Description: 1. Introduction: Why sports fascinate and captivate us 2. Naturals: The role of evolution 3. Built for Action: The structure and functions of the human body 4. Animal Spirits: A history of sports 5. The Hunt for Reasons: How theorists have explained sports 6. Behind on Points: Why black sports stars are symbols of failure 7. Building Bodies: Science, sex and natural born losers 8. The Second-Best Sex: How women are devalued and diminished by sports 9. Champs or Cheats?: Drugs in sports and attempts to eliminate them 10. Not for the Fainthearted: Violence and the Legal Battlefield11. Through Artists' Eyes: Representations of sports 12. A Match Made in Heaven 13. At the Business End: Rupert Murdoch and the commercial world of sports 14. The Tick that Conquered the World: Nike and the globalization process 15. Same Rules, Different Game: Why sports and politics mix so well 16. Things to Come: What lies in the future?

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