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College Sports Inc.

Author : Frank P. Jozsa Jr.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461449693
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book College Sports Inc. written by Frank P. Jozsa Jr. and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several decades in America, athletic programs in colleges and universities received financial support and resources primarily from their respective schools and such sources as alumni and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). More recently, however, college coaches assigned to athletic departments and the presidents and marketing or public relations officials of schools organize, initiate, and participate in fund-raising campaigns and thus obtain a portion of revenue for their sports programs from local, regional and national businesses, and from other private donors, groups, and organizations. Because of this inflow of assets and financial capital, intercollegiate athletic budgets and types of sports expanded and in turn, these programs became increasingly important, popular, and reputable as revenue and cost centers within American schools of higher education.

College Sports Inc

Author : Springer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781461449706
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book College Sports Inc written by Springer and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc.

Author : James T. Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000737012
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc. written by James T. Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc. examines the corrupting influence and damaging financial effects of big-time intercollegiate athletics, especially football and to a lesser extent basketball, on American higher education. Including historical and contemporary perspectives, the book traces the growth of intercollegiate sports from largely student-run activities supervised by faculty to the gargantuan, taxpayer-supported spectacles that now dominate many public universities. It investigates the regressive student fees that have helped subsidize big-time sports at public universities and prop up chronically unprofitable athletic departments, as well as the corrosive effects of athletics on the university’s academic enterprise. A review of the alleged salutary effects of massive sports programs, such as spurring alumni donations and student applications, reveals that such benefits are largely illusory, more myth than real. The book also pays special attention to the often prescient, if largely unsuccessful, opponents of these developments, and considers the alternatives to big-time athletics, from abolition to professionalization to club sports. Students, scholars, sports fans, and those interested in learning how big-time football and basketball have cast such an enormous—and often baleful—shadow upon American colleges and universities will profit from this provocative and engagingly written book.

Sports and Freedom

Author : Ronald A. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195362187
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Sports and Freedom written by Ronald A. Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990-12-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps more than any other two colleges, Harvard and Yale gave form to American intercollegiate athletics--a form that was inspired by the Oxford-Cambridge rivalry overseas, and that was imitated by colleges and universities throughout the United States. Focusing on the influence of these prestigious eastern institutions, this fascinating study traces the origins and development of intercollegiate athletics in America from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Smith begins with an historical overview of intercollegiate athletics and details the evolution of individual sports--crew, baseball, track and field, and especially football. Then, skillfully setting various sports events in their broader social and cultural contexts, Smith goes on to discuss many important issues that are still relevant today: student-faculty competition for institutional athletic control; the impact of the professional coach on big-time athletics; the false concept of amateurism in college athletics; and controversies over eligibility rules. He also reveals how the debates over brutality and ethics created the need for a central organizing body, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which still runs college sports today. Sprinkled throughout with spicy sports anecdotes, from the Thanksgiving Day Princeton-Yale football game that drew record crowds in the 1890s to a meeting with President Theodore Roosevelt on football violence, this lively, in-depth investigation will appeal to serious sports buffs as well as to anyone interested in American social and cultural history.

Beer and Circus

Author : Murray Sperber
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 142993669X
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Beer and Circus written by Murray Sperber and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beer and Circus presents a no-holds-barred examination of the troubled relationship between college sports and higher education from a leading authority on the subject. Murray Sperber turns common perceptions about big-time college athletics inside out. He shows, for instance, that contrary to popular belief the money coming in to universities from sports programs never makes it to academic departments and rarely even covers the expense of maintaining athletic programs. The bigger and more prominent the sports program, the more money it siphons away from academics. Sperber chronicles the growth of the university system, the development of undergraduate subcultures, and the rising importance of sports. He reveals television's ever more blatant corporate sponsorship conflicts and describes a peculiar phenomenon he calls the "Flutie Factor"--the surge in enrollments that always follows a school's appearance on national television, a response that has little to do with academic concerns. Sperber's profound re-evaluation of college sports comes straight out of today's headlines and opens our eyes to a generation of students caught in a web of greed and corruption, deprived of the education they deserve. Sperber presents a devastating critique, not only of higher education but of national culture and values. Beer and Circus is a must-read for all students and parents, educators and policy makers.

