Sport, Violence and Society by Kevin Young

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Notes

For a good account of this phenomenon, see Charles Murray's (2012) discussion of the decline of contemporary American male industriousness in Coming Apart.

According to investopedia.com the 2010 minimum WNBA salary was $35,190, while the maximum was $101,000 (Yuille 2010). Nobody is getting rich playing in the WNBA, but the minimum is far above the 2010 poverty threshold for a two-person household of $14,602 while the maximum in more than twice the 2010 median income in the United States (Poverty in the United States 2012; Cauchon and Hanse 2011). Perhaps WNBA players deserve more, but even so it seems dubious to label their compensation levels as a form of sport-related violence.