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Explores race and gender in college sports past and present, and discusses unfair playing fields, those who have spoken out against racism, women's basketball, and the role of money among other subjects. Includes discussion questions, sidebars, photographs, a glossary, and further resources.
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Contains a collection of essays offering opposing viewpoints on controversies surrounding the business of college sports. Discusses the topics of the salaries of coaches, superconferences, and player compensation. Includes a list of organizations to contact for additional information.
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"Impelled by runaway spending and rampant corruption, America's much-beloved games of college basketball and football are being threatened. The specter of billion-dollar sums being showered on coaches, voracious athletic directors, hordes of support staff and lavish comforts for fans has led to a near-deafening roar to pay the players. The injustice of such sums being amassed, in the main, from the labor of young men of color many of whom come from...
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Can a guy and girl ever be just friends?
I used to think so but now, I'm not so sure. Emerson and I met freshman year of high school and we've been tight ever since. I've been pretty good about keeping her locked in the girls I don't think about having sex with part of my brain. Which is no easy feat because, let's face it, unless we're related, you're potential spank bank material. Luckily for me, Southern University has an overabundance
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Breast Stroke is an opposites attract short college romance with a strong curvy heroine and a dirty talking hero. It is the first in the College Sports series and can be read as a standalone.
Maya
I joined the Tempt University swim team to beat records and kick ass.
Instead, I'm working my curves off trying to pick up the slack for the slow pokes on my team.
They think this is all for fun, but I'm here to win. With Districts right around the corner,...
7) Love All
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Love All is a best-friends-to-lovers college sports romance with a happily ever after. It is the second book in the College Sports series and can be read as a standalone.
Harley
I'm a record-breaking college tennis champion on track to going pro with my doubles partner and best friend since childhood, Chris Marlowe.
My life is perfect, until Chris unexpectedly quits the team and stops talking to me altogether.
When he asks to play a game with me...
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Millions of people follow college football with great passion, enjoying beloved traditions and exciting game action. For many players, however, college football is more than just fight songs and school spirit it s a big step on the road to pro football. The truth is that only a select few make that transition, however. How is that situation affecting how college football is played and run? What changes are coming that will balance the scales? Or is...
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"Every Saturday in the fall, it happens: on college campuses, in bars, at gatherings of fervent alumni, millions come together to watch a sport that inspires a uniquely American brand of passion and outrage. It's a sport that so often hinges on the unpredictable: a hook-and-lateral, a Hail Mary, or a play so implausible that it is only known as The Play. It's a sport that, in these moments, feels a bit like life and death, if only slightly more important....
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In 2015, when Ohio State took on the University of Oregon in the first College Football Playoff championship game, millions of sports fans tuned in. But back in 1869, when Rutgers University and Princeton University played the first-ever college football game, no one predicted the national spectacle that a college football championship game would become. Author Matt Doeden takes readers on a journey from the disorganized games of the early years to...
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Any college football fan, no matter where they live now or where their college loyalty lies has opinions about the game. Now, SI's team of experts once and for all settles the questions college football fans have debated since the first kickoff in College Football's Greatest. For instance, which is the greatest program of all time, Alabama or Notre Dame? What about Ohio State? Where do Tim Tebow and Peyton Manning rank among the best college quarterbacks?...
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"Both dispatch and dissertation, NPR contributor Diane Roberts, an English professor at Florida State University, gives a insider's account of a big time college football program in the midst of controversy, while examining the impact and legacy of the sport's popularity in America today"--
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A go-to guide for all high school students that dream of participating in college athletics. Not only addressing how to get recruited by top colleges and universities, but also how to excel academically in both high school and college to ensure a successful career as a student-athlete, this guidebook for getting scholarship money offers insider information, tips for understanding the NCAA recruiting rules, information on what colleges really want...