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Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc. - How Big-Time College Sports Cheat Students, Taxpayers, and Academics (Paperback)
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Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc. - How Big-Time College Sports Cheat Students, Taxpayers, and Academics (Paperback)
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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. Including historical and contemporary
perspectives, the book traces the growth of intercollegiate sports
from largely student-run activities supervised by faculty to the
gargantuan, taxpayer-supported spectacles that now dominate many
public universities. It investigates the regressive student fees
that have helped subsidize big-time sports at public universities
and prop up chronically unprofitable athletic departments, as well
as the corrosive effects of athletics on the university's academic
enterprise. A review of the alleged salutary effects of massive
sports programs, such as spurring alumni donations and student
applications, reveals that such benefits are largely illusory, more
myth than real. The book also pays special attention to the often
prescient, if largely unsuccessful, opponents of these
developments, and considers the alternatives to big-time athletics,
from abolition to professionalization to club sports. 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.
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