Marking the boundaries of the “normal” in televised sports: The play-by-play of race

Ongoing research into the texts of televised sports demonstrates the resilience of ideologies about race and racial difference. Despite wide-spread scholarly and popular debate and increased consciousness in the sports media industry, particular ways of understanding racial differences appear to remain firmly embedded in the everyday discourses and practices of televised sports. Although the days of acceptable overt racism appear to be gone, pervasive and historically grounded beliefs about racial differenc