Intercollegiate Sports in America, 1900-2015
 

Spring 2014

Tuesday 4-6 and online

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Values, Fairness, and Culture

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

Howard J. Savage, et. al. "Values in American College Athletics," American College Athletics (New York: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1929) pp. 291-311.

David Starr Jordan. "Football: Battle or Sport?" The Pacific Monthly, (1908).

  1. John R. Tunis. "Education and Ethics: The Effect of Organized Sports on the Moral Tone of the Nation," Journal of Higher Education (1961).
  2. Albert J. Figone. "Gambling and College Basketball: The Scandal of 1951," Journal of Sport History (16, 1989).
  3. Tim Layden. "Bettor Education," Sports Illustrated, April 3, 1995.
  4. Tim Layden. "Book Smart," Sports Illustrated, April 10, 1995.
  5. Tim Layden. "You Bet Your Life," Sports Illustrated, April 17, 1995.
  6. Steven W. Pope. "An Army of Athletes: Playing Fields, Battlefields, and the American Military Sporting Experience, 1890-1920," The Journal of Military History (1995).
  7. Steven L. Oster and Terry J. Knapp. "Sports Betting by College Students: Who Bets and How Often?" College Student Journal (June 1998).
  8. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. "Epiphany of Form: On the Beauty of Team Sports," New Literary History (1999).
  9. Welch Suggs. "U. of Michigan Study Documents Gambling Among College Referees," The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 28, 2000.
  10. Welch Suggs. "In Memphis, Top Athletes Leave Town Fast," The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 31, 2001.
  11. Jere Longman. "A Town Where Football Is the Glue and the Hope," New York Times, November 23, 2001.
  12. Lisa E. Wolf-Wendel, J. Douglas Toma, and Christopher C. Morphew. "There's No 'I' in 'Team': Lessons from Athletics on Community Building," The Review of Higher Education (2001).
  13. Tracy J. R. Collins. "Reflections on Teaching Sports Literature in the Academy," Pedagogy (2003).
  14. Jennifer Jacobson. "Sports Gambling by Athletes Is a Widespread Problem, NCAA Study Finds," The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 13, 2004.
  15. Dayna B. Daniels. "You Throw Like a Girl: Sport and Misogyny on the Silver Screen," Film and History (2005).
  16. Ron Briley. "Basketball's Great White Hope and Ronald Reagan's America: Hoosiers (1986)," Film and History (2005).
  17. Danille Christensen Lindquist. "Locating the Nation: Football Game Day and American Dreams in Central Ohio," Journal of American Folklore (2006).
  18. Peter J. Schroedera and Jay Paredes Scribner. "'To Honor and Glorify God': The Role of Religion in One Intercollegiate Athletics," Culture, Sport, Education and Society (2006).
  19. Peter Kaufman and Eli A. Wolff. "Playing and Protesting: Sport as a Vehicle for Social Change," Journal of Sport and Social Issues (2010).
  20. Ben Cohen, "College Football Returns to High School: Long Passed over for Collegiate Jobs, a Wafe of Prep Coaches Is Thriving at the Next Level," The Wall Street Journal, September 21, 2012.
  21. Adam Himmelsbach and Pete Thamel, "Middle School is Basketball's Fiercest Recruiting Battleground," The New York Times, June 25, 2012.
  22. Stu Woo and Miriam Jordan, "Pop Warner Probes 'Bounties': Football League Suspends Coaches over Allegations They Paid Players to Hurt Foes," The Wall Street Journal, September 28, 2012.
  23. Mark Edmundson, "Do Sports Build Character or Damage It?" The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 15, 2012.
  24. Jason Cowley, "Beyond The Art of Fielding: Why Are American Novelists So Interested in Sports?" Slate, January 22, 2012.
  25. Diemer, George and Michael A. Leeds, Failing to Cover: Point Shaving or Statistical Abnormality? International Journal of Sport Finance, (8:175-191, 2013).
  26. Sandford, Jeremy and Paul Shea. "Optimal Setting of Point Spreads," Economica, ( 80:149–170,2013).
  27. Dzikus, Lars , Robin Hardin and Steven N. Waller. "Case Studies of Collegiate Sport Chaplains," Journal of Sport and Social Issues, (36:268, 2012).
  28. Todd Vernon Lewis, "Religious Rhetoric in Southern College Football: New Uses for Religious Metaphors," Southern Communication Journal (78:3, 2013).

