Sports in America / edited by Lynn M. Messina.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
H.W. Wilson,
2001.
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| Series: | Reference shelf ;
v. 73, no. 2. |
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Table of Contents:
- pt.1. America's pastimes: Sports and life; lessons to be learned / Jeff Kemp
- Hitting the sweet spot / Stephen Lehman
- Out of their league / Jay Stuller
- An American sport revs up
- They got more than just game / Sara Hammel and Anna Mulrine
- Tennis racket / Patrick Hruby
- pt.2. Youth sports: Challenger baseball / Kerry Pianoforte
- As American as Volvos and Rovers / Bedra Galant
- Out of control / William Nack and Lester Muson
- Second impact syndrome; sports confront consequences of concussions / Jeffrey H. Tyler and Michael E. Nelson
- pt.3. College and semi-pro sports: Athletes in big-time college sport / Dave Meggyesy
- Backlash against Title IX; an end run around the female athletes / Andrew Zimbalist
- College athletes deserve some equity / Craig Greenlee
- Inside the NBA; springing a league / Jackie MacMullan and David Sabino
- Base hits; there are major-league benefits in the minors / Matthew J. Bernthal and Peter J. Graham
- pt.4. The good, the great, and the ugly: The greatest show on earth / Rick Reilly
- Touched by greatness / David Scott
- God bless Lance Armstrong / Heather Lende
- A season of shame / Mark Starr and Allison Samuels
- Boxing reformers should go for KO / Jack Newfield and Wallace Matthews
- pt.5. The business of sports: From Hearst to Stern; the shaping of an industry over a century / Rick Burton
- Goal lines, baselines, and bottom lines; can pro sports survive prosperity? / Robert Jabaily
- What price victory? Too much for most fans / Mark Dolliver
- The ultimate expansion / Eric M. Leifer
- Is it a stadium or a commercial? / Filip Bondy
- Going to extremes / Laura Petrecca
- pt.6. The Olympics: The Special Olympics; a tradition of excellence / Chris Privett
- "The athletes are the games" / Carl Lewis
- Women of the world / Cathy Harasta
- World strives to purify Olympic flame / Ilene R. Prusher, Ruth Walker ... [et al.]
- Drug scandal shines spotlight on image / Bruce Horovitz.