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Assignment:

Answer the following questions:

1. Compare and contrast the coverage and acceptance of Alan Wiggins (MLB) and Magic Johnson (NBA) in the coverage of their HIV positive status?
2. What were some of the economic factors impacting the health and morale within large American cities during the early 1990s?
3. Despite having a large platform and power as an athlete, what prohibited Michael Jordan did not push the envelope when it came to social issues, despite his powerful basketball bonafides. Who is an athlete today who is incredibly gifted, well-paid, and tends not to engage in the modern political discourse? Who might be their modern-day counterpart (it need not be from their sport).
4. Describe the concerted activity that Billie Jean King advised the US Women's National Soccer team to engage. What were the circumstances?
5. According to both Zirin (2008) and Gibbs (2022, Nov. 23), what problem persists with women's basketball in the United States?
6. In Gibb's piece, she overviews Cassandra Negley's argument, that women's sports are artificially restricted. What does she mean by that? Can you provide another example from our class where a sport or group of people experienced such an artificial restriction?
7. How did the Dietary Supplements Health Education Act Change the role of the USDA?
8. What were two similarities between early NASCAR and extreme sports featured on ESPN?
9. The claim that NASCAR needed to diversify its driver pool was not related to equity, but more so related to what?

References:

Gibbs, L. (2022, Nov. 23). #CoveringTheCoverage: Feastweek is a television famine for women's basketball. Power Plays.

Zirin, D. (2008). A people's history of sports in the United States: 250 years of politics, protest, people, and play. (New York, NY: The New Press).