Reversing field
Subtitle: examining commercialization, labor, gender, and race in 21st century sports law
By: editors, André Douglas Pond Cummings, Anne Marie Lofaso.
Contributors: Cummings, Andre Douglas Pond.; Lofaso, Anne Marie.
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Morgantown
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9781933202549; 9781933202556
Subjects: Sports -- Law and legislation -- United States
Description: Reversing Field invites students, professionals, and enthusiasts of sport - whether law, management and marketing or the game itsf -to explore the legal issues and regulations surounding collegiate and professional athletics in the United States.

This theoretical and methodological interrogation of sports law openly addresses race, labor, gender, and the commercialization of sports, while offering solutions to the disruptions that threaten its very foundation during an era of increased media serutiny and consumerism.

In over thirty chapters, academics, practitioners, and critics vigorously confront and debate matters such as the Arms Race, gender bias, racism, the Rooney Rule, and steroid use, offering new thought and resolution to the vexing legal issues that confront sports in the 21st century. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: More lightning and less thunder: the challenge for NCAA athletics / Bernard Franklin; title: The value and perils of intercollegiate athletics : a presidential perspective / David C. Hardesty, Jr; title: Exploring the commercialized arms race metaphor / Alfred Mathewson; title: Describing racism as asymmetrical market imperfections, or how to determine whether the NBA dress code is racist / Andre L. Smith; title: Athletes as television celebrities : why we watch; how they benefit; must they be responsible / Sherri Burr; title: Balls or strikes : are economic weapons finding the zone? / Jeffrey Hirsch; title: The 1994-'95 baseball strike and National Labor Relations Board : to the precipice and back again / William B. Gould, IV; title: Baseball player's strike : a case study in labor's use of its most effective economic weapon / Dennis Walsh; title: Keynote address / William B. Gould, IV; title: False/positives : debating the merits of drug testing / Anne Marie Lofaso; title: The temptation of performance-enhancing drugs / André Douglas Pond Cummings; title: Performance-enhancing drugs and how they affect today's athlete : views from a medical doctor / Dr. Julian Bailes; title: From Barry Bonds to USADA : protecting the interests of 'drug-free' athletes / Timothy Davis; title: Challenging the premise of steroid testing in sports / David Cornwell; title: The invisible pregnant athlete & the promise of Title IX / Deborah Brake; title: Title IX backlash and intercollegiate athletics / Barbara Osborne; title: Reflections of a former athlete as a young woman : growing up under Title IX / Anne Marie Lofaso; title: Girls can play, too : has the lack of female leadership in NCAA athletics become an afterthought? / Bethany Swaton; title: Race in sports : the continuing dilemma / Leonard J. Elmore; title: Racing from the past : exposing racism in today's collegiate athletics / André Douglas Pond Cummings; title: Using social psychology to evaluate race and law in sports / Michael McCann; title: The legacy of Brown : commodification of the African American student-athlete? / Dana D. Brooks and Ronald Althouse; title: From the inside looking out : racism in men's collegiate coaching / Marlon LeBlanc; title: Progress realized? : the continuing American Indian mascot quandary / André Douglas Pond Cummings; title: Professional equality : the Rooney Rule / Todd J. Clark; title: Minorities are separate and unequal : a look at the minority hiring practices in collegiate and professional athletics / Floyd Keith; title: The changing landscape of African Americans in sports / Kenneth Shropshire; title: Pushing weight / André Douglas Pond Cummings; title: The critical role of the Fritz Pollard Alliance / Cyrus Mehri; title: The Fritz Pollard Alliance, the Rooney Rule, and the quest to "level the playing field" in the National Football League / N. Jeremi Duru.