Millions of people around the world are engaged in sports and games. This volume studies the
ways in which engagement is performed in popular culture. We do not just watch football - we
perform by being a fan. NBA players do not simply run up and down the court. Instead on and
off the court they perform certain roles many informed by hip hop culture. Such performances
are rhetorical: they manage attitudes behaviors and predispositions influencing the
distribution of power. Competitive hot dog eaters bull riding and Mexican wrestlers are some
of the other sports and games covered by the contributors. The book is unique in bringing
together the three themes of sports and games performance and the rhetoric of popular culture
and is relevant for both scholarly use and classroom adoption in courses ranging from sport and
society rhetoric composition persuasion and argument and popular culture.
