Beer, Babes, and Balls

David Nylund is Assistant Professor of Social Work at California State University at Sacramento. He is the author of Treating Huckleberry Finn: A New Narrative Approach to Working with Kids Diagnosed ADD/ADHD and the coeditor (with Craig Smith) of Narrative Therapies with Children and Adolescents.

• Foreword by Eric AndersonAcknowledgments1. Opening Pitch: Thinking about Sports Talk RadioSports Talk RadioTheorizing MasculinitiesDevelopment of Manhood in Twentieth-Century United StatesMasculinity and the Sports MediaMedia and Cultural StudiesCritical Radio StudiesOutline of the BookPart I THE CLIMATE FOR SPORTS TALK RADIO 2. The Sports Talk Radio Industry: From Rush to RomeRadio Deregulation and Talk RadioSports Talk Radio: An Extension of Political Talk Radio?3. Inside the Sports Radio Industry: Ads and LadsInfluence of Advertising, Ratings, and Corporate RadioSports Radio and Public DiscourseRomantic Belief in SportsHanging Out at the StationPart II READING SPORTS TALK RADIO 4. The Jim Rome Show: "Myspace.Com" For MenJim Rome: Hip Sports Talk Radio HostSpeech Codes and Themes: Learning How to Survive in the JungleThe "Jungle": A Site for the Performance of MasculinityMale Rite of Passage on The Jim Rome Show In-Group Humor on The Jim Rome ShowThe Contradictions of Masculinity5. Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the JungleGender: Competing Masculinities Gender: Women in the Jungle Queer Eye for the Sports GuyThe Race CardRome Has No Class Jungle NationalismHegemony or Hope? Sports Talk Radio’s PotentialPart III THE AUDIENCE OF SPORTS TALK RADIO 6. In the Jungle with the "Clones"Interviewing the "Clones" The Entertainment Value HomosocialityThe Audience Does Social Issues7. Where Everybody Knows Your NameCheers to Monday Night Football Lou From LodiA Community of Callers Among the Clones Hooligans8. A Sports Radio IntruderMy Take on the Audience of Sports Talk Radio 9. My Final TakeSports Talk and Civic DiscourseSports and Sexuality Masculinity and SportsNotesBibliographyIndex

"This rather brief yet ambitious book … is … readily accessible to a more general audience, and is a welcome addition to the growing literature on masculinity and the masculine identity creation process." — CHOICE"Nylund's self-reflexivity (largely because he is trained as a psychotherapist) of both loving sport and sports talk radio, but standing firmly for his pro-gay, pro-women, and pro-racial equality beliefs, might position Nylund as the perfect spokesperson for opening up the airwaves, the third space, for the inclusion of those previously marginalized by sport." — from the Foreword by Eric Anderson"Nylund examines the inner workings of the creation of Jim Rome's virtual radio culture in compelling and thought-provoking ways." — Andrew C. Billings, Clemson University