Intercollegiate athletics, inc.: how big-time college sports cheat students, taxpayers, and academics
James T. Bennett
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020
- Copyright:
- ©2020
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- Summary:
- "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. 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."-- [Provided by publisher]
- Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- From brutal gentlemen amateurs to "student-athletes" on the payroll : the development of intercollegiate sports
- Stopping football in its tracks - or getting run over
- Athletic fees rout hapless students : the college sports scandal that never makes the headlines
- Money changes everything
- Athletics : the best boost academics ever had?
- "A game for every girl and a girl for every game?" : a brief look at how women's sports lost their virtue and became carbon copies of the male game
- Reform - or renewal?
- Author/Creator:
- Bennett, James T. , author
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
- Other Related Resources:
- Online version: Intercollegiate athletics, Inc. [by Bennett, J.T.] (Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020 — ISBN 9780429331138; LCCN 2019032141)
- Subjects:
- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages ; 24 cm
- Call Numbers:
- GV351 .B46 2020
- ISBNs:
- 9780367353889 (paperback)
0367353881 (paperback)
9780367353872 (hardcover)
0367353873 (hardcover)
9780429331138 (electronic book) [Invalid] - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2019032140
- OCLC Numbers:
- 1111637885