Zimbalist Unpaid Professionals

Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports
With a New postscript by the author
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2307-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

ZimbalistAndrew:
Andrew Zimbalist is the Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College. He has published twelve books, including Baseball and Billions and (with Roger Noll) Sports, Jobs and Taxes. He has written widely on comparative economics and has consulted extensively in the sports industry. Most recently, he consulted for the National Basketball Players Association during the 1998-99 lockout. A frequent contributor to aca-demic journals as well as to publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, he was chosen by the Village Voice as the 1998 sports journalist of the year.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zimbalist, Andrew

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Chapter One Introduction 3

Chapter Two The Student as Athlete 16

Chapter Three Gender Equity I: Equal Opportunity for Athletes 54

Chapter Four Gender Equity II: Equal Pay for Coaches 74

Chapter Five The Media: Commercialization and Stratification 90

Chapter Six Commercial Connections 125

Chapter Seven The Bottom Line: Deficit or Surplus? 149

Chapter Eight The NCAA: Managing the System 173

Chapter Nine Whither Big-Time College Sports? Reform and the Future 188

Notes 207

Index 245

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Zimbalist is the Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College. He has published twelve books, including Baseball and Billions and (with Roger Noll) Sports, Jobs and Taxes. He has written widely on comparative economics and has consulted extensively in the sports industry. Most recently, he consulted for the National Basketball Players Association during the 1998-99 lockout. A frequent contributor to aca-demic journals as well as to publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, he was chosen by the Village Voice as the 1998 sports journalist of the year.