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• The entertainment product
• An inauspicious beginning
• Who's really the BCS champion?
• Money madness
• Mud rooms and electron microscopes
• How much does that stadium really cost?
• Coaches cash in, too
• A boost up
• Breakin' all the rules
• The NCAA : cartel or mafia?
• The kids.

In Varsity Green, Mark Yost cuts through cliches and common misconceptions to take a hard-eyed look at the current state of college athletics. He takes readers behind the scenes of the conspicuous and high-revenue business of college sports in order to dissect the enormous television revenues, merchandising rights, bowl game payoffs, sneaker contracts, and endorsement deals that often pay state university coaches more than the college president, or even the governor. Money in college sports is nothing new. But readers will be amazed at the alarming depth and breadth of influence, both financial and otherwise, that college sports has within our culture. Readers will learn how academic institutions capitalize on the success of their athletic programs, and what role sports-based revenues play across campus, from the training room to the science lab. Yost pays particular attention to the climate that big-money athletics has created over the past decade, as both the NCAA's March Madness and the Bowl Championship Series have become multi-billion dollar businesses. This analysis goes well beyond campus, showing how the corrupting influences that drive college athletics today have affected every aspect of youth sports, and have seeped into our communities in ways that we would not otherwise suspect. This book is not only for the players, policymakers, and other insiders who are affected by the changing economics of college athletics; it is a must-read for any sports fan who engages with the NCAA and deserves to see the business behind the game.
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• Part I. Hail to the Victors;
• 1. Introduction;
• 2. Go Blue;
• 3. A University President's Perspective; Part II. How Do Things Really Work?;
• 4. The Evolution of College Sports;
• 5. University 101;
• 6. The Governance of Intercollegiate Athletics;
• 7. Financing College Athletics; Part III. Cracks in the Facade;
• 8. The Commercialization of College Sports;
• 9. The Student-Athlete;
• 10. Integrity;
• 11. Institutional Control; Part IV. Tilting at Windmills;
• 12. Back to Basics;
• 13. Roads to Reform;
• 14. Reform or Extinction?; Epilogue; Notes; Index

A former Big Ten university president argues that the increased commercialization of college sports endangers our universities' primary goal.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. Commercialization, College Sports, and the Athletic Trap2. The Intercollegiate Golden Triangle3. The Business of College Sports4. The Arms Race, Inequalities, and the Pressures of the College Sports Business5. Deviance, Corruption, and Scandals in College Sports6. Control and Reform in Big-Time College Sports7. Reforming College SportsEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex.
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The unrivaled amount of cash poured into the college athletic system has made sports programs breeding grounds for corruption while diverting crucial resources from the academic mission of universities. Like money in Washington politics, the influence bought by a complex set of self-interested actors seriously undermines movement toward reform while trapping universities in a cycle of escalating competition. Longtime sport sociologist Howard L. Nixon II approaches the issue from the perspective of college presidents-how they are seduced by prestige or pressured by economics into building programs that move schools toward a commercial model of athletics. Nixon situates his analysis in the context of what he calls "the intercollegiate golden triangle, " a powerful social network of athletic, media, and private corporate commercial interests. This network lures presidents and other university leaders into an athletic arms race with promises of institutional enhancements, increased enrollments, better student morale, improved alumni loyalty, more financial contributions, and higher prestige. These promises can cloud the judgment of college presidents and governing boards, entangling them in an athletic trap that restricts their influence. Unable to control spending, inequalities, and deviance within commercialized athletic programs, universities are ensnared in financial, political, and social obligations that are difficult to sustain-or escape. Nixon clarifies the structure of this trap, describes how higher education institutions fall into it, and explores what it means for institutions and presidents caught in it. This timely analysis also has relevance to the debates about the role of the NCAA and ongoing reform efforts in college sports. The Athletic Trap will be of interest to university presidents, board members, and administrators, sport sociologists concerned with the balance of power between academics and athletics, and anyone else with a serious interest in college sports and its future.
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• Cover; Contents; Preface; Prologue; 1 The Crisis in College Sports, 1951; 2 The Founding of the ACC; 3 The Man Who Made ACC Basketball; 4 A Championship Won, A Classic Lost; 5 The Big Four; 6 The Revolt of the Also- Rans; 7 The Integration of ACC Basketball; 8 "College Basketball's Strongest League"; 9 The 800 Rule & the Departure of South Carolina; Notes; Essay on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

