Week 10: Readings on Competition and Equity


[Read any six items of interest in this list]

• Jane English. "Sex Equality in Sports," Philosophy and Public Affairs (1978).


• Jeffrey T. Sammons. "'Race' and Sport: A Critical, Historical Examination," Journal of Sport History (1994).


• James Fallows. "Throwing Like a Girl," The Atlantic Monthly (1996).


• Commitment to Equity (Princeton University: NCAA Self-Study, Certification 1997-98).


• Neil J. Sullivan. "Baseball and Race: The Limits of Competition," Journal of Negro History (1998).


• Commitment to Equity (University of Florida: NCAA Self-Study, Certification 1998)


• Welch Suggs. "For Black Americans, Better Than a Bowl Game," The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 20, 2000.


• Elizabeth Crowley. "Title IX Levels Playing Field," The Wall Street Journal, June 22, 2000.


• 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).


• Welch Suggs. "For Top Women's Basketball Players, the Ideal Practice Includes Men. " The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 23, 2001.


• "International Student-Athlete Issues," Sports Law Letter and by the Book Compliance Alert (Holland & Knight, LLP) April 27, 2001.


• Dana Mulhauser. "NCAA Cracks Down on Foreign Athletes, While Urging Members to Relax Rules," The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 12, 2001.


• Welch Suggs. "Left Behind," The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 26, 2001.


• Tamela McNulty Eitle and David J. Eitle. "Race, Cultural Capital, and the Educational Effects of Participation in Sports," Sociology of Education (2002).


• Selena Roberts. "Two-Way Street When It Comes to Scholarships," The New York Times, December 25, 2002.


• Welch Suggs. "Cutting the Field," The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 6, 2003.


• Welch Suggs. "The Recruits," The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 3, 2003.


• Bill Finley. "College Basketball Preview: Coaches Aim to Recruit for Today; Players Have Eyes on Tomorrow," New York Times, November 30, 2003.


• Thomas McLaughlin. "'Man to Man': Basketball, Movement, and the Practice of Masculinity," The South Atlantic Quarterly, (2004).


• David C. Ogden. "The Welcome Theory: An Approach to Studying African American Youth Interest and Involvement in Baseball," Nine (2004).


• Joy L. Gaston-Gayles. "Examining Academic and Athletic Motivation Among Student Athletes at a Division I University," Journal of College Student Development (2004).


• 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).


• 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.


• 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.


• Michael Weinreb. "Playing for Fun, and Little Else, on Football's Edge," The New York Times, July 18, 2006.


• 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).


• Carol Paik. "A Few Things I Know about Softball," Fourth Genre (2007).


• Bob Gorman. "All-American Girls: Photoessay,[women's professional baseball league]," Nine (15, 2007).


• 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).


• 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).


• Douglas Hartmann. "High School Sports Participation and Educational Attainment: Recognizing, Assessing, and Utilizing the Relationship," University of Minnesota, 2008


• Joel Millman. "These Days, Everybody's All-American Just May Be a Haitian," The Wall Street Journal, December 4, 2009.


• Dylan A. T. Miner. "Provocations on Sneakers: The Multiple Significations of Athletic Shoes, Sport, Race, and Masculinity," The New Centennial Review (2009).


• Jere Longman. "UConn Women Are Good for the Game," The New York Times, March 15, 2010.


• 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.


• Charles L. Kennedy. "A New Frontier For Women's Sports (Beyond Title IX)," Gender Issues (27, 2010).


• Scott Jaschik. "Transgender Athletes, College Teams," Inside Higher Ed, October 5, 2010.


• Thomas Aiello "The Heritage Fallacy: Race, Loyalty, and the First Grambling-Southern Football Game," History of Education Quarterly (50:4, 2010).


