Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values
 Telling it like it is: The authors have collected an enormous amount of data and presented it lucidly and tellingly. That alone is worth the price of the book. However one feels about elite instutions using different admission standards for recruited [... more]
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A Civil War Army VS Navy: A Year Inside College ...
From Amazon.com: Fans of Yale-Harvard--or, for that matter, of Tennessee State-Grambling--may disagree with sports author John Feinstein's subtitle, but this look inside the Cadet-Midshipmen wars backs up the idea of the annual Army-Navy game as a purer [... more]
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The Long Tail
When Variety Costs Little More, People Enjoy Having More of It: When you want to eat ice cream outside your home, do you go to a store that offers only chocolate and vanilla . . . or do you go where there are many more choices? Most people will do the [... more]
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Real Sports Reporting
Editor explains why this is a strong book.: Contributors to "Real Sports Reporting" include Michelle Kaufman of The Miami Herald; Jeff Gordon of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Tim Povtak and John Cherwa of the Orlando Sentinel; Adam Schefter of [... more]
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I Am Charlotte Simmons
Amazon.ca: Amazon.ca Exclusive Content Tom Wolfe Talks About I Am Charlotte Simmons In I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe masterfully chronicles college sports, fraternities, keggers, coeds, and sex--all through the eyes of the titular Simmons, a bright [... more]
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Our Guys
From Amazon.com: Leslie, a sweet-natured young woman with the mental age of an 8-year-old, just wanted to be friends with the high school football stars. When they invited her down into the basement rec room of a suburban home, she jumped with joy at [... more]
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The Dead Are Alive: They Can and Do Communicate With You
communicating to the dead: it was reall devastating to imagine that i'd just loss my mom. everything is so messy even my life...every aspect in my life. i always thought and wish that my mom would communicate to me, and she did ..in my dreams. though i [... more]
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Costs of Living
A good description of the choices of middle class life.: A good attempt at explaining the costs of living in capitalism. A bit dated considering the World Trade Organization, computerization and downsizing, but he makes points most people need to hear [... more]
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Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University: A ...
Universities punt when it comes to managing athletics: Jim Duderstadt, former President of University of Michigan, an intercollegiate athlete himself and a full-time Big 10 fan, has finally decided the shred the public relations shroud around the reality [... more]
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The Dream Job: $Port$ Publicity, Promotion and Marketing
excellent read: Tis book is applicable inside the classroom and out. I first read it for a business class and then later when I got my first job in public realtions. It really helped me understand and familiarize myself with sports PR and PR in general. [... more]
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Ethics and College Sports: Ethics, Sports, and the ...
Author: Peter A. French Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 796.0430973 EAN: 9780742512733 ISBN: 0742512738 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: 2004-09 [... more]
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Beer And Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is ...
Undergraduate Education Comes Up Way Short Next to Sports: There is not much doubt that undergraduate education for the typical student at large universities is most unsatisfactory: one is, with few exceptions, a nonentity with no opportunity to shape [... more]
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