Changing the Playbook: How Power, Profit, and Politics Transformed College Sports - Couverture souple

Chudacoff, Howard P

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252081323 ISBN 13 : 9780252081323

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2015

Synopsis

"In Changing the Playbook, Howard P. Chudacoff delves into the background and what-ifs surrounding seven defining moments that redefined college sports. These changes involved fundamental issues--race and gender, profit and power--that reflected societal tensions and, in many cases, remain pertinent today:

• the failed 1950 effort to pass a Sanity Code regulating payments to football players;
• the thorny racial integration of university sports programs;
• the boom in television money;
• the 1984 Supreme Court decision that settled who could control skyrocketing media revenues;
• Title IX's transformation of women's athletics;
• the cheating, eligibility, and recruitment scandals that tarnished college sports in the 1980s and 1990s;
• the ongoing controversy over paying student athletes a share of the enormous moneys harvested by schools and athletic departments.

A thought-provoking journey into the whos and whys of college sports history, Changing the Playbook reveals how the turning points of yesterday and today will impact tomorrow."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Howard P. Chudacoff is George L. Littlefield Professor of American History and Professor of Urban Studies at Brown University and a faculty representative to the NCAA. His books include Children at Play: An American History.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252081323
• ISBN 13: 9780252081323
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
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