College sports /

Where should America draw the line between professional and student athletes? This volume examines a variety of scandals and controversies in the college sports world, including admission scandals and the methods that recruiters and school administrators use to find, sign, and groom players. While s...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Grey House Publishing, Inc (Compiler)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, 2021.
Series:Reference shelf ; v. 93, no. 4.
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Table of Contents:
  • Student athletes and the college sports debate
  • Educational environments. Balancing sports and studies for college; Athletes for college athletes, concern about balancing sports, academics / Bryan Toporek
  • In scandal after scandal, NCAA takes fall for complicit colleges / Rick Eckstein
  • An "epidemic" of academic fraud /Jake New
  • Like college athletes, these high school players get an assist on academics / Stephen Sawchuck
  • NCAA punishes Missouri in blatant academic fraud case / Doug Lederman
  • In college sports, non-athletes suffer just as much as the stars on the field / Tom Joyce
  • Its naive to think college athletes have time for school / Jasmine Harris
  • Study : College athletes have better academic, life outcomes / Greta Anderson
  • The cost of college athletics. The hidden perks and expenses of collegiate sports ; The high but hidden cost of college sports / Jody Lipford and Jerry Slice
  • Pandemic hits college sports / Greta Anderson
  • College athletics win and lose big / Justin Touhey
  • Colleges are eliminating sports teams - and runners and golfers are paying more of a price than football or basketball players / Molly Ott and Janet Lawrence
  • Power Five colleges spend football, basketball revue on money-losing sports : research / Denise-Marie Ordway
  • The NCAA whiffed on esports : it's paying a price but can still learn a lesson / Ellen Zavian
  • As partnerships emerge, are college sports embracing betting sponsors? / Amanda Christovich
  • Lives on the line. Health risks to student athletes; Murphy takes on NCAA on college sports injuries / Ana Radelet
  • College sports - related injuries - United States, 2009-10 through 2013-14 academic years / Zachary Y. Kerr, Stephen W. Marshall, Thomas P. Dompier...et al.
  • Poor students more likely to play football, despite brain injury concerns / Amanda Morris and Michael Martin
  • College athletes show signs of possible heart injury after COVID-19 / Aimee Cunningham
  • College football on the brink : push to play undercut by virus outbreaks / Juan Perez Jr.
  • Access to athletics. Race and gender in collegiate athletics; "I signed my life away to rich white guys" : athletes on the racial dynamics of college sports / Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Derek Silva, and Johanna Mellis
  • Dangerous stereotypes stalk Black college athletes / Joseph Cooper
  • Gender equality in college sports doesn't have to mean separate / David Webber
  • NCAA takes s stand for inclusion as states target trans student-athletes : is it enough? / Dawn Ennis
  • NCAA warns state lawmakers against limiting trnasgender sports participation / Chuck Lindell
  • Transgender sports debate polarizes women's advocates / Kathleen Megan
  • The fight for transgender athletes' right to compete / Emilia Benton
  • Professionals and amateurs. The pay-for-play debate ; NCAA amateurism appears immune to COVID-19, despite tide in public support for paying athletes having turned / Chris Knoester
  • The man responsible for making March madness the moneymaking bonanza it is today / Rick Eckstein
  • How college sports turned into a corrupt mega-business / George Leef
  • Paying college athletes / Brianna Rauenzahn, Jamison Chung, and Aaron Kaufman
  • Paying college football players is only fair / Stephen L. Carter
  • An argument for not allowing college athletes to earn compensation / Mary Louise Kelley
  • Overtime is starting a basketball league for 16-to18-year-olds that pays at least $100,000 a year / Jabari Young
  • Supreme Court will hear NCAA case on college athlete pay; The case could upend the college sports business model / Leah Nylen and Juan Perez, Jr.
  • Harvard, local universities oppose college sports gambling in letter to state house / Michelle G. Kurilla and Ema R. Schumer
  • The NCAA faces a full court press / Leah Nylen, Juan Perez, Jr. and Julia Arciga
  • Supreme Court rules against restrictions on colleges offering educational perks to compensate student-athletes / Robert Barnes and Molly Hensley-Clancy.