{"id":915,"date":"2009-04-06T17:57:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T21:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=915"},"modified":"2009-04-06T18:05:27","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T22:05:27","slug":"in-the-news-college-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/in-the-news-college-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: College Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Week of April 6, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

News Item:<\/strong> March Madness is over. Now it\u2019s on to the Big Dance for the Michigan State Spartans, the UConn Huskies, the North Carolina Tar Heels, and the Villanova Wildcats. The 2009 NCAA Division I Men\u2019s Basketball champion will be crowned on April 6 in Detroit. Have some spare time before the final game tip-off? – check out some of these books on sports in higher education.<\/p>\n

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\nAir Ball: American Education’s Failed Experiment with Elite Athletics<\/strong><\/em>
\nBy John R. Gerdy. UP of Mississippi, 2006
\nCall Number: GV346 .G468 2006<\/a> (also available online via NetLibrary<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Athletics and Academe: An Anatomy of Abuses and a Prescription for Reform <\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Wilford S. Bailey and Taylor D. Littleton. Maxwell Macmillan, 1991
\nCall Number: GV351 .B34 1991<\/a><\/p>\n

Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports is Crippling Undergraduate Education<\/strong><\/em>
\nBy Murray Sperber. Henry Holt, 2000
\nCall Number: GV351 .S63 2000<\/a><\/p>\n


\nBeyond the Cheers: Race as Spectacle in College Sport <\/strong><\/em>
\nBy C. Richard King and Charles Fruehling Springwood. SUNY Press, 2001
\nCall Number: GV706.32 .K52 2001<\/a> (Also available online via NetLibrary<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Brawn Drain: Foreign Student-Athletes in American Universities<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy John R. Bale. U of Illinois Press, 1991
\nCall Number: GV351 .B35 1991<\/a><\/p>\n

The Character of American Higher Education and Intercollegiate Sport<\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Donald Chu. SUNY Press, 1989
\nCall Number: GV351 .C484 1989<\/a><\/p>\n

College Athletes for Hire: The Evolution and Legacy of the NCAA’s Amateur Myth
\n<\/strong><\/em>By Allen L. Sack and Ellen J. Staurowsky. Praeger, 1998
\nAvailable online via NetLibrary<\/a><\/p>\n

College Sports, Inc.: The Athletic Department Vs. the University <\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Murray Sperber. H. Holt, 1990
\nCall Number: GV351 .S64 1990<\/a><\/p>\n

Economics of College Sports <\/em>
\n<\/strong>Edited by John Fizel and Rodney Fort. Praeger, 2004
\nCall Number: GV350 .E36 2004<\/a> (Also available online via NetLibrary<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values
\n<\/strong><\/em>By James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen. Princeton UP, 2001
\nCall Number: GV351 .S48 2001<\/a><\/p>\n

Games Colleges Play: Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics<\/em>
\n<\/strong>By John R. Thelin. Johns Hopkins UP, 1994
\nCall Number: GV351 .T43 1994<\/a> (Also at Jupiter)<\/p>\n

The Hundred Yard Lie: The Corruption of College Football and What We Can Do to Stop It
\n<\/strong><\/em>By Rick Telander. U of Illinois P, 1996
\nCall Number: GV959 .T44 1996<\/a><\/p>\n

Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University: A University President’s Perspective<\/em>
\n<\/strong>By James J. Duderstadt. U of Michigan Press, 2000
\nCall Number: GV351 .D83 2000<\/a><\/p>\n

Major Violation: The Unbalanced Priorities in Athletics and Academics<\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Gary D. Funk. Leisure Press, 1991
\nCall Number: GV351 .F86 1991<\/a><\/p>\n

New Game Plan for College Sport
\n<\/strong><\/em>Edited by Richard E. Lapchick. Praeger, 2006
\nCall Number: GV351 .N48 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

Play-by-Play Radio, Television, and Big-Time College Sport<\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Ronald A. Smith. Johns Hopkins UP, 2001
\nCall Number: Available online via NetLibrary<\/a><\/p>\n

The Rules of the Game: Ethics in College Sport<\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Richard E. Lapchick and John Brooks Slaughter. Macmillan, 1989
\nCall Number: GV351 .R85 1989<\/a><\/p>\n

Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports
\n<\/strong><\/em>By Andrew Zimbalist. Princeton UP, 1999
\nCall Number: GV351 .Z56 1999<\/a> (Also available online via NetLibrary<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting College Athletes
\n<\/strong><\/em>By Walter Byers and Charles Hammer. U of Michigan Press, 1995
\nCall Number: GV351 .B94 1995<\/a><\/p>\n

Unsportsmanlike Conduct: The National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Business of College Football<\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Paul R. Lawrence. Praeger, 1987
\nCall Number: GV351 .L38 1987<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Week of April 6, 2009 News Item: March Madness is over. Now it\u2019s on to the Big Dance for the Michigan State Spartans, the UConn Huskies, the North Carolina Tar Heels, and the Villanova Wildcats. The 2009 NCAA Division I Men\u2019s Basketball champion will be crowned on April 6 in Detroit. Have some spare time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[144,145,143,146],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-in-the-library","category-in-the-news","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-football"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}