I am a PhD student in the English department at Old Dominion University (and a lifelong Athletics fan), and I am conducting research on stadium relocation.\u00a0The idea from this project came out of being a long time Athletics fan and seeing how diverse the city of Oakland is compared to the city of Las Vegas got me wondering why a team would move. The more I looked into the debate the more I seemed to find about the importance of communities on professional sports. Ultimately, I decided to do my entire dissertation project on the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Specifically, by using the Oakland Athletics’ move to Las Vegas as a case study,\u00a0this research looks at the way relocation is discussed in professional sports and focuses on connections and disconnections between communities and teams\/leagues\/ownership.\u00a0The project has been approved by the Institutional Review Board at Old Dominion University (project #2187870-1). I can provide any approval documentation upon request. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am a PhD student in the English department at Old Dominion University (and a lifelong Athletics fan), and I am conducting research on stadium relocation.\u00a0The idea from this project came out of being a long time Athletics fan and seeing how diverse the city of Oakland is compared to the city of Las Vegas … Continue reading About this Project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27896,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/plova001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/plova001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/plova001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/plova001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/plova001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/plova001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/plova001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/plova001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}