Diversity and Social Justice in College Sports

Author : Dana D. Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Diversity and Social Justice in College Sports written by Dana D. Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of the well-researched chapters in this comprehensive volume makes a singular contribution to understanding the complexities of diversity and social justice in college sports. Chapters are grouped into sections that address major components: Historical Analysis; Social Justice and Cultural Concerns; African American Coaching and Other Leadership Opportunities; Media, Media Images, and Stereotyping; Intersection of Race, Sport, and Law; Sport Administration/Management: Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender; Looking Toward the Future. This volume makes a valuable contribution to the literature on American sports.

Contemporary Issues in Sociology of Sport

Author : Andrew Yiannakis
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 9780736037105
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Sociology of Sport written by Andrew Yiannakis and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2001 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melnick, PhD, Contemporary Issues in Sociology of Sport includes: an exploration of topics and themes that have received limited attention in other sociology of sport texts but have been long-standing social concerns; a review of the attitudes toward female athletes and the anti-homosexual phobias present in sport; an in-depth look at the impoverishment of children's games in America; an overview of high school sport participation; a study of the challenges and benefits of the big-time collegiate sport experience; a critique of television's impact on sport and its portrayal of gender and race, and a review of sport and globalization. Unit I provides the reader with a historical background on the development of sociology of sport and addresses several critical issues about the relationship between sociology, physical education, and sociology of sport.

Ethics and College Sports

Author : Peter A. French
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742512726
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Ethics and College Sports written by Peter A. French and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics and College Sports is a careful analysis of the root problems in intercollegiate athletics in American universities. It examines the prevalent myths that are regularly used to justify the inclusion of intercollegiate athletics, and all of the abuses and scandals it has brought to university campuses, from a moral perspective. In this book, the myths that amateurism is morally desirable, that sports brings good moral character, and that the elite sports programs raise significant sums of money to support university budgets are dissected. The actual impact of the movement to provide gender equity in athletics programs on campus is discussed and a defensible justification for intercollegiate athletics is offered.

College Sports Traditions

Author : Stan Beck
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810891212
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book College Sports Traditions written by Stan Beck and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year since 1961, football and basketball players at Middlebury College in Vermont pick up their wheelchair-bound fan, Butch, and bring him to the stadium sidelines to watch their games. At John Brown University, the volleyball team distributes candy to fans before each match. For years, fans attending a University of Maryland football game rubbed the bronze statue of their terrapin mascot, Testudo. Traditions like these are visible statements of school loyalty, and they are part of why college sports are unforgettable. College Sports Traditions: Picking Up Butch, Silent Night, and Hundreds of Others details not only the well-known traditions of major universities, but also the obscure customs of smaller schools. Approximately 1,200 traditions are captured, covering almost every college sport. It depicts such traditions as The Ohio State University’s “Script Ohio,” University of Kansas’s “Waving the Wheat,” Linfield College’s “End Zone Couches,” and even a list of traditions that involve streaking. The wide variety of traditions covered in this book are grouped thematically, including: Before the game During the game After a score After the game Mascot traditions Preseason traditions Traditions probably not university sanctioned Rivalries Yells, cheers, and chants From the crazy and eccentric to the touching and meaningful, these traditions connect fans and athletes across generations. The first of its kind, this comprehensive volume encompasses hundreds of universities and colleges throughout the U.S. Featuring 75 photos that bring many of these events to life, College Sports Traditions will be an entertaining read for every sports fan.

Departures

Author : Randall Popken
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780205162499
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Departures written by Randall Popken and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *HA02, Departures: A Reader for Developing Writers, Randall L. Popken, Alice A. Newsome, M. Lanell Gonzales(all of Tarleton State University), H6249-0, 350 pp., 6 x 9, 0-205-16249-5, paperbound, 1995, $16.50nk, October*/Departures offers developmental writers a fresh, unique anthology to complement their writing courses. The readings are drawn exclusively from popular media and are chosen for their ability to interest students. Departures examines questions of immediate importance in modern American life, choosing topics that also have academic significance.

