Sports Journalism and Coming Out Stories: Jason Collins and Michael Sam (1st ed. 2017 edition.)

This text examines how sports journalists covered the historic coming out stories of National Basketball Association (NBA) veteran Jason Collins and football All-American Michael Sam in the context of sports' 'toy department' reputation as a field whose standards are often criticised as lacking in rigour and depth compared to other forms of journalism.

Employing a media sociology approach, reporting about Collins and Sam is addressed in the book via three content analysis studies and interviews with two prominent sports journalists.