Since the inception of the Atlantic Coast Conference, intense rivalries, legendary coaches, gifted players, and fervent fans have come to define the league's basketball history. In ACC Basketball, J. Samuel Walker traces the traditions and the dramatic changes that occurred both on and off the court during the conference's rise to a preeminent position in college basketball between 1953 and 1972.Walker vividly re-creates the action of nail-biting games and the tensions of bitter recruiting battles without losing sight of the central off-court questions the league wrestled with during these two decades. As basketball became the ACC's foremost attraction, conference administrators sought to field winning teams while improving academic programs and preserving academic integrity. The ACC also adapted gradually to changes in the postwar South, including, most prominently, the struggle for racial justice during the 1960s. ACC Basketball is a lively, entertaining account of coaches' flair (and antics), players' artistry, a major point-shaving scandal, and the gradually more evenly matched struggle for dominance in one of college basketball's strongest conferences.
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• Student-controlled athletics and early reform
• Faculty, faculty athletic committees, and reform efforts
• Early interinstitutional reform efforts
• Presidents: promoters or reformers?
• Football, progressive reform, and the creation of the NCAA
• The NCAA: a faculty debating society for amateurism
• The 1920s and the Carnegie report on college athletics
• Individual presidential reform: Gates, Hutchins, and Bowman
• Presidential conference reform: the 1930s Graham plan failure
• The NCAA and the sanity code: a national reform gone wrong
• Ivy league presidential reform
• Scandals and the ace reform effort in the 1950s
• Lowly standards: chaos in the sports yards
• The Hanford Report, rejected reform, and Proposition 48
• Title IX and governmental reform in women's athletics
• African Americans, freshman eligibility, and forced reform
• Presidential control, minor reform, and the Knight commission
• NCAA reorganization, the board of presidents' reform, and the APR
• Faculty reform efforts: CARE, the Drake Group, and COIA
• The freshman rule: a nearly forgotten reform.

In an era when college football coaches frequently command higher salaries than university presidents, many call for reform to restore the balance between amateur athletics and the educational mission of schools. This book traces attempts at college athletics reform from 1855 through the early twenty-first century while analyzing the different roles played by students, faculty, conferences, university presidents, the NCAA, legislatures, and the Supreme Court. Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform also tackles critically important questions about eligibility, compensation, recruiting, sponsorship, and rules enforcement. Discussing reasons for reform--to combat corruption, to level the playing field, and to make sports more accessible to minorities and women--Ronald A. Smith candidly explains why attempts at change have often failed. Of interest to historians, athletic reformers, college administrators, NCAA officials, and sports journalists, this thoughtful book considers the difficulty in balancing the principles of amateurism with the need to draw income from sporting events.
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• COLLEGE SPORTS TRADITIONS; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Traditions before the Game; 2 Traditions during the Game; 3 Traditions after a Score; 4 Traditions after the 00:00's; 5 Annual Traditions; 6 Traditions Involving Bands/Music; 7 Entrance Traditions; 8 Traditions Reflecting the Culture of the University; 9 Fan-Related/Nickname Traditions; 10 Intramurals/Club Sports Traditions; 11 Traditions for a Good Cause; 12 Mascot Traditions; 13 Miscellaneous Traditions; 14 Patriotic Traditions; 15 Personal Traditions; 16 Preseason Traditions.

• 17 Traditions Probably Not University Sanctioned18 Rivalries/the Winners Get What?; 19 Venues; 20 Walks; 21 Yells, Cheers, and Chants ... Oh, My!; 22 My College Did What, First?; Bibliography; Index; About the Authors.

