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  • Sport and the Neoliberal University

    Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy

    Series series The American Campus
    College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.The contributors to Sport and the Neoliberal University examine how intercollegiate athletics ... Leer más

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  • Women and Sport

    Continuing a Journey of Liberation and Celebration

    Women and Sport: Continuing a Journey of Liberation and Celebration focuses on women winning access to the playing field as well as the front office in sport. Readers will gain an understanding of how women have been involved in sport and physical activity, how they have struggled for widespread recognition and legitimacy in the eyes of many, and how they continue to carve out their role in ... Leer más

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  • The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes

    An Amateurism That Never Was

    A well-constructed and reasoned debunking of the mythology of amateurism in for-profit NCAA athleticsFor the last 60-plus-years, as the revenue-generating capacity of Power Five football and men's basketball has dramatically increased, NCAA Division I Power Five football and men's basketball players (college profit-athletes) have been economically exploited, their labor has been severely ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit Athletes

    An Amateurism That Never Was

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    A well-constructed and reasoned debunking of the mythology of amateurism in for-profit NCAA athleticsFor the last 60-plus-years, as the revenue-generating capacity of Power Five football and men's basketball has dramatically increased, NCAA Division I Power Five football and men's basketball players (college profit-athletes) have been economically exploited, their labor has been severely ... Leer más

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  • My Turn At Bat

    The decline and fall of the Montreal Expos. In 1969 the Montreal Expos played their first game. Thirty-two years later the team that once boasted baseball’s best farm system is nearly dead. In this book former Expos president Claude Brochu gets to the bottom of the Expos’ story. From his successful marketing career at Seagram’s Claude Brochu was thrust into the role of Expos president in 1986. ... Leer más

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  • Indentured

    The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA

    “How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won’t anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?”In the four years since Joe Nocera asked those questions in a controversial New York Times column, the National Collegiate Athletic Association ... Leer más

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  • Fair and Foul

    Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport

    Fair and Foul explores our love of sport, just as it reveals sport’s darker side—the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, gender bias, media grandstanding, and more. The sixth edition features a new chapter on mass media and sport, a revised introduction that lays out the two themes of the book with fresh examples, and a significantly revised chapter on ... Leer más

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  • Game Over

    How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down

    de Dave Zirin ...
    "Enlightening" essays on athletes, activism, and the important role sports plays in our society ( Publishers Weekly).Sportscaster Howard Cosell dubbed it "rule number one of the jockocracy": sports and politics just don't mix. But in truth, some of our most important debates about class, race, religion, sex, and the raw quest for political power are played out both on and off the field. From the ... Leer más

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  • Saturday Millionaires

    How Winning Football Builds Winning Colleges

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    Last year Football Bowl Subdivision college football programs produced over $1 billion in net revenue. Record-breaking television contracts were announced. Despite the enormous revenue, college football is in upheaval. Schools are accused of throwing their academic mission aside to fund their football teams. The media and fans are beating the drum for athletes to be paid. And the conferences are ... Leer más

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  • The Athletics Incubus: How College Sports Undermine College Education

    How College Sports Undermine College Education

    Previously published as part of HIGHER EDUCATION?A quarter of a million dollars. It's the going tab for four years at most top-tier colleges. But is it worth it?In this provocative work, the renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus make an incisive case that American college athletics—which originally came into the campus as an innocent form of recreation—have ... Leer más

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  • Unsportsmanlike Conduct

    Exploiting College Athletes

    de Walter Byers ...
    Walter Byers, who served as NCAA executive director from 1951 to 1987, was charged with the dual mission of keeping intercollegiate sports clean while generating millions of dollars each year as income for the colleges. Here Byers exposes, as only he can, the history and present-day state of college athletics: monetary gifts, questionable academic standards, advertising endorsements, legal battles ... Leer más

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  • Business the NHL Way

    Lessons from the Fastest Game on Ice

    The National Hockey League is at its apex in terms of its business success. Even a global pandemic could not slow it down. The league generates more than $5 billion annually, its revenues and media deals continue to grow, and its properties are increasing in value, innovation, and quantity. More clubs are profitable than are not, and the game of hockey is expanding globally.Business the NHL Way ... Leer más

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