Introduction: Playing with the pleasure principle / David Andrews
Rooting for the "Devil": Baseball, the Yankees, Shane Spencer (Who?), and social theory / George Ritzer
Why we like to lose: On being a Cubs fan in the heterotopia of Wrigley Field / Jane Juffer
God's team: The painful pleasure of the miracle on the Bosphorus / Grant Farred
They killed our grandfathers and our fathers and now the somsabitches are coming for us / Jim Shepard
"The buzz of dressing": Commodity culture, fraternity, and football fandom / Liz Moor
Objectivity be damned, or why I go to the Olympic Games: A hands-on lesson in performative nationalism / Amy Bass
Of totems and taboos: An Indian's guide to indian chiefs and other objects of fan fascination / Keya Ganguly
Mother and Mickey / Norman K. Denzin
Body wisdom: The way of karate / Annie Paul
Sync or swim? Plebiscitary sport, synchronized voting, and the shift from Mars to Venus / John Hartley
Fandom: Colin "Pine Trees" Meads / Kenneth Surin
Caddying for the Dali Lama: Golf, heritage tourism , and the Pinehurst Resort / Orin Starn
Take me out to the slot machines: Reflections on gambling and contemporary American culture / Jeffrey T. Nealon.