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Cassidy's book is meticulously researched and firmly grounded in established theory and practice. ... Cassidy's research quantifies what many may have already suspected about differences in how male and female sports figures are treated in sports media and in particular how the coming-out stories of male and female athletes differ in quantity and perhaps quality. Thus, Sports Journalism and Women Athletes meaningfully expands previous analysis of news coverage of gay and lesbian athletes ... . (Michael Tsai, Biography, Vol. 45 (1), 2022)

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William P. Cassidy is Professor of Journalism at Northern Illinois University and the author of Sports Journalism and Coming Out Stories: Jason Collins and Michael Sam (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). His research has appeared in venues such as Communication & Sport, International Journal of Communication Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and Journal of Sports Media.

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