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AMERICAN DREAMING:
THE AUDACIOUS BID TO BRING PRO CRICKET TO THE USA
by
Aaron Lawton
__________________________________________________________________
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(SPECIALIZED JOURNALISM)
May 2013
Copyright 2013 Aaron Lawton
Object Description
| Title | American dreaming: the audacious bid to bring pro cricket to the USA |
| Author | Lawton, Aaron |
| Author email | alawton@usc.edu;aaronlawton85@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Specialized Journalism |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2013-05-01 |
| Date submitted | 2013-04-15 |
| Date approved | 2013-04-15 |
| Restricted until | 2013-04-15 |
| Date published | 2013-04-15 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Abrahamson, Alan Y. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Parks, Michael Durbin, Daniel T. |
| Abstract | In late 2010, a press conference was held in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles to announce a groundbreaking and unlikely partnership between New Zealand Cricket and the United States of America Cricket Association. At the time, officials outlined their audacious plans to join forces and launch a professional Twenty20 cricket league in the United States by the American summer of 2013. According to research, there are more than 15 million cricket fans in North America, many of them expatriates from the West Indies, the Asian subcontinent and England, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. This venture was aimed at catering not only to them but also the casual American sports fan. But in early 2013, Neil Maxwell, the chief executive of the cricket partnership, revealed his organization would be postponing its proposed league until the middle of 2014 after a number of major setbacks. This thesis explores the proposed venture through first-person interviews with many different stakeholders, both in the United States, New Zealand, Dubai and India. It also attempts to depict the current state of cricket in the United States and highlights the challenges confronting those who hope to introduce everyday Americans to what to continues to remain a very foreign sport. This story will be published across two consecutive weekend additions of the Sunday Star-Times in New Zealand in mid-2013. |
| Keyword | cricket; CHALLC; New Zealand Cricket; Twenty20; T20 |
| Language | English |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Lawton, Aaron |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-LawtonAaro-1549.pdf |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume7/etd-LawtonAaro-1549.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | AMERICAN DREAMING: THE AUDACIOUS BID TO BRING PRO CRICKET TO THE USA by Aaron Lawton __________________________________________________________________ A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (SPECIALIZED JOURNALISM) May 2013 Copyright 2013 Aaron Lawton |