College sports fans number almost 175 million strong, and each has a loyalty to their team and the traditions they share. From the crazy and eccentric to the touching and meaningful, these traditions connect fans and athletes across generations. College Sports Traditions details not only the well-known traditions of major universities, but also the obscure customs of smaller schools. Approximately 1,000 traditions are captured in this volume, covering hundreds of universities and colleges and almost every college sport. Featuring 75 photos that bring many of these events to life, College Sports Traditions will be an entertaining read for every sports fan.
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• Part I. Commercial Sports as a University Function:
• 1. Strange bedfellows--
• 2. Priorities--
• 3. The bigness of 'big time'-- Part II. The Uses of Big-Time College Sports:
• 4. Consumer product, mass obsession--
• 5. Commercial enterprise--
• 6. Institution builder--
• 7. Beacon for campus culture-- Part III. Reckoning:
• 8. Ends and means--
• 9. Prospects for reform-- Appendices.
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For almost a century, big-time college sport has been a wildly popular but consistently problematic part of American higher education. The challenges it poses to traditional academic values have been recognized from the start, but they have grown more ominous in recent decades, as cable television has become ubiquitous, commercial opportunities have proliferated and athletic budgets have ballooned. Drawing on new research findings, this book takes a fresh look at the role of commercial sports in American universities. It shows that, rather than being the inconsequential student activity that universities often imply that it is, big-time sport has become a core function of the universities that engage in it. For this reason, the book takes this function seriously and presents evidence necessary for a constructive perspective about its value. Although big-time sport surely creates worrying conflicts in values, it also brings with it some surprising positive consequences.
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• List of Figures vii List of Ta61es xiii Prelude: Four Snapshots xv Preface xxv
• Chapter 1. The Institutionalization and Regulation of College Sports in Historical Perspective 1
• Chapter 2. The Admissions Game: Recruiting Male Athletes and the Implications of Selection 29
• Chapter 3. The College Game: Academic Outcomes for Men 59
• Chapter 4. Men's Lives after College: Advanced Study, Jobs, Earnings 87
• Chapter 5. The Development of Women's Athletic Programs 113
• Chapter 6. New Players: The Recruitment and Admission of Women Athletes 126
• Chapter 7. Women Athletes in College 141
• Chapter 8. Women's Lives after College: Advanced Study, Family, Jobs, Earnings 157
• Chapter 9. Leadership 182
• Chapter 10. Giving Back 205
• Chapter 11. The Financial Equation: Expenditures and Revenues 227
• Chapter 12. Key Empirical Findings 258
• Chapter 13. Taking Stock 268
• Chapter 14. Thinking Ahead: Impediments to Change and Proposed Directions 289 Appendix A: Scorecards 311 Appendix B: Supplementary Data 355 Notes 375 References 423 Index 431.
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The president of Williams College faces a firestorm for not allowing the women's lacrosse team to postpone exams to attend the playoffs. The University of Michigan loses $2.8 million on athletics despite averaging 110,000 fans at each home football game. Schools across the country struggle with the tradeoffs involved with recruiting athletes and updating facilities for dozens of varsity sports. Does increasing intensification of college sports support or detract from higher education's core mission? The authors introduce facts into a terrain overrun by emotions and enduring myths. Using the same database that informed "The Shape of the River", they analyse data on 90,000 students who attended thirty selective colleges and universities in the 1950s, 1970s, and 1990s. Drawing also on historical research and new information on giving and spending, the authors demonstrate how athletics influence the class composition and campus ethos of selective schools, as well as the messages that these institutions send to prospective students, their parents, and society at large. The authors show that athletic programs raise even more difficult questions of educational policy for small private colleges and highly selective universities than they do for big-time scholarship-granting schools. They discover that today's athletes, more so than their predecessors, enter college less academically well-prepared and with different goals and values than their classmates - differences that lead to different lives. They reveal than gender equity efforts have wrought large, sometimes unanticipated changes, and they show that the alumni appetite for winning teams is not - as schools often assume - insatiable. If a culprit emerges, it is the unquestioned spread of a changed athletic culture through the emulation of highly publicised teams by low-profile sports, of men's programs by women's, and of athletic powerhouses by small colleges. The authors celebrate the benefits of collegiate sports, while identifying the subtle ways in which athletic intensification can pull even prestigious institutions from their missions. By examining how athletes and other graduates view The Game of Life - and how colleges shape society's view of what its rules should be - the authors go far beyond sports. They tell us about higher education today: the ways in which colleges set policies, reinforce or neglect their core mission, and send signals about what matters.
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• Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Introduction;
• Chapter 1: Navigating through the Rules;
• Chapter 2: I'm Eligible, So why Take the SAT Again?;
• Chapter 3: College Coaches-What they Want;
• Chapter 4: Physically & marter;
• Chapter 5: Your Body as an Athletic Temple;
• Chapter 6: Tuck in your Shirt and Pull up your Socks;
• Chapter 7: Not a 48-hour Vacation: College Visits;
• Chapter 8: I'm in & ow What?;
• Chapter 9: When Do I Get a Day Off?;
• Chapter 10: The Rules are There to Protect You; Appendix: Resources; College Coaches' Biographies-Snapshot; About the Author; Back Cover.

