Big-time college sports embodies the ideals of amateurism and provides an important complement to university education. Or so its apologists would have us believe. As Andrew Zimbalist shows in this unprecedented analysis, college sports is really a massively commercialized industry based on activities that are often irrelevant and even harmful to education. Zimbalist combines groundbreaking empirical research and a talent for storytelling to provide a firm, factual basis for the many arguments that currently rage about the goals, history, structure, incentive system, and legal architecture of college sports. He paints a picture of a system in desperate need of reform and presents bold recommendations to chart a more sensible future. Zimbalist begins by showing that today's problems are nothing new--that schools have been consumed for more than a century by debates about cheating, commercialism, and the erosion of academic standards.
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Author: Zimbalist, Andrew S.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports
Pages: 00256 (MicrosoftReader.lit) / 00256 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2001-02-15
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780691009551
Lib Category: Management
Lib Category: College sports
Category: Sports & Recreation : General
Category: Education : Philosophy & Social Aspects