Counterfeit Amateurs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Counterfeit Amateurs write by Allen L. Sack. This book was released on 2012-04-06. Counterfeit Amateurs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With a Foreword by Ara ParseghianThe debate over big-time college sports, never far from the front pages, has once again moved from simmering to hot. Congress has been investigating the tax-exempt status of the NCAA in part because of questions about how commercialized college sports contribute to educational values. Athletes are challenging the NCAA on antitrust grounds to get a bigger share of the revenue. Against this backdrop, more faculty are beginning to be concerned about what is happening at their own universities and to the educational system as a whole as rampant commercialism further invades campus life through big-time sports. A leader among faculty fighting back has been Allen Sack, a co-founder of the Drake Group whose writings and public appearances, including work as an expert witness, have gained him wide recognition as an outspoken advocate for athletic reform. This book brings together in a compelling way both his personal story of life as a highly recruited athlete out of high school and a football player at Notre Dame under legendary coach Ara Parseghian and his fight, since then, as a scholar-activist against what he calls the &“academic capitalism&” of the system under current NCAA rules. Sack distinguishes his own position, as an advocate of athletes&’ rights, from the reformist stance of NCAA President Myles Brand, who believes that commercialized sport and education can peacefully coexist, and the &“intellectual elitist&” position of people like William Dowling, who would like to see big-time college sports kicked off campus altogether. It is a battle with high stakes for all concerned, not least the athletes whose exploitation by the system has been the motivating force for Sack&’s own campaign, now stretching over several decades.
The Detection of Counterfeit Currency
The Detection of Counterfeit Currency - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Detection of Counterfeit Currency write by United States. Secret Service. This book was released on 1975. The Detection of Counterfeit Currency available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Pay for Play
Pay for Play - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pay for Play write by Ronald A. Smith. This book was released on 2011. Pay for Play available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008
Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008 write by Russell Field. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 1968 was a year of protest in civil society (Prague, Paris, Chicago) and a year of protest in sport. After a world-wide campaign, the anti-apartheid movement succeeded in barring South Africa from the Olympic Games, while US athletes from the Olympic Project for Human Rights used the medals podium to decry the racism of North America. Meanwhile, students in Mexico demonstrated against social priorities in Mexico, the host of the 1968 Games. These events contributed significantly to the rejection of the idea that sports are apolitical, and stimulated the scholarly study of sport across the social sciences. Leading up to the Beijing Olympic Games, similar dynamics were played out across the globe, while a campaign was underway to boycott the ‘Genocide Olympics’. The volume, To Remember is to Resist, came out of a three-day conference on sports, human rights and social change hosted by the University of Toronto forty years after Mexico and eighty days before the Beijing Opening Ceremony. The contributions to this volume capture the memories of activists who were "on the ground" using sport as a site for the struggle for human rights and provide scholarly examinations of past and current human rights movements in sport. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Bowled Over
Bowled Over - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bowled Over write by Oriard. This book was released on 2010-07-13. Bowled Over available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this compellingly argued and deeply personal book, respected sports historian Michael Oriard--who was himself a former second-team All-American at Notre Dame--explores a wide range of trends that have changed the face of big-time college football and transformed the role of the student-athlete. Oriard considers such issues as the politicizati...