Illustrating that there is a spot for everyone, this completely revised recruitment manual is a go-to guide for all high school students that dream of participating in college athletics. It addresses not only how to get recruited by top colleges and universities but also how to excel academically in both high school and college to ensure a successful career as a student-athlete. Offering insider information, this guidebook for getting scholarship money also provides tips for understanding the complicated NCAA recruiting rules, information on what colleges really want from athletes in their programs, and techniques for developing individual skills to transition successfully from high school to college athletics. Candid and insightful input from college athletics experts, college and high school counselors, and athletic trainers helps athletes achieve success in many areas of their life'including training, nutrition, and time management'catapulting these students beyond their peers both on and off the field.

• Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Part One: From Disorder to Order; 1 The Beginning of the Big Ten; 2 Michigan Withdraws from the Conference; 3 The Crisis over Amateurism; 4 The Conference and the War; Part Two: From Order to Disorder; 5 The Big Ten in the Golden Age of Sports; 6 The Commissioner and the Conference; 7 The Big Ten Stadiums; 8 Red Grange and the Lure of Professional Football; 9 The Conference at Work; 10 The True Spirit of the University; 11 The Carnegie Report; 12 The Big Ten Censures Iowa; 13 Cross Currents; 14 Closing Out Half a Century; Epilogue.

• Appendix 1: Conference Rules
• Appendix 2: Faculty Representatives; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Big Ten football fans pack gridiron cathedrals that hold up to 100,000 spectators. The conference's fourteen member schools share a broadcast network and a 2016 media deal worth $2.64 billion. This cultural and financial colossus grew out of a modest 1895 meeting that focused on football's brutality and encroaching professionalism in the game. Winton U. Solberg explores the relationship between higher education and collegiate football in the Big Ten's first fifty years. This formative era saw debates over eligibility and amateurism roil the sport. In particular, faculty concerned with academics clashed with coaches, university presidents, and others who played to win. Solberg follows the conference's successful early efforts to put the best interests of institutions and athletes first. Yet, as he shows, commercial concerns undid such work after World War I as sports increasingly eclipsed academics. By the 1940s, the Big Ten's impact on American sports was undeniable. It had shaped the development of intercollegiate athletics and college football nationwide while serving as a model for other athletic conferences.
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It was bad enough when popular offensive line coach Joe Moore sued the University of Notre Dame for age discriminationbut matters got much worse when the lawsuit uncovered disquieting evidence of unethical and inappropriate conduct in a football program widely regarded as a model of probity. This is the dramatic story of that explosive lawsuit, which tarnished Notre Dame's burnished football image: the winner of eleven national titles; the home of legends Knute Rockne, the Gipper and the Four Horsemen; the subject of innumerable books and filmsNotre Dame football has been idealized as everything that is good and right about American sports competition and, indeed, about America itself. This riveting story begins in November 1996, when Bob Davie is hired as head coach to replace the beloved Lou Holtz. In one of his first-and most fateful-executive decisions, Davie fires 64 year old Joe Moore becauseas Davie puts ithe needs someone younger for the job. Attorney Rick Lieberman takes on Joe Moore's case and in this absorbing book he describes the trial and the enormous tensions to which litigants like Joe Moore are subject. This is a David and Goliath story in which the Notre Dame attorneys attempt to destroy Joe Moore's reputation as both a coach and a man. In the process, Davie's own background comes under close scrutiny as a reporter's investigation reveals some damning evidence. And as the trial proceeds, Notre Dame's football program is shown to be rife with legal improprieties and inappropriate behavior involving both coaches and administrators. Anyone interested in sports, in the law, in stories of blatant injusticeand in Notre Damewill find Personal Foul a fascinating, revealing and memorable read.

• Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction;
• 1. The Arrival of Football on Campus;
• 2. The First Athletic Scandal;
• 3. A Brief Moment in the Sun;
• 4. A Shelter from the Storm;
• 5. The Early McVey Years;
• 6. Banning Women's Sports at the University;
• 7. From Humble Origins to Signature Sport;
• 8. Expansion, Depression, and Fiscal Chaos;
• 9. The Purge of 1938; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

In the heart of the Bluegrass, basketball is king of collegiate athletics. But it wasn't always so. Before Big Blue chronicles the early history of organized sports at the University of Kentucky, from the tenuous beginnings under student leadership, through the early scandals, financial instability, and clashes with administration, to the Purge of 1938 that paved the way for basketball's ascendancy. Once upon a time in Lexington, football ruled the athletic department. In the 1890s and 1900s the most intense competition was with crosstown rival Transylvania University. The annual Thanksgiving Day game was the biggest event of the season, and its gate receipts essentially funded the entire department. Among other highlights, Gregory Kent Stanley reveals the story behind the Wildcats' nickname, reports on the "greased pants game" against Mississippi State in 1914, and divulges the origins of the post-victory nightshirt parades through downtown. When basketball finally arrived on campus, it was the women's team that was organized first. Its transfer out of the women's physical education department in 1903 led to a twenty-year turf war that was one of the period's most intense. Whether played by men or by women, however, basketball during the early years of the century was of minor consequence. The men's team played in a gym without facilities for spectators, most players were from the football team, and all the early coaches - including Adolph Rupp - assisted with the football program. Nevertheless, the early years showed signs of the success to come: the 9-0 team of 1912, which never trailed an opponent; the 1921 squad, losers of only one game and winners of the school's first tournament; and Rupp's winning percentage of.820 during the 1930s that saved his job during President McVey's massive reorganization of the athletic department. Before Big Blue tells a story both unique and universal. As the first comprehensive history of the rise of intercollegiate athletics at UK, it makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature of sports history.
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• Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction;
• 1. The Arrival of Football on Campus;
• 2. The First Athletic Scandal;
• 3. A Brief Moment in the Sun;
• 4. A Shelter from the Storm;
• 5. The Early McVey Years;
• 6. Banning Women's Sports at the University;
• 7. From Humble Origins to Signature Sport;
• 8. Expansion, Depression, and Fiscal Chaos;
• 9. The Purge of 1938; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

In the heart of the Bluegrass, basketball is king of collegiate athletics. But it wasn't always so. Before Big Blue chronicles the early history of organized sports at the University of Kentucky, from the tenuous beginnings under student leadership, through the early scandals, financial instability, and clashes with administration, to the Purge of 1938 that paved the way for basketball's ascendancy. Once upon a time in Lexington, football ruled the athletic department. In the 1890s and 1900s the most intense competition was with crosstown rival Transylvania University. The annual Thanksgiving Day game was the biggest event of the season, and its gate receipts essentially funded the entire department. Among other highlights, Gregory Kent Stanley reveals the story behind the Wildcats' nickname, reports on the "greased pants game" against Mississippi State in 1914, and divulges the origins of the post-victory nightshirt parades through downtown. When basketball finally arrived on campus, it was the women's team that was organized first. Its transfer out of the women's physical education department in 1903 led to a twenty-year turf war that was one of the period's most intense. Whether played by men or by women, however, basketball during the early years of the century was of minor consequence. The men's team played in a gym without facilities for spectators, most players were from the football team, and all the early coaches - including Adolph Rupp - assisted with the football program. Nevertheless, the early years showed signs of the success to come: the 9-0 team of 1912, which never trailed an opponent; the 1921 squad, losers of only one game and winners of the school's first tournament; and Rupp's winning percentage of.820 during the 1930s that saved his job during President McVey's massive reorganization of the athletic department. Before Big Blue tells a story both unique and universal. As the first comprehensive history of the rise of intercollegiate athletics at UK, it makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature of sports history.
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• The contemporary college student athlete as a subpopulation / Daniel B. Kissinger and Michael T. Miller
• College student-athletes: tracing historical research trends in higher education / Darla J. Twale and Karen Abney Korn
• Recruitment, admission, and retention of first-year student-athletes / Victoria L. Sanders and Henry A. Gardner
• The recruiting process: the experiences of student-athletes / Paul M. Hewitt
• Helping student-athletes adapt to college: the role of an academic transition course / Judy Stephen and Kristin Higgins
• The cycle of transition for student-athletes to college / Gregory V. Wolcott and Debbie Gore-Mann
• Promoting student-athlete mental health: the role of campus counseling services / Daniel B. Kissinger and Joshua C. Watson
• Athletics in community colleges: a primer / V. Barbara Bush [and others]
• Private college student-athletes: the world of D3 and NAIA / Adam Morris
• Female student-athletes: counseling considerations for a unique culture / Richard G. Deaner and Adrian S. Janit
• Body image and female student-athletes / Jennifer M. Miles
• International student-athletes / Daniel B. Kissinger
• College athletes and performance-enhancing substance use / Richard E. Newman
• Involvement in learning and athletic participation / Ashley Tull
• Accountability to athletics stakeholders / Kenneth Borland [and others]
• Policy implications of college student-athletes: more than campus discussion / Michael T. Miller and Daniel P. Nadler.

