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Changing the Playbook: How Power, Profit, and Politics Transformed College Sports
Contributor(s): Chudacoff, Howard P. (Author)
ISBN: 0252039785     ISBN-13: 9780252039782
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
OUR PRICE:   $108.90  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | History
- Education | Higher
Dewey: 796.043
LCCN: 2019718469
Series: Sport and Society
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.05 lbs) 216 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
"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 paying student athletes a share of the enormous moneys harvested by schools and athletic departments.

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."