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Ethics and College Sports: Ethics, Sports, and the University (Issues in Academic Ethics)

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Peter French casts a critical eye on big time collegiate sports and their effects on higher education. His work is similar to that of Murray Sperber ("Beer and Circus" and "College Sports, Inc."). French focuses on three commonly held beliefs about college sports that he finds to be largely mythical: that college athletes are true amateurs, that college sports inherently provides character education to its participants, and that college sports provides funding to the university in general. He also examines the issue of gender equity and finds that even several decades after Title Nine, all is not well in that regard either. His final chapter describes what he considers to be the reality of big time college sports, that they are primarily an entertainment and not an educational endeavor.

This book, along with those by Sperber and others, raise important questions about the nature of intercollegiate athletics in the United States.

--Vince Prygoski, author of "Worst to First, or, a 'Shock'ing tale of Women's Basketball in Motown"