ESPN X Games: Commercialized Extreme Sports for the Masses

Paul M. Pedersen & Matthew L. Kelly

The Florida State University



ABSTRACT

For years, extreme sports had little to nothing in common with each other except for high risk, and an appeal to women and men from the ages of 12 to 34. Entertainment Sports Programming Network (ESPN), realizing this age group was a prime viewing audience, brought together several extreme sports and created yet another commercialized sporting spectacle. Since 1995, this television network has produced the Summer X Games. After these summer productions proved to be successful television and live spectator events, ESPN expanded into the winter extreme sports. The Winter X Games have been produced since 1997. This paper, which commences with the rise of extreme sports, is an historical and sociological analysis of the creation and growth of the ESPN X Games. While these commercialized adventure and extreme sporting events have had some......

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Title: Commercialised Extreme Sports
Approximate Word Count: 7069
Approximate Pages: 29 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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