Out on the Field: Gender, Sport and Sexualities

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The Bears need to get out of bounds," Starkey began his call, thinking Cal could attempt a Hail Mary if it immediately reached the sideline. It wasn't like, you think 40 years later, this was going to be such a momentous event," Diane said. "But people said to me later, who were out on the street, people were at intersections and nobody was moving, because they were listening to it on the radio."

Hughson J and Free M (2011) Football’s ‘coming out’: soccer and homophobia in England’s tabloid press. Media international Australia incorporating culture and policy 140. We've heard no decision yet. Everybody is milling around on the [the conferencing officials now finally signal a touchdown] FIELD! AND THE BEARS! THE BEARS HAVE WON! The Bears have won! Oh, my God! The most amazing, sensational, dramatic, heart-rending... exciting, thrilling finish in the history of college football! California has won the Big Game over Stanford! Oh, excuse me for my voice, but I have never, never seen anything like it in the history of I have ever seen any game in my life! The Bears have won it! There will be no extra point! Caudwell J (2011) ‘Does your boyfriend know you’re here?’ The spatiality of homophobia in men’s football culture in the UK. Leisure Studies 30(2): 123–138. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2010.541481. Starkey approached KGO's station manager with a plan: Transfer him the rights to The Play. He would arrange for the tapes to be produced and would sell them solely at the manufacturing cost. The worst thing would be doing what the other broadcasts did," Starkey said. "They wrote it off too soon."In” is the more general prepositional choice. We use it to talk about any type of employment that might be relevant to a person.

The way Starkey described The Play jibed with his general broadcast style. He wasn't a football lifer, like others in the booth. The Chicago native played second-string in junior college but had no football broadcasting experience before landing the Cal job in 1975. Starkey had worked in banking in Los Angeles and the Bay Area before breaking into sports broadcasting, his dream job. The Band is on the Field He then delivered the famous summation of The Play: "The most amazing, sensational, dramatic, heartrending, exciting, thrilling finish in the history of college football. California has won the Big Game over Stanford!"Major clothing brands pay athletes and sports billions of dollars because they know that professional athletes have a powerful influence on young people. No matter what level of football you play, it’s probably fair to assume that you want to play your best and stand out amongst your teammates right? Of course, you do! The studies found teams that hold pride games and receive education use much less homophobic attitudes than other teams in their leagues. The field here, can also refer to an area of study, as in the field of education or biology. Charles Darwin, for instance, wrote in an 1846 letter: “I am delighted that you are in the Field, geologising or palaeontologising.” Stanford set up for a field-goal attempt that everyone, including Starkey, expected to be the game winner. But rather than ensure the field-goal attempt would be the final play, Stanford took a timeout with eight seconds left. Mark Harmon converted the 35-yard field goal. Four seconds remained.