The Madness in Sports
Author | : Arnold R. Beisser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Social psychology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Arnold R. Beisser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Social psychology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arnold R. Beisser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Social psychology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gerald S. Gurney |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2016-12-13 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0815730039 |
A critical look at the tension between the larger role of the university and the commercialization of college sports Unwinding Madness is the most comprehensive examination to date of how the NCAA has lost its way in the governance of intercollegiate athletics—and why it is incapable of achieving reform and must be replaced. The NCAA has placed commercial success above its responsibilities to protect the academic primacy, health and well-being of college athletes and fallen into an educational, ethical, and economic crisis. As long as intercollegiate athletics reside in the higher education environment, these programs must be academically compatible with their larger institutions, subordinate to their educational mission, and defensible from a not-for-profit organizational standpoint. The issue has never been a matter of whether intercollegiate athletics belongs in higher education as an extracurricular offering. Rather, the perennial challenge has been how these programs have been governed and conducted. The authors propose detailed solutions, starting with the creation of a new national governance organization to replace the NCAA. At the college level, these proposals will not diminish the revenue production capacity of sports programs but will restore academic integrity to the enterprise, provide fairer treatment of college athletes with better health protections, and restore the rights and freedoms of athletes, which have been taken away by a professionalized athletics mentality that controls the cost of its athlete labor force and overpays coaches and athletic directors. Unwinding Madness recognizes that there is no easy fix to the problems now facing college athletics. But the book does offer common sense, doable solutions that respect the rights of athletes, protects their health and well-being while delivering on the promise of a bona fide educational degree program.
Author | : Arnold R. Beisser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 1977-01-01 |
Genre | : .Sports |
ISBN | : 9780913486832 |
Author | : Eddie Einhorn |
Publisher | : Triumph Books (IL) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Basketball |
ISBN | : 9781572438095 |
Presents a look at how the NCAA basketball tournament became one of the most popular sporting events in America, providing the first-hand accounts of some of the sports greatest players and coaches.
Author | : Tom Hager |
Publisher | : MVP Books |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2012-10-21 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1610586689 |
Every March, millions of Americans have their minds fixated on one thing: the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. From bracket pools in offices worldwide to students on campuses in all corners of the nation, “March Madness” takes the country by storm. From the “First Four” to the Final Four, collegiate heavyweights such as Duke and North Carolina, Kansas and Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan, Texas and UCLA mix it up with Cinderella underdogs such as VCU, George Mason, and Penn, reminding the world that anything is possible. The magic of the tournament and the purity of the amateur game keep fans coming back year after year. From the birth of the tournament in 1939 to the most recent on-court drama, The Ultimate Book of March Madness explores the stories—both the legendary and the forgotten—behind each year’s tournament, and author Tom Hager selects the 100 greatest games from tournament history. With insight from dozens of players and coaches, this book reveals the tension, strategy, and even the behind-the-scenes humor of the tournament’s history. Featuring a unique blend of storytelling, quotes, vintage photographs, and game descriptions, The Ultimate Book of March Madness provides the average hoops fan with a deeper understanding of the history of the Final Four, while providing true fanatics with memorable and amazing stories they’ve never heard before.
Author | : John Feinstein |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 537 |
Release | : 2014-05-27 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0316378089 |
It's the book in which America's favorite sportswriter returns to the arena of his most successful bestseller, A Season on the Brink. It's the book that takes us inside the intensely competitive Atlantic Coast Conference & paints a portrait of how college baskettball is coached & played at the highest level. It's the book that takes us onto the courts, into the locker rooms, & inside the high-pressure world of the talented coaches who have helped make the ACC's nine colleges - Duke, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Virginia, Maryland, Wake Forest, & Florida State - world-renowned for their championship basketball teams. The author's afterword to this edition will recap the ACC's current season & preview the 1998-99 rivalries.
Author | : Seth Davis |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2009-03-03 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0805088105 |
Davis recounts the dramatic story of how two legendary players--Earvin Magic Johnson and Larry Bird--burst on the scene in a 1979 NCAA championship that gave birth to modern basketball.
Author | : Janet Lever |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Soccer |
ISBN | : 9780881338430 |
Author | : Kurt Edward Kemper |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2020-08-10 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0252052145 |
Big money NCAA basketball had its origins in a many-sided conflict of visions and agendas. On one side stood large schools focused on a commercialized game that privileged wins and profits. Opposing them was a tenuous alliance of liberal arts colleges, historically black colleges, and regional state universities, and the competing interests of the NAIA, each with distinct interests of their own. Kurt Edward Kemper tells the dramatic story of the clashes that shook college basketball at mid-century—and how the repercussions continue to influence college sports to the present day. Taking readers inside the competing factions, he details why historically black colleges and regional schools came to embrace commercialization. As he shows, the NCAA's strategy of co-opting its opponents gave each group just enough just enough to play along—while the victory of the big-time athletics model handed the organization the power to seize control of college sports. An innovative history of an overlooked era, Before March Madness looks at how promises, power, and money laid the groundwork for an American sports institution.