Author: LANCE
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456716093
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
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Confessions of a College Football Rules Violator
Author: LANCE
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456716093
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
n/a (per SIF)
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456716093
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
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Illegal Procedure
Author: Josh Luchs
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608197220
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
For fifteen years, sports agent Josh Luchs made illegal deals with numerous college athletes, from top-tier, nationally recognized phenoms to late-round draft picks. Flagrantly flaunting NCAA and NFL Players Association rules, he made no-interest loans to players in exchange for the promise of representation on their lucrative pro contracts. After cleaning up his act in 2003, he moved to a new agency, only to be targeted and pushed out of the business for a new violation-one he arguably did not commit. Then, in October 2010, Luchs wrote a confessional article in Sports Illustrated, telling the truth about what he did and didn't do. Since then he has taken on a new role: whistle-blowing, truth-telling reformer. And in telling his own story, Luchs pulls back the curtain on the real economy of college football: how agents win players legally and otherwise, the staggering sums colleges make from an unpaid workforce, the shortfalls of supposed full-ride scholarships, and the myth of a college education given to scholarship jocks. Including new information about major players and scandalized programs such as USC, Auburn, and Ohio State, this book pulls no punches. It's a stunning and necessary read for anyone who loves the game, and the first step toward fixing a broken system. Praise for Josh Luchs' Sports Illustrated story: "There are no innocents in all this-including Luchs. The difference now is Luchs isn't claiming to be innocent." -John Feinstein, Washington Post "[Luchs pulls] the inner workings of an oily business out of the shadows."-Pat Forde, ESPN "A must-read."-New York Times
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608197220
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
For fifteen years, sports agent Josh Luchs made illegal deals with numerous college athletes, from top-tier, nationally recognized phenoms to late-round draft picks. Flagrantly flaunting NCAA and NFL Players Association rules, he made no-interest loans to players in exchange for the promise of representation on their lucrative pro contracts. After cleaning up his act in 2003, he moved to a new agency, only to be targeted and pushed out of the business for a new violation-one he arguably did not commit. Then, in October 2010, Luchs wrote a confessional article in Sports Illustrated, telling the truth about what he did and didn't do. Since then he has taken on a new role: whistle-blowing, truth-telling reformer. And in telling his own story, Luchs pulls back the curtain on the real economy of college football: how agents win players legally and otherwise, the staggering sums colleges make from an unpaid workforce, the shortfalls of supposed full-ride scholarships, and the myth of a college education given to scholarship jocks. Including new information about major players and scandalized programs such as USC, Auburn, and Ohio State, this book pulls no punches. It's a stunning and necessary read for anyone who loves the game, and the first step toward fixing a broken system. Praise for Josh Luchs' Sports Illustrated story: "There are no innocents in all this-including Luchs. The difference now is Luchs isn't claiming to be innocent." -John Feinstein, Washington Post "[Luchs pulls] the inner workings of an oily business out of the shadows."-Pat Forde, ESPN "A must-read."-New York Times
The Best American Sports Writing 2012
Author: Michael Wilbon
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547336977
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Presents an anthology of the best sports writing published in 2014, selected from American magazines and newspapers.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547336977
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Presents an anthology of the best sports writing published in 2014, selected from American magazines and newspapers.
Sports in America
Author: Oliver Trager
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A compilation of newspaper editorials on the subject of sports in America.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A compilation of newspaper editorials on the subject of sports in America.
Foul or Fair?
