Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc.: How Big-Time College Sports Cheat Students, Taxpayers, and Academics

ISBN-13: 9780367353872 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 224 str.

James T. Bennett

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. From Brutal Gentlemen Amateurs To "Student-Athletes" On the Payroll: The Development Of Intercollegiate Sports  3. Stopping Football in Its Tracks—Or Getting Run Over  4. Athletic Fees Rout Hapless Students: The College Sports Scandal That Never Makes the Headlines  5. Money Changes Everything  6. Athletics: The Best Boost Academics Ever Had?  7. "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  8. Reform—Or Renewal?

O autorze

James T. Bennett is Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at George Mason University, USA, and a prolific author. His research interests focus on public policy, political economy, and labor economics.