Big-Time Sports in American Universities
Publish on January 19th, 2012 under Sports
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the times sport: Big-Time Sports in American Universities
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For almost a century, big-time college sports 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
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Fascinating and balanced account,
There are plenty of books about what’s wrong with college sports, often in the “ain’t-it-awful” genre, and a long article in the latest Atlantic is an indictment of the way “student-athletes” are exploited. Clotfelter’s book is a more balanced account: he’s an economist and he gives an excellent description of just what the costs and benefits are of big-time college sports, both tangible and intangible. And the book explains how colleges got into the entertainment business in the first place and why they’re not likely to leave it any time soon. He doesn’t neglect the exploitation issue, and suggests various ways in which it could be fixed (but probably won’t be). His analysis has some surprises and I learned a lot.
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|“Entertainment in the form of big-time sports is a core function of the university.”,
This book is on the Rorotoko list. Professor Clotfelter’s interview on “Big-Time Sports in American Universities” ran as the Rorotoko Cover Feature on June 27, 2011 (and can be read in the Rorotoko archive).
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