America's Game(s)

America's Game(s)

Author: Benjamin Eastman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-12-12

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1136802630

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This book considers how to locate America in the sporting world and howAmerican Sport should reflect the vast networks of expertise, finance, and performance moving out from American athletic body as well as the influx of talent coming from abroad.


Running with the Buffaloes

Running with the Buffaloes

Author: Chris Lear

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0762774576

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Top five Best Books About Running, Runner's World Magazine Top three Best Books About Running, readers of Runner's World Magazine (December 2009) A phenomenal portrait of courage and desire that will do for college cross-country what John Feinstein's A Season on the Brink did for college basketball.


College recruiting

College recruiting

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13:

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The Survey of College Athletics Department Advancement & Fundraising Efforts

The Survey of College Athletics Department Advancement & Fundraising Efforts

Author: Primary Research Group

Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 77

ISBN-13: 1574402366

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This study, based on data from 56 colleges, looks closely at fundraising and advancement efforts run by athletics departments themselves. The study reports on the size and dimensions of these efforts, including data on budgets, staffing levels and salaries. The data is broken out for Division 1, Division 2 and Division 3 colleges, and for public and private colleges, by enrollment and type of college. The report covers personnel and salaries, costs and results, as well as detailed data on the effectiveness of various fundraising channels and methods including use of blogs for campaigns, email campaigns, brick campaigns, use of YouTube, Vimeo , Facebook, Google+, Twittter and other social media. The study presents precise data on the impact of booster clubs, the results from selling facility naming rights, and of efforts to raise funds from former athletes who went to the college. The study also looks at the state of relations between the general college advancement office and the advancement offices of athletic departments, as well as at how athletic departments evaluate their fundraising efforts. Other issues include a look at the use of fundraising consultants, the structure of incentives for giving and the use of rewards for donors, among other issues.


Critical Sports Studies

Critical Sports Studies

Author: Nicholas Villanueva, Jr.

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-05

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781793507501

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Critical Sports Studies: A Document Reader provides students with a selection of essays that examine social problems in sport. Readers are challenged to critically consider various topics to better understand how the global phenomenon of sport can lead to challenges both on and off the field. The opening chapter introduces the study of sport in society as an academic discipline. Later chapters cover amateurism in sport, sports and politics, and the role of media in


Pay for Play

Pay for Play

Author: Ronald A. Smith

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0252035879

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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.


The Edge

The Edge

Author: Roger Pielke

Publisher: Roaring Forties Press

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1938901622

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Roger Pielke reveals how sports stars break the rules in their search for a competitive edge. Both entertaining and thought-provoking, THE EDGE not only visits the battlefields in the war against cheating and corruption, but also explores ways to ensure that “the spirit of sport” can survive in today’s high-tech, highly professional world. Drawing on controversies straight out of the headlines, Pielke looks at doping, match fixing, fake amateurism, and other ways of breaking the rules. But are those rules--and the values they reflect--hopelessly outdated? Wonderfully readable and scrupulously researched, THE EDGE blends science and journalism to produce an unforgettable account of sport in crisis.