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Main Author: Barnes, John C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press 2020
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Abstract:In this thought-provoking new book, John C. Barnes examines the current state of commercial college athletics as a guide for potential administrators, coaches, regents, and others involved in collegiate athletic operations and decision-making
Book Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Ivory Towers: A Business Model -- Chapter 2. An Unstable Marriage: Academics in College Athletics -- Chapter 3. Students, Athletes, and Student Athletes -- Chapter 4. The Athlete, Not the Enterprise -- Chapter 5. The Doomsday Machine -- Chapter 6. Television Creates a Monster: NCAA's 1% -- Chapter 7. Some Are More Equal -- Epilogue: Days of Reckoning -- References -- Index
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Physical Description:1 online resource (251 pages)
ISBN:9780826361301