Intercollegiate Sports in America, 1900-2015
 

Spring 2015

Tuesday 4-6 and online

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Competition and Equity

Required Reading:
Read at least four of the following items.

  1. John R. Thelin. "Good Sports? Historical Perspective on the Political Economy of Intercollegiate Athletics in the Era of Title IX, 1972-1997," The Journal of Higher Education (2000).
  2. Welch Suggs. "For Top Women's Basketball Players, the Ideal Practice Includes Men, " The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 23, 2001.
  3. "International Student-Athlete Issues," Sports Law Letter and by the Book Compliance Alert (Holland & Knight, LLP) April 27, 2001.
  4. Dana Mulhauser. "NCAA Cracks Down on Foreign Athletes, While Urging Members to Relax Rules," The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 12, 2001.
  5. Welch Suggs. "Cutting the Field," The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 6, 2003.
  6. Welch Suggs. "The Recruits," The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 3, 2003.
  7. Bill Finley. "College Basketball Preview: Coaches Aim to Recruit for Today; Players Have Eyes on Tomorrow," New York Times, November 30, 2003.
  8. Thomas McLaughlin. "'Man to Man': Basketball, Movement, and the Practice of Masculinity," The South Atlantic Quarterly, (2004).
  9. Amy Merrick. "Stepping Stone. Pro Basketball Isn't Necessarily the Ultimate Goal for Most Women College Players," The [Wall Street] Journal Report: NCAA Basketball Tournament, March 14, 2005.
  10. Eli Saslow. "Turning Promise Into a Commodity: Nigerians Who Dream of Playing Pro Basketball Often Become Pawns in an Unregulated International Market," The Washington Post, January 29, 2006.
  11. Linda Jean Carpenter and R. Vivian Acosta. Women in Intercollegiate Sport: A Longitudinal, National Study Twenty Nine Year Update, 1977 - 2006 (National Association for Girls and Women in Sport, 2006).
  12. Ian S.C. Patrick, Daniel F. Mahony, and Joseph M. Petrosko. "Distributive Justice in Intercollegiate Athletics: An Examination of Equality, Revenue Production, and Need," Journal of Sport Management (2008).
  13. Joel Millman. "These Days, Everybody's All-American Just May Be a Haitian," The Wall Street Journal, December 4, 2009.
  14. Scott Jaschik. "Transgender Athletes, College Teams," Inside Higher Ed, October 5, 2010.
  15. Deaner, Robert O., David C. Geary, David A. Puts, Sandra A. Ham, Judy Kruger, Elizabeth Fles, Bo Winegard, and Terry Grandis. "A Sex Difference in the Predisposition for Physical Competition: Males Play Sports Much More than Females Even in the Contemporary U.S.," PLOS ONE (7:11, November 1, 2012).
  16. Commitment to Equity (Princeton University: NCAA Self-Study, Certification 1997-98).
  17. Commitment to Equity (University of Florida: NCAA Self-Study, Certification 1998)

Other Issues Related to Race, Class, and Gender

Race

  1. Jeffrey T. Sammons. "'Race' and Sport: A Critical, Historical Examination," Journal of Sport History (1994).
  2. Neil J. Sullivan. "Baseball and Race: The Limits of Competition," Journal of Negro History (1998).
  3. Welch Suggs. "For Black Americans, Better Than a Bowl Game," The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 20, 2000.
  4. Tamela McNulty Eitle and David J. Eitle. "Race, Cultural Capital, and the Educational Effects of Participation in Sports," Sociology of Education (2002).
  5. David C. Ogden. "The Welcome Theory: An Approach to Studying African American Youth Interest and Involvement in Baseball," Nine (2004).
  6. Dylan A. T. Miner. "Provocations on Sneakers: The Multiple Significations of Athletic Shoes, Sport, Race, and Masculinity," The New Centennial Review (2009).
  7. Thomas Aiello "The Heritage Fallacy: Race, Loyalty, and the First Grambling-Southern Football Game," History of Education Quarterly (50:4, 2010).
  8. Pickett, Moneque Walker , Marvin P. Dawkins and Jomills Henry Braddock. "Race and Gender Equity in Sports: Have White and African American Females Benefited Equally From Title IX?" American Behavioral Scientist, (56:1581, 2012).

Women

  1. Jane English. "Sex Equality in Sports," Philosophy and Public Affairs (1978).
  2. James Fallows. "Throwing Like a Girl," The Atlantic Monthly (1996).
  3. Elizabeth Crowley. "Title IX Levels Playing Field," The Wall Street Journal, June 22, 2000.
  4. Welch Suggs. "Left Behind," The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 26, 2001.
  5. Selena Roberts. "Two-Way Street When It Comes to Scholarships," The New York Times, December 25, 2002.
  6. Joy L. Gaston-Gayles. "Examining Academic and Athletic Motivation Among Student Athletes at a Division I University," Journal of College Student Development (2004).
  7. Jo Ann M. Buysse and Melissa Sheridan Embser-Herbert. "Constructions of Gender in Sport: An Analysis of Intercollegiate Media Guide Cover Photographs," Gender and Society (2004).
  8. Jerome Quarterman, Aimee D. Dupreé, and Kimberly Pettaway Willis. "Challenges Confronting Female Intercollegiate Athletic Directors of NCAA Member Institutions by Division," College Student Journal (2006).
  9. Michael Weinreb. "Playing for Fun, and Little Else, on Football's Edge," The New York Times, July 18, 2006.
  10. Carol Paik. "A Few Things I Know about Softball," Fourth Genre (2007).
  11. Bob Gorman. "All-American Girls: Photoessay,[women's professional baseball league]," Nine (2007).
  12. Jennifer E. Bruening and Marlene A. Dixon. "Situating Work-Family Negotiations Within a Life Course Perspective: Insights on the Gendered Experiences of NCAA Division I Head Coaching Mothers," Sex Roles (2008).
  13. Jere Longman. "UConn Women Are Good for the Game," The New York Times, March 15, 2010.
  14. Barren Everson. "How Should We Feel About UConn? As the Huskies Dominate the NCAA Tournament, Some Wonder-Is the Women's Game Broken?" The Wall Street Journal, April 1, 2010.
  15. Charles L. Kennedy. "A New Frontier For Women's Sports (Beyond Title IX)," Gender Issues (27, 2010).
  16. NCAA Sports Sporsorship and Participation
  17. NCAA Diversity Research and Reports
  18. NCAA Gender Equity Research and Reports
  19. Pickett, Moneque Walker, Marvin P. Dawkins, and Jomills Henry Braddock. "Race and Gender Equity in Sports: Have White and African American Females Benefited Equally From Title IX?" American Behavioral Scientist, (56:1581, 2012).

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