• Cover; Title page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Sifting and Winnowing; Prologue; 1 Life in Happy Valley: The Name and the Paterno Impact; 2 Penn State Presidents: Cheerleading the Teams to Victory; 3 A Joe Paterno-Jerry Sandusky Connection: A Look at Penn State Coaches and Assistant Coaches; 4 Alumni and Taking Control of Penn State Athletics; 5 Hugo Bezdek's Saga-Alumni, Trustees, and Presidents; 6 The Great Experiment That Failed: Alumnus Casey Jones, President Hetzel, and Coach Bob Higgins; 7 The Ernie McCoy-Rip Engle Era and the Beginning of the Grand Experiment in College Football.

• 8 The Joe Paterno, Steve Garban, John Oswald Coup d'État9 President Bryce Jordan and Penn State's Entry into the Big Ten; 10 The Image of Joe Paterno's Grand Experiment; 11 Shaping Reality: Saving Joe Paterno's Legacy; 12 Insularity, The Second Mile, and Sandusky's On-Campus Incidents; 13 Rene Portland and the Culture of Athletic Silence; 14 The Board of Trustees, Insularity, and Athletic Administration; 15 Paterno, Spanier, Schultz, Curley, and the Penn State Pandora's Box; 16 From the Grand Jury to Beyond the NCAA Consent Decree; Timeline; Notes; Index.

