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“I Just Learn a Single Phrase:” Language Acquisition and Cultural Fusion in Professional Baseball
By Patrick C. Gentile, Luke A. Skuratowicz and Zachary W. Arth
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Playing (& Smoking) by the Rules: Sport Media’s Racialized Coverage of Athlete Drug Use
By Patrick Crowe and Vincent Peña
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Japanese National Basketball Association Fans and Social Media Acceptance: Exploring the Role of Brand Respect
By Jeongbeom Hahm and Rei Yamashita
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Tweets, Triumphs, and Tensions: A Machine Learning Approach to Decoding Multi-Tier Thematic Framing of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on Social Media
By Chenglong Xu, Tyreal Yizhou Qian, Lei Yang and Dongfeng Liu
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“The Planet’s Champion” Daniel Bryan: How WWE Uses Sport, Neoliberalism and Colorblind Ideology in Professional Wrestling Narratives
By Ever Josue Figueroa, Vincent Peña and Krishnan Vasudevan
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Constructing a New Framework for Sport and Development: Investigating the Media Portrayal of Village Basketball Association in China
By Mingjiang Lu, Liwen Zhang and Zizhong Zhang
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Sports Identification in Situational Problem-Solving: A Framework for Understanding Fans’ Communicative Behaviors in Sports Crises
By Mu He
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Displaced and Diminished: How the Placemaking Value of “Being there” Influences Play-By-Play Broadcasters’ Professional Identity
By Brian A. Petrotta, Travis R. Bell and Lindsey Meeks
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A Uses and Gratifications-Based Market Segmentation Approach to Football Fans’ Online Media Usage Motivation
By Anina Gächter, Pascal Stegmann and Grazia Lang
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“Drive to Survive” Drives New Fans to Formula 1? Studying Viewer Experiences of a Sports Documentary and Its Influence on the Sport’s Fandom
By Dhwanil Shah and Anthony Lamont Williams
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Determinants of Online Live Esports Viewership With Advanced Data: The Case of League of Legends Champions Korea
By Yoonji Ryu, Jaehyun Jeong, Wonseok Jang, Gyemin Lee and Hyunwoong Pyun
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Extended Reality in Esports: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Research Avenues - An Experts’ Perspective
By Jakob J. Korbel, Jana E. Riewe, Sophia Elsholz and Rüdiger Zarnekow
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Diving in a Virtual Reality: Investigating Technology Acceptance
By Sophia Elsholz, Alexander Frank, Jakob J. Korbel and Rüdiger Zarnekow
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Dynamic Information Processing of Signage Advertising Embedded in VR-Mediated Sports Through Real-Time Eye-Tracking and Biometric Measures
By Bomin Paek, Minkyo Lee, Glenna L. Read and Hongwei Yang
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Bridging the Virtual and the Real: The Impact of Metaverse Sports Event Characteristics on Event Marketing Communication Effectiveness
By Zeyang Li and Lei Jia
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Between Hype and Reality: The Promises and Pitfalls of Predicting Sports Media Technological Innovation
By @andrewcbillings.bsky.social
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Communication & Sport - Volume 13, Number 6 Table of contents for Communication & Sport, 13, 6

This year’s final issue of Communication & Sport journal (vol. 13, iss. 6, December 2025) is accessible at journals.sagepub.com/toc/coma/13/6. Published by @sagepub.com, it includes 15 articles by 41 authors on a range of perspectives on technological innovation in sport media:

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"Politics on the Pitch – How Is Mediatized Football Consumption Related to the Exposure to and Recall of Political Incidents During the Euro 2024?"
By Daniel Vogler & Manuel Arrigo
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Refashioning Post-Cosmopolitan China: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Prada’s Use of China Women’s National Football Team Athletes as Brand Embodiments
By Ling’ai Wang, Hanhan Xue, & Joshua I. Newman
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"Mapping Live Sport Media Technologies: Developing a Taxonomy"
By Sanghyeon Kim, Adam Karg, Tim Breitbarth, & Katherine Raw
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“Red Card to Violence Against Women”: Sexist Discourses on Women’s Football in YouTube Comments From Türkiye 🇹🇷
By Yavuz Demir
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"Attentional and Evaluative Processing of Split-Screen Advertisements Embedded in Mediated Sports: An Eye-Tracking and Biometric Study"
By Minkyo Lee, Glenna L. Read, & Bomin Paek
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Soft Media, Hard Borders: Football, Media Framing, and Ethnonational Tensions in Wartime Israel - Chen Kertcher, 2025 This study examines how Hebrew-language sports media framed Jewish and Arab football clubs in Israel during the 2023–2024 football season, amid the ongoing Isra...

And a timely OnlineFirst article that is published Open Access:
"Soft Media, Hard Borders: Football, Media Framing, and Ethnonational Tensions in Wartime Israel"
By Chen Kertcher
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"A Reasoned Action Approach to Parent-Child Concussion Communication in Youth Sports"
By Daniel E. Hartman
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"Collegiate Athletes’ and Coaches’ Communicative Constitution of Resilience: A Case Study"
By Lillian B. Feder @LillyFed
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Communication & Sport - Volume 13, Number 5 Table of contents for Communication & Sport, 13, 5

This year’s fifth issue of Communication & Sport journal (vol. 13, iss. 5, October 2025) is accessible at journals.sagepub.com/toc/coma/13/5.
The highlight is definitely a nine-article exchange on the theory, method, and authorship in the first ten years of the journal prompted by Cummins & Hahn. 📜💥

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Open-access poststructuralist discourse analysis of the governance of disability and gender in Chinese print media:
"Governing Paralympians: A Media Discourse Analysis of Disability and Gender in China"
By Lanfei Wang, Bryan C. Clift, Bonnie Pang & Jessica Francombe-Webb
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This article will resonate with nostalgic fans of the times in sports and media that once were.
"The View From the Boundary: How County Cricket is Covered Amid the Digital Mediatization of Sport," by ‪Richard Jones @rlwjones.bsky.social
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"Athletes’ Participation in Communication With Coaches: Functions and Preconditions in Elite Sports Using the Example of Three Film Sessions"
By Andreas Hoffmann
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“It is an Incredibly Painstaking, Time-Taking Domain to Work in”
Examining the Work-Life Tensions and Meaningful Experiences of Data Work in Elite Sport
By Andrew Manley, Brad Millington and Shaun P. Williams
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