9780367353889-0367353881-Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc.: How Big-Time College Sports Cheat Students, Taxpayers, and Academics

Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc.: How Big-Time College Sports Cheat Students, Taxpayers, and Academics

ISBN-13: 9780367353889
ISBN-10: 0367353881
Edition: 1
Author: James Bennett
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 224 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780367353889
ISBN-10: 0367353881
Edition: 1
Author: James Bennett
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 224 pages

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Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc.: How Big-Time College Sports Cheat Students, Taxpayers, and Academics (ISBN-13: 9780367353889 and ISBN-10: 0367353881), written by authors James Bennett, was published by Routledge in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Sports & Entertainment (Industries) books. You can easily purchase or rent Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc.: How Big-Time College Sports Cheat Students, Taxpayers, and Academics (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Sports & Entertainment books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.58.

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Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc. examines the corrupting influence and damaging financial effects of big-time intercollegiate athletics, especially football and to a lesser extent basketball, on American higher education.

Including historical and contemporary perspectives, the book traces the growth of intercollegiate sports from largely student-run activities supervised by faculty to the gargantuan, taxpayer-supported spectacles that now dominate many public universities. It investigates the regressive student fees that have helped subsidize big-time sports at public universities and prop up chronically unprofitable athletic departments, as well as the corrosive effects of athletics on the university’s academic enterprise. A review of the alleged salutary effects of massive sports programs, such as spurring alumni donations and student applications, reveals that such benefits are largely illusory, more myth than real. The book also pays special attention to the often prescient, if largely unsuccessful, opponents of these developments, and considers the alternatives to big-time athletics, from abolition to professionalization to club sports.

Students, scholars, sports fans, and those interested in learning how big-time football and basketball have cast such an enormous―and often baleful―shadow upon American colleges and universities will profit from this provocative and engagingly written book.

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