Once deemed an unworthy research endeavor, the study of sports fandom has garnered the attention of seasoned scholars from a variety of academic disciplines. Identity and socialization among sports fans are particular burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of specialists in the social sciences. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, captures an eclectic collection of new studies from accomplished scholars in t...

They rode into town without a word.Four men on horseback. Dust-covered, hard-eyed, and silent as the grave. Nobody knew where they had come from, and nobody knew who had sent them. But wherever they went, trouble followed close behind.When a quiet ranching settlement is struck by a string of killings, whispers spread about a posse that rides only at dusk and leaves no witnesses behind. Some say they are lawmen. Others say they are killers wearing justice like a borrowed coa...