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Changing the Playbook: How Power, Profit, and Politics Transformed College Sports
Howard P Chudacoff
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Description for Changing the Playbook: How Power, Profit, and Politics Transformed College Sports
Hardback. Series: Sport and Society. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 298 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
"In Changing the Playbook, Howard P. Chudacoff delves into the background and what-ifs surrounding seven defining moments that redefined college sports. These changes involved fundamental issues--race and gender, profit and power--that reflected societal tensions and, in many cases, remain pertinent today:
"In Changing the Playbook, Howard P. Chudacoff delves into the background and what-ifs surrounding seven defining moments that redefined college sports. These changes involved fundamental issues--race and gender, profit and power--that reflected societal tensions and, in many cases, remain pertinent today:
- the failed 1950 effort to pass a Sanity Code regulating payments to football players;
- the thorny racial integration of university sports programs;
- the boom in television money;
- the 1984 Supreme Court decision that settled who could control skyrocketing media revenues;
- Title IX's transformation of women's athletics;
- the cheating, eligibility, and recruitment scandals that tarnished college sports in the 1980s and 1990s;
- the ongoing controversy over ... Read more
A thought-provoking journey into the whos and whys of college sports history, Changing the Playbook reveals how the turning points of yesterday and today will impact tomorrow."
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Sport and Society
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252039782
SKU
V9780252039782
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About Howard P Chudacoff
Howard P. Chudacoff is George L. Littlefield Professor of American History and Professor of Urban Studies at Brown University and a faculty representative to the NCAA. His books include Children at Play: An American History.
Reviews for Changing the Playbook: How Power, Profit, and Politics Transformed College Sports
"Changing the Playbook is a timely, thoughtful, persuasive book, a welcome addition to the scholarship on big-time intercollegiate athletics. It will help many readers understand some of the key turning points in the history of college sports since 1950, moments that have greatly contributed to making this unique cultural institution and practice bigger than ever, for better and (mostly) worse."
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