PART 1: SPORT AS A MICROCOSM OF SOCIETY1. "Sports: An Offer We Can't Refuse", Dave Zirin
2. "American Sport in the New Millennium", D. Stanley Eitzen (revised)
3. "The Great Recession and Sport", D. Stanley Eitzen (new)
PART 2: SPORT AND SOCIALIZATION: ORGANIZED SPORTS AND YOUTH
4. "Play Group versus Organized Competitive Team: A Comparison", Jay J. Coakley
5. "Anyone Up for Stickball? In a PlayStation World, Maybe Not", Timothy Williams and Cassie Feldman
6. "Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities", Michael A. Messner
PART3: SPORT AND SOCIALIZATION: THE MASS MEDIA
7. "The Televised Sports Manhood Formula", Michael A. Messner, Michele Dunbar, and Darnell Hunt
8. "Gender in Televised Sports", Michael A. Messner and Cheryl Cooky (new)
PART 4: SPORT AND SOCIALIZATION: SYMBOLS
9. "American Flags as Big as a Field", John Branch
10. "Redskins: Is No Honor, It's an Insult", Bill Plaschke (new)
11. "The De-Athleticization of Women: The Naming and Gender Marking of Collegiate Sport Teams", D. Stanley Eitzen and Maxine Baca Zinn
PART 5: PROBLEMS OF EXCESS: OVERZEALOUS ATHLETES, PARENTS, AND COACHES
12. "Female Gymnasts and Ice Skaters: The Dark Side", Joan Ryan
13. "Bench the Parents", Buzz Bissinger (new)
14. "Harm to Children in Youth Sports", Mark Hyman (new)
15. "Missed Opportunities: Boston's Student-Athletes Face a Sports Program in Distress", Bob Hohler (new)
PART 6: PROBLEMS OF EXCESS: SPORT AND DEVIANCE
16. "Ethical Dilemmas in American Sport: The Dark Side of Competition", D. Stanley Eitzen
17. "Crime and Athletes: New Racial Stereotypes", Richard E. Lapchick
PART7: PROBLEMS OF EXCESS: PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS IN SPORTS
18. "Creating the Frankenstein Athlete: The Drug Culture in Sports", Fran Zimmiuch (new)
19. "Finding the Golden Genes", Patrick Barry
20. "Outraged over the Steroids Outrage", Robert Lipsyte
PART 8: PROBLEMS OF EXCESS: BIG-TIME COLLEGE SPORT
21. "College Sports 101: A Primer on Money, Athletics, and Higher Education in the 21st Century Sport", The Knight Commission Intercollegiate Athletics (new)
22. "Admissions Exemptions Benefit Athletes", Alan Scher Zagier (new)
23. "Is Sports in Your Mission Statement?", Charles T. Clotfeltor (new)
24. "The Big-Time Sports Plantation and the Slaves Who Drive It", D. Stanley Eitzen
PART 9: PROBLEMS OF EXCESS: SPORT AND MONEY
25. "Does Football Cost Too Much?", Sally Jenkins (new)
26. "When Domes Attack", Dave Zirin (new)
27. "Corporate Titans Competing for Olympic Gold", Geoff Dembicki (new)
PART 10: STRUCTURED INEQUALITY: SPORT AND RACE/ETHNICITY
28. "Sporting Dreams Die on the Rez", Kevin Simpson
29. "Say It Ain't So, Big Leagues: The Down Side for Latin American Players", Dave Zirin
30. "The 2010 Racial and Gender Report Card: National Football League", Richard Lapchick with Jamile M. Kitnurse and Austin Moss II (new)
31. "Racism, Ethnic Discrimination and Exclusion of Migrants and Minorities in Sport", European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (new)
PART 11: STRUCTURED INEQUALITY: SPORT AND GENDER
32. "Are We There Yet? Thirty-Seven Years Later, Title IX Hasn't Fixed It All", R. Vivian Acosta and Linda Jean Carpenter (new)
33. "Her Life Depends On It: Sport, Physical Activity and the Health and Well Being of American Women and Girls", Women's Sports Foundation (new)
34. "The Meaning of Success: The Athletic Experience and the Development of Male Identity", Michael A. Messner
PART 12: STRUCTURED INEQUALITY: SPORT AND SEXUALITY
35. "Changing the Game: Homophobia, Sexism, and Lesbians in Sport", Pat Griffin
36. "Gay Athletes' Dilemma", Anthony Cotton
37. "Equal Opportunity for Transgender Student Athletes", Pat Griffin and Helen J. Carroll (new)
PART 13: EXPANDING THE HORIZON: SPORT AND GLOBALIZATION
38. "Baseball and Globalization", Alan M. Klein
39. "Nike's Crimes", David Macaray (new)
40. "New Media and Global Sports", George H. Sage (new)