Week 11: Readings on the Culture of Winning and the Amateur Athlete
[Read the required item [⇒], and any other four items of interest in this list]
⇒ 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.
- Welch Suggs. "The NCAA Debates the Meaning of Amateurism," The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 11, 2000.
- "Pay for Play Resurfaces, But NCAA Still Opposed," The NCAA News, March 17, 2003.
- 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.
- Stefan Fatsis. "Where Are They Now? Their Tournament Is Over," The [Wall Street] Journal Report: NCAA Basketball Tournament, March 14, 2005.
- Michael S. Harris. "Message in a Bottle: University Advertising During Bowl Games," Innovation in Higher Education (2009).
- Daniel I. Rees and Kevin T. Schnepel. "College Football Games and Crime," Journal of Sports Economics (2009).
- Neal Johnson. "NCAA 'Point Shaving' as an Artifact of the Regression Effect and the Lack of Tie Games," Journal of Sports Economics (2009).
- Matthew P. McAllister. "Hypercommercialism, Televisuality, and the Changing Nature of College Sports Sponsorship," American Behavioral Scientist (53, 2010).
- Allen Sack. "Ralph Nader and 'Pay for Play'," Inside HigherEd, April 15, 2011.
- 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)
- George F. Will, "The Irresistable Force of College Football," The Washington Post, November 9, 2011.
- Rich Cohen, "They Taught America How to Watch Football," The Atlantic, October 2012.
- Daniel A. Griffith "An Analytical Perspective on Sporting Events Attendance: The 2007-2008 US NCAA College Bowl Games," Applied Geography (30, 2010).
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- "Estimated Probability of Competing in Athletics Beyond the High School Interscholastic Level," NCAA, 2013
- Bill Pennington. "Hidden Threats to Young Athletes," New York Times, May 11, 2013
- Kevin Kriegera 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)
- 2013-14 High School Athletics Participation Survey Conducted by the National Federation of State High School Associations (Based on competition at the high school level in the 2013-14 school year)
- Michael A. Messner and Michela Musto, "Where are the Kids?" Sociology of Sport Journal (21:2014)
- Craig Fehrman, "How Do You Make a Basketball Star?" The Wall Street Journal, November 8, 2016