2nd Half of Links on Articles Concerning Sports Violence

http://gse.berkeley.edu/program/LLCMA/Athletes/articles/irss_2003.pdf

This site provides a look at the relationship between race and its impact in sports. The site’s main idea is that some behaviors are penalized in sports because of the race associated with the offender. It also looks at the stereotype of races and their roles in violence.

http://newsinfo.iu.edu/tips/page/normal/1736.html

From the University of Indiana, this site looks at how fan violence and player violence interacts. It mainly states that fans are far more influenced by the players than the fans are by the players, but gives nothing to back this up.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCR/is_2_34/ai_63365174

This site has a very thorough article studying violence in sports by focusing on college students and intramurals. The site does a good job of explaining its argument which focuses mainly on the idea of the social learning theory.

http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/449.html

This was another article provided by the University of Indiana. Lynn Jamieson lays the blame with general violence in society today and claims that sports will mirror that society. There is no real evidence provided to back up her ideas even though she is an associate professor.

http://sociomedia.ibelgique.com/tvstats.htm

With this website, statistics on television viewing by children is provided. It discusses in a biased manner the dominant messages imposed by sports on television including aggressive athletes are rewarded, war metaphors are constantly used by commentators, and that games promote conflict.

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:GOvKF994EbUJ:aic.gov.au/conferences/ncv2/tulloch.pdf+statistics+sports+violence&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us

This is a study by an Australian research group. It does a good job of providing facts and brings up the idea of domestic violence at home and the link with sports. It proposes the idea stating that ethnic groups where violence such as domestic violence is considered acceptable and allowed to continue links to violence in sports.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/notag/sports-columnist-says-video-games-desensitize-us-to-sports-violence-298982.php

This site discusses the issue of sports violence and looks at how a columnist for the Virginian-Pilot claims in a very biased and opinionated manner that videogames such as Madden Football desensitize the players from real sports violence.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E1DA1338F932A25754C0A9669C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/J/Junta,%20Thomas

This is from an article taken from the New York Times. It raises the idea of increased injuries due to increased aggression. It presents ideas of parents pushing kids hoping they can become millionaires through sports or that they can live through their child.

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/532474/

This is one of the few websites dismissing the notion that the next youth sport event you attend will break out in a brawl. Based on research and statements from professors, the article presents the idea that violence at youth sports is more uncommon than believed mostly because the media reports all of the incidents making it seem like there are more than there really is.

http://www.sirc.org/publik/fvexec.html#_VPID_7

This site looks at the various causes of football violence. It doesn’t do a very good job of backing up the information without bias, but does throw out some interesting ideas with the media and discusses how the violence has evolved over the years while also discussing race’s role in the violence.