The Jerry Sandusky child molestation case stunned the nation. As subsequent revelations uncovered an athletic program operating free of oversight, university officials faced criminal charges while unprecedented NCAA sanctions hammered Penn State football and blackened the reputation of coach Joe Paterno. In Wounded Lions , acclaimed sport historian and longtime Penn State professor Ronald A. Smith draws from university archives to answer the How? and Why? at the heart of the scandal. The Sandusky case was far from the first example of illegal behavior related to the football program--or the university's attempts to suppress news of it. As Smith shows, decades of infighting among administrators, alumni, trustees, faculty, and coaches established policies intended to protect the university, and the football team considered synonymous with its name, at all costs. If the habits predated Paterno, they also became sanctified during his tenure. Smith names names to show how abuses of power warped the "Penn State Way" even with hires like women's basketball coach Rene Portland, who allegedly practiced sexual bias against players for decades. Smith also details a system that concealed Sandusky's horrific acts just as deftly as it whitewashed years of rules violations, coaching malfeasance, and player crime while Paterno set records and raised hundreds of millions of dollars for the university.
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• Preface, Derek Van Rheenen and Jean Marie DeOrnellas. Introduction: Scholar-Practitioner Collaborations as Communities of Practice, Derek Van Rheenen and Jean Marie DeOrnellas. PART I: A Winning Team: Scholar-Practitioner Partnerships in Sport for Development, Tom Keyte, Meredith A. Whitley, Ben Farai Sanders, Lana Rolfe, Matthew Mattila, Richard Christopher Pavlick, and Heather Louise Baillie Ridout. TEAMS (Teaching Excellence Achievement and Motivation Through Sport): Case Study of a University-Community Collaboration, Jan Sokol- Katz, Lorrie Basinger-Fleischman, Jomills Henry Braddock II, and Marvin P. Dawkins. Goalball as Engaged Scholarship, Derek Van Rheenen, Jean Marie DeOrnellas, Jonathan Newman, Rick Smith, Jessica N. Adams, Matt Grigorieff, and William T. Wyatt. Taking Academic Flight: Scholar-Baller Partnerships and Educational Achievement, C. Keith Harrison, Reggie Saunders, Troy Vincent, Laurel Traynowicz, Jean Boyd, and Cliff Parks. PART II: Collaboration Between Academics and Athletic Department Professionals: The Career Transition Scorecard as an Instructive Model, Eddie Comeaux. Proactive Program Improvement: Incorporating Assessment Into Student-Athlete Academic Support Services, Tony Mirabelli and Kirsten Hextrum. And the Twain Shall Meet: University of Miami Doctoral Student and Athletics Administrator Open Door to Unlikely Collaboration, Felecia Theune and Shirelle Jackson. Development of a Comprehensive Student-Athlete Engagement Program: The Warhawk Leadership Academy, Kristina Navarro and Justin Mistretta. Education and Athletics: A Case of Research Collaboration at Kansas State University, Lisa M. Rubin, Ian J. Connole, and Cori L. Pinkett. A Case Study of the University of Tulsa's S.H.A.P.E. (Student Health, Athletic Performance, and Education) Project, Danielle C. Zanotti, Christina M. Carter, Kathleen C. Strunk, and Lisa DeMarni Cromer. Conclusion, Derek Van Rheenen and Jean Marie DeOrnellas. About the Authors.
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Envisioning Scholar-Practitioner Collaborations: Building Communities of Practice in Education and Sport presents a collection of case studies of collaborations between scholars and practitioners dedicated to both the generation of new knowledge and innovative best practices at the nexus of education and sport. This inaugural text in a series sponsored by the Research Focus on Education and Sport Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association seeks to reveal a number of educational spaces in which this critical work takes place. The volume, comprising ten unique collaborations, outlines the important intellectual and social work of scholar-practitioners at the intersection of institutional sport and education at a variety of sites, both in school and in non-school settings. Each of these chapters has a unique set of research questions, programmatic goals and findings. For the purpose of this book, however, contributors have described the nature of their collaborations-for whom and by whom these collaborations are forged-such that the "findings" are presented as lessons learned from the process of collaboration. This book reveals educational spaces where scholars and practitioners are collaborating and generating new understandings of the world we know. We characterize this effort as mutually beneficial and respectful, engendering a vision of hope, exploration and educational transformation.
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• Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface;
• 1. From Sabbath Bans to Super Sunday;
• 2. The Old Knight in the New World;
• 3. Revolutionary Heroes and Fighting Parsons;
• 4. The Acrobatic Christianity of the Early Frontier;
• 5. The Soul of American Knighthood;
• 6. The Consecration of College Sports;
• 7. Manliness Moves West;
• 8. Playful Alternatives;
• 9. Sportianity versus Mountainity;
• 10. Builders of Character and the YMCA;
• 11. Cloning West Point on the American Campus;
• 12. Symbols of the Union of Caesar and Christ;
• 13. Power in the Sweat;
• 14. Field Generals of the Crusade.

• 15. Power in the Tube16. The Knight and the Shepherd; Works Cited; Index.

From the worship of Michael Jordan to the downfall of O.J. Simpson, it has become clear that sports and sports heroes have assumed a role in American society far out of proportion to their traditional value. In this powerful critique of present-day American popular culture, Robert J. Higgs examines the complex and increasingly pervasive control that sports wield in shaping the national self-image. He provides a thoughtful history and analysis of how sports and religion have become intertwined and offers a stinging indictment of the sports-religion-media-education complex. Beginning with the pla.

