“When a girl joins the ball team, what is she afraid the boys will do?”….Soccer. The reading for today started out with this very joke taken from a book called Sports Riddles from 1989. This quote is a perfect example of some of the things that we will read about in the book Sports, Rhetoric and Gender. The purpose of todays reading was not only to go over the many subjects that will be discussed in depth in the book but to get our minds thinking about the issues to think about for later on. This reading is directed at women and men athletes or even someone who is picking up the book and wants to see what it is really about. Sport specific books are starting to grow amongst academics. There are “how-to’s”, biographies or even just simple statistics. I also found a huge concept of this reading very interesting. It was mentioned that Greek athletes have been our gods and that even today we still worship huge sports stars and spend crazy amounts of money on events and sell sports-related sponsorships. I believe that this shows how much our culture revolves around sports and athletic events. Sports serves as fantasies, a escape from work, provides relationships and entertainment.  This comment made in the book is very true and real for me. My life does include a very big amount of sports in all the different ways I mentioned. This article overall was very effective in showing people the main points discussed later on in the book.