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Big-time sports in American universities / Charles T. Clotfelter, Duke University.
LIBRA GV351 .C56 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clotfelter, Charles T., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- College sports--United States.
- College sports.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 374 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- Part 1. Commercial sports as a university function
- 1. Strange bedfellows
- 2. Priorities
- 3. The bigness of "Big Time"
- Part 2. The uses of big-time college sports
- 4. Consumer good
- 5. Commercial enterprise
- 6. Life of the party
- 7. Institution builder
- 8. Identity
- Part 3. Reckoning
- 9. Ends and means
- 10. Prospects for reform.
- Notes:
- "First published 2011"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781108421126
- 1108421121
- 9781108431392
- 1108431399
- OCLC:
- 1030446022
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