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).
- Neal Johnson. "NCAA 'Point Shaving' as an Artifact of the Regression Effect and the Lack of Tie Games," Journal of Sports Economics (2009).
- Daniel I. Rees and Kevin T. Schnepel. "College Football Games and Crime," 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.
- Rich Cohen. "They Taught America How to Watch Football," The Atlantic, October 2012.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- "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
- Michael A. Messner and Michela Musto. "Where are the Kids?" Sociology of Sport Journal (21:2014)
- 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)
- Craig Fehrman. "How Do You Make a Basketball Star?" The Wall Street Journal, November 8, 2016
- Seth Berkman. "Chasing Upsets of March, Ivy League Joins the Conference Tourney Crowd," The New York Times, March 2, 2017
- Laine Higgins. "What Football Crisis? In Alabama, the Game's Hold Only Gets Stronger," The Wall Street Journal, September 7, 2017.
- Jason F. Arnold and Robert M. Sade. "Wearable Technologies in Collegiate Sports: The Ethics of Collecting Biometric Data From Student-Athletes," American Journal of Bioethics (17:1, 2017)
- Joshua Hunt. "The Secret Betrayal that Sealed Nike's Special Influence over The University of Oregon," Pacific Standard, October 18, 2018
- Marc Tracy. "Three Found Guilty in N.C.A.A. Basketball Recruiting Scheme," The New York Times, October 24, 2018
- NCAA. Changes in the Number of Division I Graduate Transfers, June 2018, Revised September 2018
- Bradford Strand, Sean Brotherson, and Tyler Tracy. "Gamesmanship Beliefs and Ethical Decision Making of College Athletes," The Physical Educator (75, 2018)
- Caitlin Rugg, et al. "The Effects of Playing Multiple High School Sports on National Basketball Association Players' Propensity for Injury and Athletic Performance Caitlin," The American Journal of Sports Medicine (46:2, 2018).
- Alan Blinder. "When the Quarterback Earns a Degree and Switches Colleges," The New York Times, September 5, 2019
- Kent Babb. "At Liberty University, Jerry Falwell Jr. Bets on Big-Time Football, with a Disgraced Coach," The Washington Post, August 29, 2019
- Michael McCann. "Why the NCAA Lost Its Latest Landmark Case in the Battle Over What Schools Can Offer Athletes," The Wall Street Journal, March 8, 2019
- Kristi Dosh. "Marketers Bullish on Monetization Opportunities for NCAA Athletes with NIL Rights,” Forbes, November 25, 2019
- Ben Cohen , Jared Diamond and Andrew Beaton. "The Decade When Numbers Broke Sports," The Wall Street Journal, December 19, 2019
- Greta Anderson. "NCAA Board of Governors Approves Name, Image, Likeness Guidelines," Inside HigherEd April, 30, 2020
- Laine Higgins and Louise Radnofsky. "NCAA Wants to Allow Athletes to Cash In...to a Point," The Wall Street Journal, April 29, 2020
- John Feinstein. "Coaches Strongly Oppose A Transfer Waiver, So Don't Expect The NCAA To Do The Right Thing," Washington Post, May4, 2020
- Brent Kendall, Louise Radnofsky, and Laine Higgins. "NCAA Takes Another Court Hit on Athlete Compensation," The Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2020
- Emily Giambalvo. "Power Five Conferences Ask Congress To 'Not Wait For The NCAA' On Player Compensation," The Washington Post, May 29, 2020
- Roger Lowenstein. 'Losers' Review: The Lessons of Defeat (Review of Book by Mary Pilon and Louisa Thomas)," The Wall Street Journal, August 27, 2020