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The Athletic Trap: How College Sports Corrupted the Academy
II Howard L. Nixon
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Description for The Athletic Trap: How College Sports Corrupted the Academy
Hardback. The Athletic Trap will be of interest to university presidents, board members, and administrators, sport sociologists concerned with the balance of power between academics and athletics, and anyone else with a serious interest in college sports and its future. Num Pages: 232 pages, 2, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JNM; KNSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
The unrivaled amount of cash poured into the college athletic system has made sports programs breeding grounds for corruption while diverting crucial resources from the academic mission of universities. Like money in Washington politics, the influence bought by a complex set of self-interested actors seriously undermines movement toward reform while trapping universities in a cycle of escalating competition. Longtime sport sociologist Howard L. Nixon II approaches the issue from the perspective of college presidents - how they are seduced by prestige or pressured by economics into building programs that move schools toward a commercial model of athletics. Nixon situates his ... Read more
The unrivaled amount of cash poured into the college athletic system has made sports programs breeding grounds for corruption while diverting crucial resources from the academic mission of universities. Like money in Washington politics, the influence bought by a complex set of self-interested actors seriously undermines movement toward reform while trapping universities in a cycle of escalating competition. Longtime sport sociologist Howard L. Nixon II approaches the issue from the perspective of college presidents - how they are seduced by prestige or pressured by economics into building programs that move schools toward a commercial model of athletics. Nixon situates his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421411958
SKU
V9781421411958
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About II Howard L. Nixon
Howard L. Nixon II is a professor of sociology at Towson University. He is author or coauthor of seven books, including Sport in a Changing World and A Sociology of Sport.
Reviews for The Athletic Trap: How College Sports Corrupted the Academy
Nixon presents a thorough analysis of the development and the current implications of commercialized intercollegiate athletics in the US. His findings reveal the task of reforming intercollegiate athletics to be a daunting and potentially futile endeavor. Choice