Author: Larry Atkins
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476650993
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
There's more to sports than what occurs during games. Check your social media, listen to sports talk radio, or watch ESPN--there are daily stories of social issues in sports regarding concussions, playing hurt, gambling, Olympics and politics, athletes as social activists, paying college athletes, recruiting violations, academics, youth sports, diversity and gender issues, hazing, athletes' mental health, disabled athletes' rights, sportsmanship, and media coverage. How do these issues affect athletes, fans, and society? Written equally for casual and hardcore fans, this book analyzes social and ethical issues in sports in a lively, journalistic manner, combining quotes from writers, broadcasters, athletes, coaches and others with the author's observations. It shows pros and cons of how sports affect our daily lives and society. While sports inspire and excite us and lead to social change like the civil rights movement, Title IX, and rights of disabled people, controversies surrounding sports can be divisive even as sports work as a uniting factor in society.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476650993
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
There's more to sports than what occurs during games. Check your social media, listen to sports talk radio, or watch ESPN--there are daily stories of social issues in sports regarding concussions, playing hurt, gambling, Olympics and politics, athletes as social activists, paying college athletes, recruiting violations, academics, youth sports, diversity and gender issues, hazing, athletes' mental health, disabled athletes' rights, sportsmanship, and media coverage. How do these issues affect athletes, fans, and society? Written equally for casual and hardcore fans, this book analyzes social and ethical issues in sports in a lively, journalistic manner, combining quotes from writers, broadcasters, athletes, coaches and others with the author's observations. It shows pros and cons of how sports affect our daily lives and society. While sports inspire and excite us and lead to social change like the civil rights movement, Title IX, and rights of disabled people, controversies surrounding sports can be divisive even as sports work as a uniting factor in society.
Editorials on File
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Missoula
Author: Jon Krakauer
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0804170568
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A devastating exposé of colleges and local law enforcement.... A substantive deep dive into the morass of campus sex crimes, where the victim is too often treated like the accused.” —Entertainment Weekly Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, home to a highly regarded state university whose beloved football team inspires a passionately loyal fan base. Between January 2008 and May 2012, hundreds of students reported sexual assaults to the local police. Few of the cases were properly handled by either the university or local authorities. In this, Missoula is also typical. In these pages, acclaimed journalist Jon Krakauer investigates a spate of campus rapes that occurred in Missoula over a four-year period. Taking the town as a case study for a crime that is sadly prevalent throughout the nation, Krakauer documents the experiences of five victims: their fear and self-doubt in the aftermath; the skepticism directed at them by police, prosecutors, and the public; their bravery in pushing forward and what it cost them. These stories cut through abstract ideological debate about acquaintance rape to demonstrate that it does not happen because women are sending mixed signals or seeking attention. They are victims of a terrible crime, deserving of fairness from our justice system. Rigorously researched, rendered in incisive prose, Missoula stands as an essential call to action.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0804170568
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A devastating exposé of colleges and local law enforcement.... A substantive deep dive into the morass of campus sex crimes, where the victim is too often treated like the accused.” —Entertainment Weekly Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, home to a highly regarded state university whose beloved football team inspires a passionately loyal fan base. Between January 2008 and May 2012, hundreds of students reported sexual assaults to the local police. Few of the cases were properly handled by either the university or local authorities. In this, Missoula is also typical. In these pages, acclaimed journalist Jon Krakauer investigates a spate of campus rapes that occurred in Missoula over a four-year period. Taking the town as a case study for a crime that is sadly prevalent throughout the nation, Krakauer documents the experiences of five victims: their fear and self-doubt in the aftermath; the skepticism directed at them by police, prosecutors, and the public; their bravery in pushing forward and what it cost them. These stories cut through abstract ideological debate about acquaintance rape to demonstrate that it does not happen because women are sending mixed signals or seeking attention. They are victims of a terrible crime, deserving of fairness from our justice system. Rigorously researched, rendered in incisive prose, Missoula stands as an essential call to action.
Confessions of a Coach
Author: Norm Sloan
Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press
ISBN: 9781558531291
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
An inside story of what it is like to coach big-time college basketball. Coach Sloan writes about the petty dishonest tactics the NCAA uses to extract accusations against coaches who have fallen into its disfavor, integration of big-time basketball in the South, temperamental players, and the Halloween Massacre that ended his career at the University of Florida.
Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press
ISBN: 9781558531291
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
An inside story of what it is like to coach big-time college basketball. Coach Sloan writes about the petty dishonest tactics the NCAA uses to extract accusations against coaches who have fallen into its disfavor, integration of big-time basketball in the South, temperamental players, and the Halloween Massacre that ended his career at the University of Florida.
Friends' Intelligencer
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Yale Alumni Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description