On Sports Movies

  1. Andrew C. Miller. "The American Dream Goes to College: The Cinematic Student Athletes of College Football," The Journal of Popular Culture (43:6, 2010).
  2. PIGSKIN PARADE (1936)
  3. THE BIG GAME (1936)
  4. KNUTE ROCKNE - ALL AMERICAN (1940)
  5. FATHER WAS A FULLBACK (1949)
  6. JIM THORPE, ALL AMERICAN (1951)
  7. THE BASKETBALL FIX (1951)
  8. HOOSIERS (1986)
  9. JOCKS (1986)
  10. BULL DURHAM (1988)
  11. NESSARY ROUGHNESS (1991)
  12. THE PROGRAM (1993)
  13. RUDY (1993)
  14. A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (1993)
  15. HOOP DREAMS (1994)
  16. BLUE CHIPS (1994)
  17. THE AIR UP THERE (1994)
  18. THE BASKETBALL DIARIES (1995)
  19. THE SIXTH MAN (1997)
  20. THE WATERBOY (1998)
  21. HE GOT GAME (1998)
  22. VARSITY BLUES (1999)
  23. LOVE AND BASKETBALL (2000)
  24. REMEMBER THE TITANS (2000)
  25. RITES OF AUTUMN: 100 YEARS OF COLLEGE GRIDIRON HISTORY (2001)
  26. GLORY ROAD (2006)
  27. WE ARE MARSHALL (2006)
  28. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS (2004) MOVIE
  29. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS (2006-10) TV SERIES
  30. LEATHERHEADS (2008)
  31. THE EXPRESS (2008)
  32. THE BLIND SIDE (2009)

Other Issues Related to Sports and Society

  1. Avinash Dixit. "Strategic Behavior in Contests, " The American Economic Review (1987).
  2. James E. Long and Steven B. Caudill. "The Impact of Participation in Intercollegiate Athletics on Income and Graduation," The Review of Economics and Statistics (1991).
  3. Jennifer Jacobson. "How Much Sports Is Too Much?" The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 6, 2002.
  4. Eric Hoover. "Reading and Rioting," The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 13, 2002.
  5. Richard A. Wolfe and Daniel S. Putler. "How Tight Are the Ties That Bind Stakeholder Groups?" Organization Science (2002).
  6. Robert H. Frank. "Challenging the Myth: A Review of the Links Among College Athletic Success, Student Quality, and Donations" (Prepared for the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, May, 2004).
  7. Selena Roberts. "Auburn Trustee Boosts Everyone, Including the Chaplain," New York Times, January 3, 2005.
  8. David Armstrong. "Winning by Losing. Small Universities Have Found a Way to Raise their Profiles: Become Division I Independents," The [Wall Street] Journal Report: NCAA Basketball Tournament, March 14, 2005
  9. Kimberly Jenkins Marshall. "Recent University Marching Band Recordings," Journal of American Folklore (2007).
  10. Jack Stripling. "Bands Gone Wild," Inside Higher Ed, October 7, 2008.
  11. P. Brian Greenwood and Michael A. Kanters. "Talented Male Athletes: Exemplary Character or Questionable Characters?" Journal of Sport Behavior (32:3, 2009).
  12. David Biderman. "11 Minutes of Action," The Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2010.
  13. Sinden, Jane Lee , "The Elite Sport and Christianity Debate: Shifting Focus from Normative Values to the Conscious Disregard for Health," Journal of Religious Health (52:335–349) 2013.
  14. Agel, Julie and Jessica Schisel. "Practice Injury Rates in Collegiate Sports," Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine (23:1, 2013).
  15. Wollan, Malia. "Fresno State Loves Its Bulldogs, but So Does a Gang," New York Times, November 7, 2013.
  16. Miller, James Andrew, Steve Eder, and Richard Sandomir. "College Football’s Most Dominant Player? It’s ESPN ," New York Times, August 25, 2013.
  17. Eder, Steve, Richard Sandomir, and James Andrew Miller. "At Louisville, Athletic Boom Is Rooted in ESPN Partnership," New York Times, August 26, 2013.
  18. Sandomir, Richard, James Andrew Miller, and Steve Eder. "To Protect Its Empire, ESPN Stays on Offense," New York Times, August 27, 2013.
  19. Joshua I. Newman, "Sport Without Management," Journal of Sport Management (28:2014).

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