College Sports Inc

Author : Frank P. Jozsa Jr.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461449690

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College Sports Inc. by Frank P. Jozsa Jr. Pdf

​For several decades in America, athletic programs in colleges and universities received financial support and resources primarily from their respective schools and such sources as alumni and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). More recently, however, college coaches assigned to athletic departments and the presidents and marketing or public relations officials of schools organize, initiate, and participate in fund-raising campaigns and thus obtain a portion of revenue for their sports programs from local, regional and national businesses, and from other private donors, groups, and organizations. Because of this inflow of assets and financial capital, intercollegiate athletic budgets and types of sports expanded and in turn, these programs became increasingly important, popular, and reputable as revenue and cost centers within American schools of higher education.​​

Author : Springer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1461449707

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College Sports Inc by Springer Pdf

Author : James T. Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000737011

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Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc. by James T. Bennett Pdf

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.

Author : Andrew Yiannakis,Merrill J. Melnick
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Sports
ISBN : 0736037101

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Contemporary Issues in Sociology of Sport by Andrew Yiannakis,Merrill J. Melnick Pdf

Melnick, PhD, Contemporary Issues in Sociology of Sport includes: an exploration of topics and themes that have received limited attention in other sociology of sport texts but have been long-standing social concerns; a review of the attitudes toward female athletes and the anti-homosexual phobias present in sport; an in-depth look at the impoverishment of children's games in America; an overview of high school sport participation; a study of the challenges and benefits of the big-time collegiate sport experience; a critique of television's impact on sport and its portrayal of gender and race, and a review of sport and globalization. Unit I provides the reader with a historical background on the development of sociology of sport and addresses several critical issues about the relationship between sociology, physical education, and sociology of sport.

Author : Randall Popken,Alice Newsome,Lanell Gonzales
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994-11
Category : College readers
ISBN : 0205162495

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Departures by Randall Popken,Alice Newsome,Lanell Gonzales Pdf

*HA02, Departures: A Reader for Developing Writers, Randall L. Popken, Alice A. Newsome, M. Lanell Gonzales(all of Tarleton State University), H6249-0, 350 pp., 6 x 9, 0-205-16249-5, paperbound, 1995, $16.50nk, October*/Departures offers developmental writers a fresh, unique anthology to complement their writing courses. The readings are drawn exclusively from popular media and are chosen for their ability to interest students. Departures examines questions of immediate importance in modern American life, choosing topics that also have academic significance.

Author : James J. Duderstadt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780472021918

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Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University by James J. Duderstadt Pdf

After decades of domination on campus, college sports' supremacy has begun to weaken. "Enough, already!" detractors cry. College is about learning, not chasing a ball around to the whir of TV cameras. In Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University James Duderstadt agrees, taking the view that the increased commercialization of intercollegiate athletics endangers our universities and their primary goal, academics. Calling it a "corrosive example of entertainment culture" during an interview with ESPN's Bob Ley, Duderstadt suggested that college basketball, for example, "imposes on the university an alien set of values, a culture that really is not conducive to the educational mission of university." Duderstadt is part of a growing controversy. Recently, as reported in The New York Times, an alliance between university professors and college boards of trustees formed in reaction to the growth of college sports; it's the first organization with enough clout to challenge the culture of big-time university athletics. This book is certainly part of that challenge, and is sure to influence this debate today and in the years to come. James J. Duderstadt is President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering, University of Michigan.

Author : Donald G. Stein
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0813533740

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Buying in Or Selling Out? by Donald G. Stein Pdf

Annotation A collection of thought-provoking articles by educational leaders on the commercialization of the academy.

Author : Shaun R. Harper,Jamel K. Donnor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317569411

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Scandals in College Sports by Shaun R. Harper,Jamel K. Donnor Pdf

This timely book highlights the impact that sports have on institutions of higher education and guides college leaders and educators in informed discussions of policy and practice. Scandals in College Sports includes 21 classic and contemporary case studies and ethical dilemmas showcasing challenges that threatened the integrity and credibility of intercollegiate sports programs at a range of institutional types across the country. Cases cover NCAA policy violations and ethical dilemmas involving student-athletes, coaches, and other stakeholders, including scandals of academic misconduct, illegal recruiting practices, sexual assault, inappropriate sexual relationships, hazing, concussions, and point shaving. Each chapter author explores the details of the specific case, presents the dilemma in a broader sociocultural context, and ultimately offers an alternative ending to help guide future practice.

Author : John L. Fizel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780313051920

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Economics of College Sports by John L. Fizel Pdf

Operating behind a veil of amateurism, the NCAA and collegiate athletic departments oversee big business sports programs. These entities generate revenues comparable to professional sports, practice and play in facilities that rival those found in professional sports, and pay their top coaches salaries comparable to the salaries paid to coaches of professional sports teams. Athletes are courted with lavish stadiums, training facilities, and locker rooms. Customers are wooed with branded apparel, videos, logos, and advertisements. Business interests are captured with stadium billboards, electronic ads on scoreboards, sponsorship of bowl games, logos on uniforms, and exclusive apparel and equipment contracts. Where do, or should, these lucrative athletic ventures fit in the mission of higher education? To what extent is the central mission of creating an environment for learning and extending the frontiers of knowledge enhanced or limited by college sports? Are declarations by the NCAA to promote amateurism and competitive balance supportive of the university mission? Does the NCAA even follow its purported objectives? The Economics of College Sports contains both empirical and theoretical research to address these and related issues. Perhaps the most unique contributions focus on the interactions between legal and institutional aspects of the NCAA and their impact on the objectives and goals of university education; all of the contributions provide insights that will generate significant discussion about the policies necessary to sustain the vitality and integrity of the university education-sports coalition.

