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Hoop hotshot
Joe can play basketball, but he's more interested in impressing the crowd than in helping his team. After being being cut from the freshman squad can he prove he has what it takes to play the game?
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Male Football Comedy. A Reappraisal of Traditional, Declassed, Toxic Masculinity. Ted Lasso as an Improved Continuation of British Television Sports Series
This research focuses on UK television sports sit-coms (2002-2023), which we propose to name as 'male football comedy', and their depiction of declassed male characters in the so-called masculinity crisis. It investigates the causes of the comic portrayal of men in professional and personal failure, leading to toxic masculinity, in contrast to the cliché of the 'bossy woman'. The various productions portray class difference and, more specifically, the abyss between elite soccer and the working class. It is concluded that the subgenre and its somehow inherent toxic masculinity have been maintained, criticised and at the same time legitimised, and that US TV series Ted Lasso, belonging to the same subgenre, constitutes a conciliatory proposal for a better relationship between genders.
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Striker assist
Talented striker Jax Cooper has been Most Valuable Player for the Screaming Hawks for four years in a row, but when he joins a traveling league he finds out that he still has a lot to learn about teamwork.
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All the Battles
When he first showed up at Captain Ali's run-down boxing club, Saed was mocked for his bourgeois manners then humiliated in the ring. After barely a year of training, he has been consumed by the world of boxing and tipped for greatness. As his star rises, Saed is faced with the challenger he came for, but at what cost?Maan Abu Taleb's debut novel is one of heady victories and crushing defeats. Driven by direct, lean prose, All the Battles is a compelling story of class, identity, and personal transformation.
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Splashdance
\"Ursula, a bear, and Ricardo, a human, are preparing for the water ballet competition. But a new regulation at the community pool--no bears--leaves Ursula cut from the contest. Luckily, she encounters a group of undaunted animal swimmers at a local pond, and Ursula and her new team figure out a way to participate in the competition and make sure everyone is welcome at the pool once and for all.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction
In this comprehensive and insightful study, Christian K. Messenger contends that American writers have always created characters at play in the sure knowledge that to be active in sport in America is to be in touch with its people, their traditions, and their fantasy lives.
This is the first inclusive critical study of sport in American fiction with chapters on individual authors such as Hawthorne, Lardner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner, as well as studies of sport in the literature of the frontier and in boys' formula fiction. A work of literary criticism, Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction also draws on the cultural history of American sport and leisure and on a century of American literature.
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Stink and the ultimate thumb-wrestling smackdown
After second-grader Stink gets an unsatisfactory grade in physical education, his parents tell him he must play a sport and so he masters thumb wrestling, as seen on a sports channel.
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Body Awakening through Athletics
In the context of Young Adult Sports Fiction, Miranda Kenneally’s Breathe, Annie, Breathe (2014) addresses some crucial problematics that her protagonist, Annie, experiences through her body changes as she enters the world of athletics and campus life. Structured as a coming-of-age novel, Breathe, Annie, Breathe depicts Annie’s progressive acknowledgement of her body as she trains for a marathon so as to honor her recently deceased boyfriend. First characterized as a rather passive young woman with no awareness of her physical and emotional potential, Annie starts to become a mature adult with a burgeoning sense of self, able to understand her body, academic goals and sexual desires, ultimately leading her to recover her affectivity beyond her first love. As her training progresses, Annie focuses increasingly on her growing endurance and prowess rather than her weight loss. Thus, from a gender perspective, Kenneally’s novel demystifies the weight-loss process as an intrinsically feminine one, aligning it with wellbeing rather than beauty, in contrast to previous young adult novels. This points to an evolution in the Young Adult Sports Fiction genre which should be addressed in order to evaluate the positive impact it may have on young female readers’ canons of corporeal beauty.
En el campo de la literatura juvenil deportiva, Breathe, Annie, Breathe (2014), de la autora estadounidense Miranda Kenneally, aborda la transición a la universidad de su protagonista, Annie, quien experimenta importantes cambios vitales y corporales al comenzar la vida en el campus e introducirse en el atletismo. Siguiendo la estructura de una novela de iniciación, Breathe, Annie, Breathe se centra en el reconocimiento del cuerpo a través de una maratón para la que la protagonista se entrena con la intención de honrar a su pareja, recientemente fallecida. Inicialmente caracterizada como una joven pasiva y sin conciencia sobre su potencial físico y afectivo, Annie va evolucionando hacia la madurez adulta, al tiempo que descubre su cuerpo y deseos sexuales y centra sus aspiraciones académicas. Este proceso, al final, la llevará a recuperar un sentido de afectividad más allá de su primer amor. A medida que avanza en sus entrenamientos, Annie no concede importancia a su pérdida de peso y se enorgullece, por el contrario, de la fuerza y resistencia conseguidas. En este sentido, desde una perspectiva de género la obra de Kenneally desmitifica la feminidad de la pérdida de peso al equiparar el cambio físico con el bienestar, más que con la belleza, al contrario de lo que ocurría con novelas juveniles anteriores. Ello indica una evolución en la novela juvenil deportiva que requiere de atención académica con el fin de evaluar el impacto positivo que puede tener sobre los cánones de belleza corpórea de las lectoras jóvenes.
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Volleyball victory
Andrea is looking forward to another winning volleyball season with her school team, but the new coach is putting them through a lot of basic drills, and Andrea is frustrated because she is not playing the position she is used to, and she does not understand why.
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The Adventures of Ulysses
A fantastic collection of legends about the Greek king of Ithaca, Odysseus, also known by his Latin name of Ulysses, written by English essayist Charles Lamb.
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