The Sidney Effect: Competitive Youth Hockey and Fantasy Relationships
This thesis explores how a group of 17 male youth athletes, and their families, experience competitive hockey. Many of the youths seem to forge fantasy relationships with hockey celebrities, heroes, and stars -- e.g. Sidney Crosby -- emulating them with regard to the "best" attitudes, equ...
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4368 |