Author : Michael A. Leeds,Peter von Allmen,Victor A. Matheson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351684491

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The Economics of Sports by Michael A. Leeds,Peter von Allmen,Victor A. Matheson Pdf

The sports industry provides a seemingly endless set of examples from every area of microeconomics, giving students the opportunity to study economics in a context that holds their interest. Thoroughly updated to reflect the current sports landscape, The Economics of Sports introduces core economic concepts and theories and applies them to American and international sports. Updates for this sixth edition include: More coverage of international sports, including European football; A revised chapter on competitive balance, reflecting new techniques; A brand-new chapter on mega-events such as the Olympics and World Cup; New material on umpire bias; A completely redesigned chapter on amateur competition that focuses exclusively on intercollegiate sports. This chapter is also now modular, enabling instructors who wish to intersperse it with the other chapters to do so with greater ease. This accessible text is supported by a companion website which includes resources for students and instructors. It is the perfect text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on sports economics.

Author : Christian Gilde
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780739155936

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Higher Education by Christian Gilde Pdf

Higher Education: Open for Business addresses a problem in higher learning, which is newly recognized in the academic spotlight: the overcommercialization of higher education. The book asks that you, the reader, think about the following: Did you go to a Coke or Pepsi school? Do your children attend a Nike or Adidas school? Is the college in your town a Dell or Gateway campus? These questions should not be a primary concern for students, parents or faculty in an environment that has to allow students to freely focus on learning. But in a time of fiscal uncertainty, can higher education ignore the benefits of commercial ventures? It may seem foolish to do so. However, commercialism has gotten too close to certain aspects of academia such as the campus environment, classroom activities, academic research, and college sports. This disturbing encroachment of academic ground is addressed in Higher Education: Open for Business by a diverse host of authors who are closely involved in higher learning.

Author : Murray Sperber
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781429936699

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Beer and Circus by Murray Sperber Pdf

Beer and Circus presents a no-holds-barred examination of the troubled relationship between college sports and higher education from a leading authority on the subject. Murray Sperber turns common perceptions about big-time college athletics inside out. He shows, for instance, that contrary to popular belief the money coming in to universities from sports programs never makes it to academic departments and rarely even covers the expense of maintaining athletic programs. The bigger and more prominent the sports program, the more money it siphons away from academics. Sperber chronicles the growth of the university system, the development of undergraduate subcultures, and the rising importance of sports. He reveals television's ever more blatant corporate sponsorship conflicts and describes a peculiar phenomenon he calls the "Flutie Factor"--the surge in enrollments that always follows a school's appearance on national television, a response that has little to do with academic concerns. Sperber's profound re-evaluation of college sports comes straight out of today's headlines and opens our eyes to a generation of students caught in a web of greed and corruption, deprived of the education they deserve. Sperber presents a devastating critique, not only of higher education but of national culture and values. Beer and Circus is a must-read for all students and parents, educators and policy makers.

Author : Rodney Fort,Jason Winfree
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804790536

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15 Sports Myths and Why They’re Wrong by Rodney Fort,Jason Winfree Pdf

In 15 Sports Myths and Why They're Wrong, authors Rodney Fort and Jason Winfree apply sharp economic analysis to bust some of the most widespread urban legends about college and professional athletics. Each chapter takes apart a common misconception, showing how the assumptions behind it fail to add up. Fort and Winfree reveal how these myths perpetuate themselves and, ultimately, how they serve a handful of powerful parties—such as franchise owners, reporters, and players—at the expense of the larger community of sports fans. From the idea that team owners and managers are inept to the notion that revenue-generating college sports pay for athletics that don't attract fans (and their cash), 15 Sports Myths and Why They're Wrong strips down pervasive accounts of how our favorite games function, allowing us to look at them in a new, more informed way. Fort and Winfree argue that substituting the intuitive appeal of emotionally charged myths with rigorous, informed explanations weakens the power of these tall tales and their tight hold on the sports we love. Readers will emerge with a clearer picture of the forces at work within the sports world and a better understanding of why these myths matter—and are worthy of a takedown.

Author : Walter T. Champion Jr.,Richard T. Karcher,Lawrence S. Ruddell
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781284171303

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Sports Ethics for Sports Management Professionals by Walter T. Champion Jr.,Richard T. Karcher,Lawrence S. Ruddell Pdf

Sports Ethics for Sports Management Professionals provides students with the necessary tools to make ethical decisions in the sports management field. It presents several ethical models that the sports management professional can use as a guide to making ethical decisions. The text contains numerous case studies which allow students to apply the ethical decision-making process to a sports-related ethical dispute.

Author : Ryan King-White
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813587738

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Sport and the Neoliberal University by Ryan King-White Pdf

College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates. The contributors to Sport and the Neoliberal University examine how intercollegiate athletics became a contested terrain of public/private interests. They look at college sports from economic, social, legal, and cultural perspectives to cut through popular mythologies regarding intercollegiate athletics and to advocate for increased clarity about what is going on at a variety of campuses with regard to athletics. Focusing on current issues, including the NCAA, Title IX, recruitment of high school athletes, and the Penn State scandal, among others, Sport and the Neoliberal University shows the different ways institutions, individuals, and corporations are interacting with university athletics in ways that are profoundly shaped by neoliberal ideologies.