nvolved in sport playing? With television dollars creating inflation, both sides can become absurdly wealthy, but players often for only brief periods of time. The material reality is that one group labors and one group invests capital, and their interests conflict. The other obvious binary opposition in media sports distinguishes between playing and spectating. Classically, sports were heralded for all their benefits of health and fitness to participants. But in the twenties century, media have made vicarious access to sports the more prevalent and accessible form of involvement. This mediated form of involvement in sport eliminates the benefits for physical health and reduced them to psychic, emotional, and social benefits. While these benefits exist, they leave the possibility of fans leading an objectively passive and unhealthy life-style while, fantasizing themselves into a false self-image of action, vigor, and victory.Another distinction can be made between live attendance in the arena and media participating. Arena attendance carries with it an environment of crowds, expressive behavior of cheering and booing, and physical movement to and at the game. Media participation, however, isolates the fan from the event and its crowd. The two experiments are very different. Fans sometimes make efforts to combine them. One can find spectators in arenas with radio earplugs, binoculars, and television sets to add on the media experience. Another valuable distinction is clarification of differences between print and electronic forms of sports communication media. Electronic media allow instantaneous, real-time participation in a sport through television or radio. Print media allow delayed re-presentation of sports events and facts through newspapers, magazines, and books. In fact, the various media mutually support each other in sports coverage, and fans usually follow a mixture of electronic and print media.Different studies and analysis...
