Special Issue: Sport and Alcohol
Introduction
Introduction to special issue on sport and alcohol: On the contemporary agenda of research on alcohol within the sociology of sport
Catherine Palmer
Articles
Sport and alcohol – who’s missing? New directions for a sociology of sport-related drinking
Catherine Palmer
Alcohol consumption in sportspeople: The role of social cohesion, identity and happiness
Jin Zhou, Kerry S O’Brien, and Derek Heim
Alcohol and community football in Australia
Matthew Nicholson, Russell Hoye, and Kevin M Brown
Adolescent sport participation and alcohol use: The importance of sport organization and the wider social context
Vidar Halldorsson, Thorolfur Thorlindsson, and Inga Dora Sigfusdottir
Learning to get drunk: The importance of drinking in Japanese university sports clubs
Brent McDonald and Kate Sylvester
Drinking with the derby girls: Exploring the hidden ethnography in research of women’s flat track roller derby
Michele K Donnelly
Alcohol consumption among women rugby players in France: Uses of the “third half-time”
Julien Fuchs and Yannick Le Hénaff
The football fan and the pub: An enduring relationship
Kevin Dixon
Alcohol-related player behavioral transgressions: Incidences, fan media responses, and a harm-reduction alternative
Aaron CT Smith, Constantino Stavros, Kate Westberg, Brad Wilson, and Colleen Boyle
Binge drinking and sports participation in college: Patterns among athletes and former athletes
Kyle Green, Toben F Nelson, and Douglas Hartmann
A beer a minute in Texas football: Heavy drinking and the heroizing of the antihero in Friday Night Lights
Robert L Kerr
Recovery from addiction and the potential role of sport: Using a life-course theory to study change
Sarah Landale and Martin Roderick
Alcoholism and recovery: A case study of a former professional footballer
Carwyn Jones
