Communication & Sport, Vol. 12, 2024, No. 4

Introduction

Answering the Question on a ‘Racial Reckoning’: Resistance and Persistence in US Sporting Representations
Marie Hardin and Andrew C. Billings

Research Articles

Revisiting the Relationship Between Sports Fandom and the Black Criminal Stereotype: A Replication and Extension Study
Lauren C. Anderson and Arthur A. Raney

“All the Makings of an Eventual NFL Starter:” Racial/Ethnic Disparities in a Decade of National Football League Draft Profiles as Revealed by Natural Language Processing
David M. Markowitz

“We Need to Wake Our World up”: Collegiate Athletes’ Communicative Constitution of Activism
Lillian B. Feder, Diane L. Jackson, and Sean M. Eddington

Is it in the Game? Reflections of Race-Based Stereotypes in EA SPORTS FIFA 22
Johnathan Anderson

You Gotta Be There: A Thematic Content Analysis of the Historically Black College and University Sporting Experience
Sayvon JL. Foster

“A Beautiful Experience”: The Cultural Transitions of Latin American Minor League Baseball (MiLB) Players
Patrick C. Gentile and Zachary W. Arth

Baseball Made ‘Whole’: Rhetorical Hierarchy and Post-racial Discourse in Major League Baseball’s Inclusion of the Negro Leagues
Joseph M. Faina

Stay Woke: An Analysis of How Referees Evaluate the In-Game Communication of a Historically Black College and University that Competes in a Predominantly White Institution Conference
Andrew Dix