Title: Fractured focus :
Authors: Lapchick, Richard Edward.
Date: 1986
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Physical description: xix, 388 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Contents: Intercollegiate athletic abuses. Abuses in college athletics / Mark Asher -- The collegiate athletic arms race : origins and implications of the "Rule 48" controversy / Harry Edwards -- The intercollegiate sport cartel and its consequences for athletes / George H. Sage -- Pass one for the Gipper : student-athletes and university coursework / Joseph Raney, Terry Knapp, and Mark Small -- The coming demise of intercollegiate athletics / James H. Frey -- Racism in sports. The image of intercollegiate sports and the civil rights movement : a historian's view / Adolph H. Grundman -- An environmental explanation for race differences in basketball performance / Donal E. Carlston -- The promised land / Richard E. Lapchick -- Women in sport. Role conflict of women as athletes in the United States / Mary M. Bell -- Women's collegiate athletics : incidents in the struggle for influence and control / Judy Jensen -- A political analysis of the possibility of impact alternatives for the accomplishment of feminist objectives within American intercollegiate sport / Donna A. Lopiano. Youth sports. Excerpt from Giant stepts / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Peter Knobler -- Are children's competitive team sports teaching corporate values? / Gai Ingham Berlage -- The behavior of youth sport coaches : crisis on the bench / Bennett J. Lombardo -- Dealing with the emotions of childhood sports / Bill Bruns and Tom Tutko -- Violence. Sports violence : a definition / Michael D. Smith -- The structure of sport and participant violence / John Schneider and D. Stanley Eitzen -- Gambling. Sports, gambling and television : the emerging alliance / H. Roy Kaplan -- Point spreads and journalistic ethics / Philip Straw -- Drugs. Drug abuse in baseball / Murray Chass and Michael Goodwin -- The media. Sports world revisited / Robert Lipsyte -- Ethics in sports journalism / Garry J. Smith and Terry A. Valeriote -- Sports in the international arena. A political history of the modern Olympic Games / Richard E. Lapchick -- The free enterprise Olympics / Harry Edwards -- 1976 and 1980 Olympic boycott media coveratge : all the news that fits / Vincent Mosco and Levon Chorbajian -- SDports and apartheid : the world closes in / Richard E. Lapchick.
Subject headings (LCSH): Sports--Social aspects--United States; Sports--Social aspects.