Chapter 1 Historical Overview Chapter 2 The Issues Chapter 3 The Integrity of the Enterprise Chapter 4 Higher Education's Failed Experiment with Professional Athletics Chapter 5 Ethical Dilemmas in College Sport Chapter 6 Race in College Sport Chapter 7 The Impact of Race as it Relates to Employment Opportunities for Collegiate Football Coaches Chapter 8 Gender and Sport Chapter 9 National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Issues of Sports Wagering Chapter 10 Performance Enhancing Drugs: The Wounds Behind the Glory Chapter 11 Agents on Campus Chapter 12 "Show mw the Money" Created a College Sportocracy: The Influence of the Media Chapter 13 The Players Chapter 14 The Presidents' Forum Chapter 15 Conference Commissioners' Forum Chapter 16 Athletics Directors' Forum Chapter 17 Faculty Forum Chapter 18 Student-Athletes' Forum Chapter 19 The NCAA Chapter 20 Recommendations
RICHARD E. LAPCHICK is Director of the Sport Business Management Program at the College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida. His program focuses on business skills for a successful career in the changing sports industry. He is the author of Rules of the Game, a title in the Macmillan/ACE Series (1989). Lapchick has also written about South African sports in The Politics of Race and International Sport (1975), and about women under Apartheid in Oppression and Resistance (1982), both for Greenwood Publishing. He has been named six times as 'one of the 100 most powerful people in sport.' Lapchick is also a human rights activist, and has won the Ralph Bunche International Peace Award.
Sponsored by the American Council on Education and issued in the
'ACE/Praeger Series on Higher Education,' this volume addresses the
current state of intercollegiate sports and offers recommendations
for future action in reforming the NCAA. The author ofnumerous
books on sports, Lapchick is an activist, and he gathers here 18
essays that look at the issues and the players. The core of the
book is the examination of issues: the integrity of college sports,
higher education's failure to emulate the professional model,
ethical dilemmas, race, coaching opportunities, gender, wagering,
performance enhancing drugs, sports agents, and the influence of
the media. The second section comprises various forums—forums of
college presidents, conference commissioners, athletic directors,
faculty, and student athletes. These essays are slightly polemical
but include a lot of information. Fitz Hill, former head football
coach at San Jose State, offers a particularly insightful analysis
of the issue of race and collegefootball, and the student-athlete
forum is notable for the participants' excellent preparation. The
final chapter, Lipchick's Recommendations, should be required
reading for anyone involved in, or interested in, intercollegiate
sport. Highly recommended.
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Lapchick brings together conflicting voices on the business of
running college sports in the United States.
Sponsored by the American Council on Education and issued in the
'ACE/Praeger Series on Higher Education,' this volume addresses the
current state of intercollegiate sports and offers recommendations
for future action in reforming the NCAA. The author of numerous
books on sports, Lapchick is an activist, and he gathers here 18
essays that look at the issues and the players. The core of the
book is the examination of issues: the integrity of college sports,
higher education's failure to emulate the professional model,
ethical dilemmas, race, coaching opportunities, gender, wagering,
performance enhancing drugs, sports agents, and the influence of
the media. The second section comprises various "forums"—forums of
college presidents, conference commissioners, athletic directors,
faculty, and student athletes. These essays are slightly polemical
but include a lot of information. Fitz Hill, former head football
coach at San Jose State, offers a particularly insightful analysis
of the issue of race and college football, and the student-athlete
forum is notable for the participants' excellent preparation. The
final chapter, Lipchick's Recommendations, should be required
reading for anyone involved in, or interested in, intercollegiate
sport. Highly recommended. Undergraduates, professionals and
professionals in training, and general readers.
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