Communication and sport pioneers Lawrence Wenner and Walter Gantz surveyed male & female fans watching men's & women's basketball: "We’ve Come a Long Way Baby (Maybe): Male and Female Fans Watching Men’s and Women’s Basketball" Read it at doi.org/10.1177/216747…

Katelen Cowger examined the construction of athletic gender for the Global South and argues for the adoption of “storywork” as a decolonial method: "Decolonial Storyworking and Gender “Misfits”: Transforming Selves, Scholarship, and Systems" Read it at doi.org/10.1177/216747…

Women's athletes often experience online abuse. Amberlie Williams, Beth Fielding-Lloyd, James Newman, and Ruth Deller studied responses: "Sports Organisations’ Responses to Social Media Abuse Against Professional Sportswomen in UK Team Sports" OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1177/216747…

Luke Winslow and Blair Browning offer an interesting alternative perspective on "sports tanking:" "Politics for Losers: The Rhetoric of Sports Tanking as a Practice of Liberal Citizenship" doi.org/10.1177/216747…

"Understanding Chinese Weibo Users’ Frames of the LGBTQ+ Athletes During the 2024 Olympic Games: A Content Analysis" By Wenrong Cui, Yan Bing Zhang, and Xiaoxia Li doi.org/10.1177/216747…

Henk Erik Meier, Mara Verena Konjer, Swantje Müller & Michael Mutz examined how calls for the closure of the gender pay gap resonated in German media: "Getting the Pay Gap on the Board: Female Athletes’ Demands for ‘Equal Pay’ in German Media Narratives" doi.org/10.1177/216747…

“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 OPEN-ACCESS doi.org/10.1177/216747…

"Athletes’ Participation in Communication With Coaches: Functions and Preconditions in Elite Sports Using the Example of Three Film Sessions" By Andreas Hoffmann OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1177/216747…

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" Richard Jones Richard Jones OPEN ACCESS journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21…

Open-access poststructuralist discourse analysis of the governance of disability, gender in Chinese media: "Governing Paralympians: A Media Discourse Analysis of Disability and Gender in China" Lanfei Wang, Bryan Clift, Bonnie Pang & Jessica Francombe-Webb doi.org/10.1177/216747…

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. Our highlight: A nine-article exchange on the theory, method, and authorship in the first ten years of the journal prompted by Cummins & Hahn. 📜💥

Yes, it has! 🆕📜🚨 "Collegiate Athletes’ and Coaches’ Communicative Constitution of Resilience: A Case Study" By Lillian B. Feder Lillian Feder Read it OnlineFirst here: doi.org/10.1177/216747…

🆕📜🚨 "A Reasoned Action Approach to Parent-Child Concussion Communication in Youth Sports" By Daniel E. Hartman Read OnlineFirst at doi.org/10.1177/216747…

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 Read it at doi.org/10.1177/216747…

🆕📜🚨 "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 Read OnlineFirst at doi.org/10.1177/216747…

🆕📜🚨 “Red Card to Violence Against Women”: Sexist Discourses on Women’s Football in YouTube Comments From Türkiye 🇹🇷 By Yavuz Demir Read OnlineFirst at doi.org/10.1177/216747…

🆕📜🚨 "Mapping Live Sport Media Technologies: Developing a Taxonomy" By Sanghyeon Kim, Adam Karg, Tim Breitbarth, & Katherine Raw Read *open access* OnlineFirst at doi.org/10.1177/216747…

🆕📜🚨 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 Read OnlineFirst at doi.org/10.1177/216747…

🆕📜🚨 "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 Read *open access* OnlineFirst at doi.org/10.1177/216747…