Beer and Circus

Author : Murray Sperber
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805038647
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Beer and Circus written by Murray Sperber and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-09-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sperber issues a no-holds-barred examination of how big-time college sports is crippling undergraduate education. He argues that money coming into universities from sports programs never makes it to academic departments and barely covers the expense of maintaining athletic programs.

Onward to Victory

Author : Murray Sperber
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805038655
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Onward to Victory written by Murray Sperber and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-11-30 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of "Shake Down the Thunder" vividly recreates the world of postwar America and the age of big-time college sports in a brilliantly detailed work of social history for anyone interested in the development of modern American culture. 24 photos.

Title IX and Intercollegiate Athletics

Author : Valerie McMurtie Bonnette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976213000
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Title IX and Intercollegiate Athletics written by Valerie McMurtie Bonnette and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-evaluation manual and desk reference for colleges and universities, this manual enables education officials to evaluate accurately their intercollegiate athletics programs for compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in education programs. This 850 page manual explains the Title IX policies, explains how to identify the nature and extent of compliance concerns and how to remedy those concerns. The manual includes the full text and summaries of the major documents requiring nondiscrimination on the basis of sex, illustrates data collection and analysis for sample programs, and includes a workbook with charts, instructions, questionnaires, and facilities checklists.

Onward to Victory

Author : Murray Sperber
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 146687645X
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Onward to Victory written by Murray Sperber and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Shake Down the Thunder, Murray Sperber's Onward to Victory is a brilliant, detailed, and engrossing work of social history for not only sports fans, but anyone interested in the development of modern American culture. With the 1940 release of the classic film Knute Rockne, All American, the myth of the hero scholar-athlete was born, and with it came the age of big-time college sports in America. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including press accounts, letters and diaries, historical papers, and interviews with many who were there, Murray Sperber recounts how the myths created by Hollywood studios were embellished and codified by a hungry press, infiltrating the collective unconscious with epic stories of players, coaches, and teams. As college sports became a mainstay of popular entertainment, they also were fertile ground for near-fatal scandal, ultimately giving rise to the modern NCAA. Sperber vividly re-creates the world of postwar America, with its all-powerful radiomen, its lurid press, its growing prosperity, and, of course, the infancy of television

College Sports Inc

Author : Murray A. Sperber
Publisher : Henry Holt & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780805014457
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book College Sports Inc written by Murray A. Sperber and published by Henry Holt & Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With surprisingly new details about famous coaches and athletes and examples from basketball, football, and non-revenue sports such as swimming and soccer, this thorough investigation identifies the time bomb planted within American higher education and offers a plan for defusing it.

Sports, Inc.

Author : Phil Schaaf
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615921923
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Sports, Inc. written by Phil Schaaf and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For students interested in a career in sports entertainment or professionals already in the business, "Sports, Inc." has the latest information on one of the most dynamic and growing areas of the entertainment industry today. Illustrations.

Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University

Author : James J. Duderstadt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472021915
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University written by James J. Duderstadt and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of domination on campus, college sports' supremacy has begun to weaken. "Enough, already!" detractors cry. College is about learning, not chasing a ball around to the whir of TV cameras. In Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University James Duderstadt agrees, taking the view that the increased commercialization of intercollegiate athletics endangers our universities and their primary goal, academics. Calling it a "corrosive example of entertainment culture" during an interview with ESPN's Bob Ley, Duderstadt suggested that college basketball, for example, "imposes on the university an alien set of values, a culture that really is not conducive to the educational mission of university." Duderstadt is part of a growing controversy. Recently, as reported in The New York Times, an alliance between university professors and college boards of trustees formed in reaction to the growth of college sports; it's the first organization with enough clout to challenge the culture of big-time university athletics. This book is certainly part of that challenge, and is sure to influence this debate today and in the years to come. James J. Duderstadt is President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering, University of Michigan.