Idolizing Sports Celebrities: A Gateway to Psychopathology

Magazine and newspaper articles offer intimate details about sports celebrities’ lives (Lines, 2001). Similarly, non-sport organizations use sport-celebrity testimonials to increase the visibility of their ads and encourage favorable responses to their brands (Friedman, Santeramo, & Traina, 1978; Jones & Schumann, 2000; Jowdy & McDonald, 2002). ................
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