Stories of Sports: Critical Literacy in Media Production, Consumption, and Dissemination discusses how media demonstrates privilege, policing, stereotypes, confirmation bias, and objectification in a world where the role of athletics in Western society speaks to privilege and power. Contributors use a critical media lens to analyze texts, including newspapers, magazines, film, television, social media, and sportscasts to demonstrate to readers the ways in which sports stories rein...

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Smart women don’t grow older. They grow younger.A book of hope, Younger Next Year for Women shows you how to become functionally younger for the next five toten years, and continue to live thereafter with newfound vitality. Learn how the Younger Next Year plan of following“Harry’s Rules”—a program of exercise, diet, and maintaining emotional connections—will not only help you turnback your physical biological clock, but will improve memory, cognition, mood, and...