Intercollegiate Sports in America, 1900-2015
 

Spring 2015

Tuesday 4-6 and online

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The Culture of Winning and the Amateur Athlete

 Required Reading
Read at least two in addition to the required items.

Howard J. Savage, et. al. "The Press and College Athletics," American College Athletics (New York: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1929) pp. 266-290.

  1. Welch Suggs. "The NCAA Debates the Meaning of Amateurism," The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 11, 2000.
  2. "Pay for Play Resurfaces, But NCAA Still Opposed," The NCAA News, March 17, 2003.
  3. Allen St. John. "The BMOC Strategy. The Secret To Winning The NCAA Championship: Pin Your Hopes on the Star," The [Wall Street] Journal Report: NCAA Basketball Tournament, March 14, 2005.
  4. Stefan Fatsis. "Where Are They Now? Their Tournament Is Over," The [Wall Street] Journal Report: NCAA Basketball Tournament, March 14, 2005.
  5. Michael S. Harris. "Message in a Bottle: University Advertising During Bowl Games," Innovation in Higher Education (2009).
  6. Daniel I. Rees and Kevin T. Schnepel. "College Football Games and Crime," Journal of Sports Economics (2009).
  7. Neal Johnson. "NCAA 'Point Shaving' as an Artifact of the Regression Effect and the Lack of Tie Games," Journal of Sports Economics (2009).
  8. Matthew P. McAllister. "Hypercommercialism, Televisuality, and the Changing Nature of College Sports Sponsorship," American Behavioral Scientist (53, 2010).
  9. Daniel A. Griffith "An Analytical Perspective on Sporting Events Attendance: The 2007-2008 US NCAA College Bowl Games," Applied Geography (30, 2010).
  10. Allen Sack. "Ralph Nader and 'Pay for Play'," Inside HigherEd, April 15, 2011.
  11. E. Scott Adler, Michael J. Berry, and David Doherty, "Pushing 'Reset': The Conditional Effects of Coaching Replacements on College Football Performance," Social Science Quarterly, 1-28 (2012).
  12. George F. Will, "The Irresistable Force of College Football," The Washington Post, November 9, 2011.
  13. Josephine (Jo) R. Potuto, Richard H. Larson , Connie Dillon, and David Clough, "What's at Our Core? NCAA Division I Voting Patterns vs. Student-Athlete Well-Being, Academic Standards, and the Amateur (Collegiate) Model," Knight Commission, 2012.
  14. Jennifer Lee Hoffman, "Competition and Control in The Gridiron Marketplace: Findings from the Intercollegiate Athletics Leadership Database. A Report Presented to the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics," Center For Leadership in Athletics, University of Washington, September 2012.
  15. Rich Cohen, "They Taught America How to Watch Football," The Atlantic, October 2012.
  16. Kriegera, Kevin and Andy Fodorb. "Price Movements and the Prevalence of Informed Traders: The Case of Line Movement in College Basketball," Journal of Economics and Business (68:70-82, 2013).
  17. Epting, L. Kimberly, Kristen N. Riggs, Joseph D. Knowles and John J. Hanky. "Cheers vs. Jeers: Effects of Audience Feedback on Individual Athletic Performance," North American Journal of Psychology,(13:2, 299-312, 2011).
  18. Pennington, Bill. "Hidden Threats to Young Athletes," New York Times, May 11, 2013
  19. Michael A. Messner and Michela Musto, "Where are the Kids?" Sociology of Sport Journal (21:2014).

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