@article{winemiller_love_stamm_2022, title={Recruiting Reporters’ Perceptions of Ethical Issues}, volume={8}, url={https://doi.org/10.1177/2167479520946683}, DOI={10.1177/2167479520946683}, abstractNote={ In the Internet era, a substantial online media industry dedicated to covering the recruitment of high school athletes to college sports programs has developed in the United States. The current study explored the perceptions of football recruiting reporters with respect to their ethical responsibilities and the issues they face in their jobs. In doing so, the study builds on the work of Yanity and Edmondson, who explored the perceptions of journalists from other fields about ethical dilemmas they perceived as relevant in the budding high school football recruiting media industry. Through analysis of interviews with 15 people who have worked as reporters for major recruiting websites such as Rivals.com or 247Sports.com , we contend that several key ethical issues must be addressed by online college football and basketball recruiting outlets to protect athletes and to promote responsible journalism. These issues include (a) incessant contact of high school athletes by media members; (b) lack of institutional oversight by parent companies over school-specific sites; (c) ambiguous methodology behind player evaluation; (d) conflicts of interest inherent in recruiting media outlets hosting evaluation camps; and (e) lack of institutional protection from unethical pressures by members of college athletic departments. }, journal={Communication & Sport}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={Winemiller, Sam and Love, Adam and Stamm, Jason}, year={2022}, month={Jun}, pages={216747952094668} }
 @article{smith_winemiller_welch_2021, title={Colin Kaepernick, Tim Tebow, and the magic of comparison: muscular Christianity as white racial frame}, url={https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2023.2255702}, DOI={10.1080/14755610.2023.2255702}, abstractNote={ABSTRACT This article explores how muscular Christianity operates as a media frame for athlete religiosity and how the muscular Christian frame contributes to essentialist and racialised stereotypes about Black and white athletes, which in turn reinforce ‘common-sense’ assumptions around black and white religion that perpetuate and transmit white supremacist values. We present these findings starting from a critical comparative media analysis of athlete religiosity, articulated with respect to Colin Kaepernick and Tim Tebow. Our analysis produced two primary findings. First, while both Kaepernick and Tebow were framed as ‘muscular Christians’ by news media, this framing was racialised, constituting both athletes within what Feagin termed a ‘White racial frame’ (2013, 14). Second, the comparative media sub-discourse of a Kaepernick/Tebow comparison itself functioned to extend the white racial frame by essentializing Kaepernick’s protest as ‘Black Christian progressive’ action and dichotomising this as necessary and compatible with conservative white evangelicalism. The underlying ideas about muscular Christianity in these media representations are not neutral. Presupposing whiteness, they obscure the active construction of a white, masculine, (evangelical) Protestant religiosity against which other representations are measured, sometimes explicitly, but more often implicitly. The article concludes with implications for understanding the cultural politics of Kaepernick and Tebow, adding to extant ‘cultural backlash’ explanations.}, journal={Culture and Religion}, author={Smith, Zachary T. and Winemiller, Samuel and Welch, Natalie}, year={2021}, month={Apr} }
 @inbook{whiteside_winemiller_2021, title={Reimagining the role of local sports journalism during the pandemic pause. }, url={https://www.peterlang.com/document/1140692}, booktitle={American sport in the shadow of a pandemic: Communicative insights}, publisher={Peter Lang}, author={Whiteside, E. and Winemiller, S.}, editor={Billings, A.C. and Wenner, L. and Hardin, M.Editors}, year={2021}, pages={3–16} }
 @article{love_winemiller_harrison_stamm_2021, title={“I Don’t Know How You Get Past That”: Racism and Stereotyping in College Football Recruiting Media}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2020-0189}, DOI={10.1123/ssj.2020-0189}, abstractNote={College football programs invest millions of dollars into recruiting top high school prospects. This recruiting process is covered extensively by reporters from sports media outlets. While the players being recruited are predominately Black, the sports media is disproportionately dominated by White men. In this context, the current study reports on data from interviews with 15 participants who work in the college football recruiting media industry. While some participants adopted a color-blind perspective dominated by a belief that racism no longer exists, most reporters expressed an awareness of racial stereotypes in the sports media and felt a need to address racial inequity. Such awareness presents an opportunity for anti-racist training that may help media members avoid racial stereotyping and address racism in the field.}, journal={Sociology of Sport Journal}, publisher={Human Kinetics}, author={Love, Adam and Winemiller, Sam and Harrison, Guy and Stamm, Jason}, year={2021}, pages={1–9} }
 @article{‘i don’t know if america would have picked me:’ athletic, national, and racial identities of the u.s. men’s kabaddi team_2019, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2019.1703682}, DOI={10.1080/17430437.2019.1703682}, abstractNote={Abstract Prior research efforts have investigated distinct athletic, national, and racial identities in athletes, but there remains a need to connect these bodies of knowledge. This study asks: how do athletes who belong to a racial minority in their country negotiate their racial, national, and athletic identities when representing their country in international competition? To explore possible answers, I analyzed oral history interviews with Black members of the U.S. Men’s Kabaddi Team about their experiences at the 2016 Kabaddi World Cup in Ahmedabad, India. This study provides insight into the experiences and perceptions of Black athletes representing the U.S. on a world stage during a period in which many Black Americans felt especially oppressed and threatened by structures of power in the U.S.}, journal={Sport in Society}, year={2019}, month={Dec} }