Intercollegiate athletics, Inc : how big-time college sports cheat students, taxpayers, and academics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bennett, James T. (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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
  • 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?