• Preface: The Changing Game
• 000 Acknowledgments
• 000 Introduction
• 000
• 1. Russell's Coming of Age
• 000
• 2. A Road Trip to Discovery
• 000
• 3. On Catholic Schools and Race
• 000
• 4. Another Surprise Recruit
• 000
• 5. A School He'd Never Heard Of
• 000
• 6. Roommates and Friends Forever
• 000
• 7. Time to Produce
• 000
• 8. A Disappointing Season
• 000
• 9. An Unlikely Coach
• 000
• 10. A Surprising Move
• 000
• 11. The Trail to the Title
• 000
• 12. Russell Brings about Rule Changes
• 000
• 13. The Machine Rolls On
• 000
• 14. Into the Deep South 000
• 15. Holiday Travel and the Stall
• 000
• 16. Two in a Row
• 000
• 17. A New Sport for Russell
• 000
• 18. The Aftermath 000
• 19. Epilogue
• 000 Notes 000 Bibliography
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In the mid-1950s three unrecruited black basketball players, coached by a white former prison guard who had never before coached a college team, led a small Jesuit university in San Francisco to two national titles. The Dandy Dons describes for the first time how the unprecedented accomplishment of the Dons, led by coach Phil Woolpert and future hall-of-famers Bill Russell and K. C. Jones, paved the way for black talent in major college basketball and transformed the sport. James W. Johnson traces the backgrounds of the coach and players, chronicles the heart-stopping games on the road to the championships, and details the Dons' novel techniques: a more vertical game, more central defense, and intimidation as part of game strategy. He also gives a textured picture of life on an integrated basketball team amid a culture of racism and Jim Crow in mid-twentieth-century America.
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• Preface: The Changing Game
• 000 Acknowledgments
• 000 Introduction
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• 1. Russell's Coming of Age
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• 2. A Road Trip to Discovery
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• 3. On Catholic Schools and Race
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• 4. Another Surprise Recruit
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• 5. A School He'd Never Heard Of
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• 6. Roommates and Friends Forever
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• 7. Time to Produce
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• 8. A Disappointing Season
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• 9. An Unlikely Coach
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• 10. A Surprising Move
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• 11. The Trail to the Title
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• 12. Russell Brings about Rule Changes
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• 13. The Machine Rolls On
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• 14. Into the Deep South 000
• 15. Holiday Travel and the Stall
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• 16. Two in a Row
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• 17. A New Sport for Russell
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• 18. The Aftermath 000
• 19. Epilogue
• 000 Notes 000 Bibliography
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In the mid-1950s three unrecruited black basketball players, coached by a white former prison guard who had never before coached a college team, led a small Jesuit university in San Francisco to two national titles. The Dandy Dons describes for the first time how the unprecedented accomplishment of the Dons, led by coach Phil Woolpert and future hall-of-famers Bill Russell and K. C. Jones, paved the way for black talent in major college basketball and transformed the sport. James W. Johnson traces the backgrounds of the coach and players, chronicles the heart-stopping games on the road to the championships, and details the Dons' novel techniques: a more vertical game, more central defense, and intimidation as part of game strategy. He also gives a textured picture of life on an integrated basketball team amid a culture of racism and Jim Crow in mid-twentieth-century America.
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• Introduction : leaving a legacy in athletic administration
• Off and running
• War and fitness
• The ballyhoo years, 1919-1925 : Griffith's philosophy at the national level
• Becoming commissioner : regional administration during the ballyhoo years
• In defense of athletics and administration, 1926-1930
• John L. Griffith and the depression years
• To war again!
• Defending ground in the war's fourth quarter
• Conclusion : Griffith's legacy.

Fit for America is at once an intellectual biography of Major John L. Griffith, one of the preeminent intercollegiate athletics administrators of the twentieth century, and an in-depth look at how athletics shaped national military preparedness in a time of war and anticommunist sentiment. Lindaman traces Griffith's forty-year career, one that spanned both world wars and included his appointment as the first Big Ten commissioner from 1922 until 1945. Griffith also served as NCAA president in the 1930s and later became the secretary-treasurer during World War II. Throughout his career, he worked tirelessly to advance the role and importance of collegiate sports on a regional and national level. In an era of heightened fears of communism, Griffith saw intercollegiate athletics as a way to prepare young men to become fit, disciplined military recruits. Griffith also founded his own publication, the Athletic Journal, in 1922 in which he published opinion pieces and solicited the opinions of other leading coaches and administrators nationwide. Through these pages, Lindaman explores not only Griffith's philosophy but also the emergence of a coaching and athletic administration network. Drawing on voluminous primary source material and the many writings Griffith left behind, Fit for America brings long-overdue attention to a figure who was instrumental in shaping the world of American intercollegiate sports.
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