The article presents reports on the 8th Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) that was held in Edmonton, Alberta between November 4 and 7, 1987. The NASSS combined work and play at its annual conference for the second year in a row by meeting at the Fantasyland Hotel in the world's largest shopping center, the West Edmonton Mall. While many delegates enjoyed the recreational shopping; the indoor amusement and water parks and golf course; and an Edmonton Oilers ice hockey game in which Wayne Gretzky featured prominently; there was also a sense that, after meeting in Las Vegas last year, people had moved from the sublime to the ridiculous. The theme for the first day was "Sport and Social Deviance," and Jeffrey Goldstein provided the keynote address entitled "Sport, Violence and the Media." Jay Coakley presented a thoughtful response to this currently topical presentation. There were two theme sessions: the first concerned sport programs for special populations--visually impaired young people, young people in wheelchairs, and young native Canadians in isolated Northern communities; the second concerned aspects of violence in sport--boxing, the effects of viewing violence, and the history of violent spectatorship in soccer.