Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports
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Beteilige Person: Zimbalist, Andrew S. 1947- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press 2001
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400823079
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400823079
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400823079
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400823079
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400823079
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400823079
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400823079
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400823079
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Big-time college sports embodies the ideals of amateurism and provides an important complement to university education. Or so its apologists would have us believe. As Andrew Zimbalist shows in this unprecedented analysis, college sports is really a massively commercialized industry based on activities that are often irrelevant and even harmful to education. Zimbalist combines groundbreaking empirical research and a talent for storytelling to provide a firm, factual basis for the many arguments that currently rage about the goals, history, structure, incentive system, and legal architecture of
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (265 p.)
ISBN:9781400823079
DOI:10.1515/9781400823079