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  • The College Football Problem

    How Money and Power Corrupted the Game and How We Can Fix That

    de Rick Telander ...
    A detailed expose on the corruption in college football by acclaimed sportswriter Rick Telander, with a foreword by Rick Reilly!In 1989, when Rick Telander first published The Hundred Yard Lie, he proposed that big-time college football should be professionalized.In doing so, Telander was ahead of his time, for the problems that he outlined more than thirty years ago are still relevant today—and ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Beer and Circus

    How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education

    de Murray Sperber ...
    Beer and Circus presents a no-holds-barred examination of the troubled relationship between college sports and higher education from a leading authority on the subject.Murray Sperber turns common perceptions about big-time college athletics inside out. He shows, for instance, that contrary to popular belief the money coming in to universities from sports programs never makes it to academic ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Onward to Victory

    The Crisis That Shaped College Sports

    de Murray Sperber ...
    From the acclaimed author of Shake Down the Thunder, Murray Sperber's Onward to Victory is a brilliant, detailed, and engrossing work of social history for not only sports fans, but anyone interested in the development of modern American culture.With the 1940 release of the classic film Knute Rockne, All American, the myth of the hero scholar-athlete was born, and with it came the age of big-time ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be

    An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

    de Frank Bruni ...
    Read award-winning journalist Frank Bruni's New York Times bestseller: an inspiring manifesto about everything wrong with today's frenzied college admissions process and how to make the most of your college years.Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • America's Game

    de Michael MacCambridge ...
    It’s difficult to imagine today—when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country’s dominant sports entity—but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of a single generation in postwar America, the game charted an extraordinary rise in popularity, becoming a smartly ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Price of Admission (Updated Edition)

    How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates

    de Daniel Golden ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A fire-breathing, righteous attack on the culture of superprivilege.”—Michael Wolff, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Fire and Fury, in the New York Times Book ReviewNOW WITH NEW REPORTING ON OPERATION VARSITY BLUESIn this explosive and prescient book, based on three years of investigative reporting, Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Golden shatters the myth of an Ameri ... Leer más

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  • Cooperstown Confidential

    Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame

    de Zev Chafets ...
    If baseball is America's national religion, then the Hall of Fame is its High Church. Being named among its 286 inductees makes you the closest thing our country has to an undisputed hero - even a secular saint. But the men in the Hall of Fame are no angels. Among their number are gamblers, drunks, race-baiters, at least one murderer, and perhaps the greatest collection of bona fide characters ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Game Misconduct

    Hockey's Toxic Culture and How to Fix It

    de Evan F. Moore, Jashvina Shah ...
    A bracing call to arms for hockey fans, players, and coaches everywhere Those who have been lured by the the sound of skate blades slicing into fresh ice, by the incomparable speed, split-second decisions, and everything-or-nothing attitude of the game know that hockey can seem like its own world. It's all-consuming and exhilarating, boasting its own language and complex morality code. Yet in ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Meaning Of Sports

    de Michael Mandelbaum ...
    In The Meaning of Sports, Michael Mandelbaum, a sports fan who is also one of the nation's preeminent foreign policy thinkers, examines America's century-long love affair with team sports. In keeping with his reputation for writing about big ideas in an illuminating and graceful way, he shows how sports respond to deep human needs; describes the ways in which baseball, football and basketball ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Higher Education?

    How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—and What We Can Do About It

    de Andrew Hacker, Claudia Dreifus ...
    What's gone wrong at our colleges and universities—and how to get American higher education back on trackA quarter of a million dollars. It's the going tab for four years at most top-tier universities. Why does it cost so much and is it worth it?Renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus make an incisive case that the American way of higher education, now a $420 ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Crazy '08

    How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History

    de Cait N. Murphy ...
    From the perspective of 2007, the unintentional irony of Chance's boast is manifest—these days, the question is when will the Cubs ever win a game they have to have. In October 1908, though, no one would have laughed: The Cubs were, without doubt, baseball's greatest team—the first dynasty of the 20th century.Crazy '08 recounts the 1908 season—the year when Peerless Leader Frank Chance's men went ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • How Basketball Can Save the World

    13 Guiding Principles for Reimagining What's Possible

    de David Hollander ...
    A thought-provoking exploration of how basketball—and the values rooted in the game—can solve today’s most pressing issues, from the professor behind the popular New York University courseNBA and WNBA superstars, Hall of Fame players, coaches, and leading cultural figures have all dropped by New York University Professor David Hollander’s course “How Basketball Can Save the World” course to debate ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro