| Table of Contents |
| | Preface | ix |
| pt. I | Framing Fallen Sports Celebrity | |
| 1. | Fallen Sports Hero in the Age of Mediated Celebrityhood / Lawrence A. Wenner | 3 |
| 2. | Exposing Celebrity Sports / Toby Miller | 17 |
| 3. | Athletic Heroic Acts and Living on the Moral Edge / William J. Morgan | 24 |
| 4. | From Coverage to Recovery: Mediating the Fallen Sports Celebrity / Bryan E. Denham | 36 |
| pt. II | Fallen Individual Sports Celebrity | |
| 5. | Tiger Woods Lands in the Rough: Golf, Apologia, and the Heroic Limits of Privacy / Andrew C. Billings | 51 |
| 6. | Andre Agassi and the Tides of Tennis Celebrity: Image, Reconstruction, and Confession / Kimberly S. Schimmel | 64 |
| 7. | On Track, off Track, on Oprah: The Framing of Marion Jones as Golden Girl and American Fraud / Lindsey J. Mean | 77 |
| 8. | Ups and Downs of Skating Vertical: Christian Hosoi, Crystal Meth, and Christianity / Becky Beal | 92 |
| 9. | Wrestling with Extremes: Steroids, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Chris Benoit / Kurt Lindemann | 107 |
| 10. | Bad Landing: Charting the Gold and Criminal Records of Finnish Ski Jumper, Matti Nykanen / Zoe Avner | 120 |
| 11. | Traitor on High Seas: Russell Coutts, Kiwi Loyalty, and Opportunism in International Yachting / Steven J. Jackson | 135 |
| 12. | Running Down What Comes Naturally: Gender Verification and South Africa's Caster Semenya / Shari L. Dworkin | 148 |
| pt. III | Fallen Team Sports Celebrity | |
| 13. | Dog Bites Man? The Criminalization and Rehabilitation of Michael Vick / Mar Magnusen | 165 |
| 14. | Guns Are No Joke: Framing Plaxico Burress, Gilbert Arenas, and Gunplay in Professional Sports / Katherine L. Lavelle | 179 |
| 15. | Interrogating Discourses About the WNBA's "Bad Girls": Intersectionality and the Politics of Representation / Cheryl Cooky | 193 |
| 16. | Liquid Beckham: Inoculating a Star Against Falls from Grace / David L. Andrews | 208 |
| 17. | No Gagging Matter: John Terry Plays Centre Back from Dad of the Year to (Alleged) Debauchery / Bill Grantham | 222 |
| 18. | "Wayne's World": Media Narratives of Downfall and Redemption About Australian Football "King," Wayne Carey / Karen Brooks | 236 |
| 19. | Spinning out of Control: Harbhajan Singh, Postcolonial Cricket Celebrity, and the "Revenge Narrative" / David Rowe | 251 |
| pt. IV | Fallen Sideline Sports Celebrity | |
| 20. | "Bully" and the "Girl Who Did What She Did": Neo-Homophobia in Coverage of Two Women's College Basketball Coaches / Nicole M. LaVoi | 267 |
| 21. | Coaches Gone Wild: Media, Masculinity, and Morality in Big-Time College Football / Michael L. Butterworth | 284 |
| 22. | Faking It: Dean Richards, Rugby Union, and Harlequins at the Bloodgate / Michael Atkinson | 298 |
| 23. | Who's Sorry Now? Sportscasters Falling from Grace, Saving Face / Heather L. Hundley | 313 |
| 24. | Don Cherry and the Cultural Politics of Rock'Em Sock'Em Nationalism: Complicating the Hero-Villain Binary in Canada / Lisa McDermott | 330 |
| pt. V | Afterword | |
| 25. | Beyond the Failed Sports Hero: Where We All Fall Down / Scott Tinley | 349 |
| | Contributors | 357 |
| | Index | 363 |
