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14 produkter
Sports and Freedom
The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics
E-bok, 1990
420 kr
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Perhaps more than any other two colleges, Harvard and Yale gave form to American intercollegiate athletics--a form that was inspired by the Oxford-Cambridge rivalry overseas, and that was imitated by colleges and universities throughout the United States. Focusing on the influence of these …
Sports and Freedom
The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics
Häftad, 1991
672 kr
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The development of inter-college athletics in America is traced from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, looking in particular at the influence of Harvard and Yale.
Sports and Freedom
The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics
E-bok, 1990
420 kr
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Perhaps more than any other two colleges, Harvard and Yale gave form to American intercollegiate athletics--a form that was inspired by the Oxford-Cambridge rivalry overseas, and that was imitated by colleges and universities throughout the United States. Focusing on the influence of these …
Wounded Lions
Joe Paterno, Jerry Sandusky, and the Crises in Penn State Athletics
Inbunden, 2016
1402 kr
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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 …
Pay for Play
A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform
Häftad, 2010
422 kr
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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 …
Wounded Lions
Joe Paterno, Jerry Sandusky, and the Crises in Penn State Athletics
Häftad, 2016
328 kr
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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 …
Pay for Play
A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform
E-bok, 2010
603 kr
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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 …
Wounded Lions
Joe Paterno, Jerry Sandusky, and the Crises in Penn State Athletics
E-bok, 2016
568 kr
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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 …
Debutante's Passion-A Coach's Erotica
Love Letters of a Harvard Man and a Boston Elite
Inbunden, 2009
605 kr
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Myth of the Amateur
A History of College Athletic Scholarships
Inbunden, 2021
409 kr
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In this in-depth look at the heated debates over paying college athletes, Ronald A. Smith starts at the beginning: the first intercollegiate athletics competition-a crew regatta between Harvard and Yale-in 1852, when both teams received an all-expenses-paid vacation from a railroad magnate. This …
Walter Byers and the NCAA
Power, Amateurism, and Growing Controversy in Big-Time College Sport
Inbunden, 2025
415 kr
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Walter Byers, the first executive director of the NCAA, oversaw the organization’s transformation from a small rule-making body into a billion-dollar enterprise that wielded immense power over collegiate athletics. In Walter Byers and the NCAA, historian Ronald A. Smith delves into the complexities …
Nailed to the Crossbar
From the NCAA-Penn State Consent Decree to the Joe Paterno Family Lawsuit
Häftad, 2018
385 kr
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Pay for Play
A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform
Inbunden, 2010
1488 kr
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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 …
Play-by-Play
Radio, Television, and Big-Time College Sport
Inbunden, 2001
520 kr
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The phenomenal popularity of college athletics owes as much to media coverage of games as it does to drum-beating alumni and frantic undergraduates. Play-by-play broadcasts of big college games began in the 1920s via radio, a medium that left much to the listener's imagination and stoked interest …
