Big-Time Sports in American Universities
ISBN: 9781107004344 | 1107004349
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 3/7/2011
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This book shows that big-time sports has become an important part of what many American universities do and value.
For almost a century, big-time college sports has been a wildly popular but consistently problematic part of American higher education. The challenges it poses to traditional academic values have been recognized from the start, but they have grown more ominous in recent decades, as cable television has become ubiquitous, commercial opportunities have proliferated, and athletic budgets have ballooned. D... MORE
For almost a century, big-time college sports has been a wildly popular but consistently problematic part of American higher education. The challenges it poses to traditional academic values have been recognized from the start, but they have grown more ominous in recent decades, as cable television has become ubiquitous, commercial opportunities have proliferated, and athletic budgets have ballooned. D... MORE
| List of Figures | p. viii |
| List of Tables | p. x |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms | p. xvii |
| Commercial Sports as a University Function | |
| Strange Bedfellows | p. 3 |
| Priorities | p. 23 |
| The Bigness of ôBig Timeö | p. 43 |
| The Uses of Big-Time College Sports | |
| Consumer Good, Mass Obsession | p. 69 |
| Commercial Enterprise | p. 94 |
| Institution Builder | p. 125 |
| Beacon for Campus Culture | p. 152 |
| Reckoning | |
| Ends and Means | p. 177 |
| Prospects for Reform | p. 207 |
| Appendix | p. 223 |
| Notes | p. 249 |
| References | p. 293 |
| Index | p. 303 |
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