concussion Conversations
Daniel E. Hartman and Brian L. Quick

Media Framing of Student-Athlete Suicide: An Examination of Problems, Causes, Moral Evaluations and Treatment Recommendations
Scott Parrott

The Beginning of a Reckoning: An Application of Situational Crisis Communication Theory and Image Repair to the National Women’s Soccer League
Evan Frederick, Samuel Schmidt, and Ann Pegoraro