• Robert O. Deaner, 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)


• Moneque Walker Pickett, 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)


• Changing the Culture of Youth Sports, Safe Kids Worldwide, August 2014


• "Competitive Youth Sports," ESPN.com, July 16


• NCAA Race and Gender Demographics Database


• New Jake. "Pacific 12 Conference Promotes Its Teams, and U.S. College Athletics Model, in China," Inside HigherEd, September 4, 2015


• Zach Schonbrun. "As Lacrosse Rises, Its Final Four Falls Fast," New York Times Mary 22, 2015


• Brian Costa. "MLB All-Star Game: The Kids Are Taking Over Baseball," Wall Street Journal, July 13, 2015


• Ken Belson. "As Worries Rise and Players Flee, a Missouri School Board Cuts Football," New York Times September 28, 2015


• Brian Costa. "Why Children Are Abandoning Baseball," Wall Street Journal, May 20, 2015


• Jere Longman. "High School Football, Inc.," New York Times, September 18, 2015


• Frederick Dreier. "Does High-School Swimming Matter? (As California finally holds a statewide high-school swim meet, elite swimmers face a dilemma: whether to compete for their school or focus on bigger things)," Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2015.


• Michael S. Rosenwald. "Are Parents Ruining Youth Sports?" Washington Post October 4. 2015


• Dara Shifrer, et al. "College-Going Benefits of High School Sports Participation: Race and Gender Differences Over Three Decades," Youth and Society (47:3, 2015)


• Jimmy Golen. "Highly Rated Recruiting Class Could Boost Harvard Basketball," AP, December 19, 2015


• Marc Tracy. "Coaching Carousel Spins Ever Faster," The New York Times, December 1, 2015


• Aaron Wellman, et al. "Quantification of Competitive Game Demands of NCAA Division I College Football Players Using Global Positioning Systems," Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research (30:1, 2015)


• Brad Wolverton. "NCAA Eases Scholarship Restrictions, Raising Concerns Over Competitive Equity," The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 17, 2016


• Ben Cohen. "Ivy League Basketball Finally Merits Your Respect," The Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2016


• Cary A. Caro and Adam Elder. "The Relationship between Spending and Winning in College Baseball," International Journal of Sports Science, (12:3, 2017)


• Joshua D. Pitts and Brent A. Evans. "Evidence on The Importance of Cognitive Ability Tests for NFL Quarterbacks: What Are the Relationships Among Wonderlic Scores, Draft Positions and Nfl Performance Outcomes?" Applied Economics (50, 2017)


• Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. "NCAA Institutes New Transfer Rule," Inside Higher Ed, July 6, 2018.


• John Thelin. "The Impact on College Sports Programs If Athletes Are Paid," Inside Higher Ed, February 12, 2018.


• Brent A. Evans and Joshua D. Pitts. "Cross-Sport Recruiting Effects in NCAA D1 Football and Basketball," Journal of Sports Economics (19, 2018)


• Aju J Fenn and David Berri. "Drafting a Successful Wide Receiver in the NFL--Hail Mary?" International Journal of Sport Finance (13, 2018)


• Marc Tracy. "Rewriting the Rules (and Attitudes) for College Football Transfers," The New York Times, November 2, 2018


• Marc Tracy. "Notre Dame Is Good and Lucky and ... Notre Dame," The New York Times, November 16, 2018


• Brian Costa and Laine Higgins. "California Will Allow College Athletes to Earn Endorsement Money. Here's How It Could Change College Sports" The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 30, 2019


• Timothy Williams. "Poor Schools Keep Getting Crushed in Football. Is It Time to Level the Playing Field?" New York Times, Sept. 22, 2019


• Ralph D. Russo. "NFL at 100: How college football became the pipeline to NFL," (2019 August)


• Rachel Marty. "High-Resolution Shot Capture Reveals Systematic Biases and an Improved Method for Shooter Evaluation," MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, 2018?


• Michael Powell. "Canada Becomes a Basketball Factory," The New York Times June 8, 2019


• James Surowiecki. "Beautiful. Violent. American. The N.F.L. at 100," The New York Times, December 20, 2019


• Jason Gay. "The NCAA Enters the 21st Century. And the 20th," The Wall Street Journal, October 31, 2019