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Smashing Barriers

Race and Sport in the New Millennium

By: Richard Edward Lapchick

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Smashing Barriers

Race and Sport in the New Millennium

By: Richard Edward Lapchick

This book blends an insider's critique of the race politics of the sports industry withand activist's crusade against racial injustice.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1568331770

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9781568331775

Beyond the Cheers

Race as Spectacle in College Sport

By: C. Richard King,Charles Fruehling Springwood

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Beyond the Cheers

Race as Spectacle in College Sport

By: C. Richard King,Charles Fruehling Springwood

Focusing on half-time performances, commercialized stagings, media coverage, public panics, and political protests, Beyond the Cheers offers an ethnography, history, and social critique of racial spectacles in college sport. King and Springwood argue that collegiate revenue producing sports are created as a spectacle, driven by a range of contradictory meanings and exploitative practices. While Native Americans are viewed largely as empty or distorted images and African Americans are seen as both shining stars and 'troubled delinquents,' White Americans remain constant as spectators, coaches, administrators, journalists, and athletes, producing and consuming college sport, performing and policing, but seemingly unmarked as racial subjects. In consuming these spectacles, American sports fans learn to embrace inflated, contradictory, and distorted renderings of racial difference and the history of race relations in America.

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State University of New York Press

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0791490408

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9780791490402

Sport

A Critical Sociology

By: Richard Giulianotti

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Sport

A Critical Sociology

By: Richard Giulianotti

Presenting a critical sociological interpretation of modern sport, this work gives a cogent examination of a range of widely taught sociological theories and issues, including functionalism, Weberian sociology, Marxism, postmodernism and globalization.

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Polity

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0745625460

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9780745625461

Sports in American Life

A History

By: Richard O. Davies

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Sports in American Life

A History

By: Richard O. Davies

The third edition of author Richard O. Davies highly praised narrative of American sports, Sports in American Life: A History, features extensive revisions and updates to its presentation of an interpretative history of the relationship of sports to the larger themes of U.S. history. Updated include a new section on concussions caused by contact sports and new biographies of John Wooden and Joe Paterno. Features extensive revisions and updates, along with a leaner, faster-paced narrative than previous editions Addresses the social, economic, and cultural interaction between sports and gender, race, class, and other larger issues Provides expanded coverage of college sports, women in sports, race and racism in organized sports, and soccers sharp rise in popularity Features an all-new section that tackles the growing controversy of head injuries and concussions caused by contact sports

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118912454

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Sport, Ethics and Leadership

By: Jack Bowen,Ronald S. Katz,Jeffrey R. Mitchell,Donald J. Polden,Richard Walden

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Sport, Ethics and Leadership

By: Jack Bowen,Ronald S. Katz,Jeffrey R. Mitchell,Donald J. Polden,Richard Walden

Sport ethics prompt discussion of the central principles and ideals by which we all live our lives, and effective leadership in sport is invariably ethical leadership. This fascinating new introduction to sport ethics outlines key ethical theories in the context of sport as well as the fundamentals of moral reasoning.

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Taylor & Francis

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135173203X

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Cracked Coverage

Television News, the Anti-cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan Legacy

By: Jimmie Lynn Reeves,Richard Campbell

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Cracked Coverage

Television News, the Anti-cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan Legacy

By: Jimmie Lynn Reeves,Richard Campbell

Carefully documenting the deceptions and excesses of television news coverage of the so-called cocaine epidemic, Cracked Coverage stands as a bold indictment of the backlash politics of the Reagan coalition and its implicit racism, the mercenary outlook of the drug control establishment, and the enterprising reporting of crusading journalism. Blending theoretical and empirical analyses, Jimmie L. Reeves and Richard Campbell explore how TV news not only interprets "reality" in ways that reflect prevailing ideologies, but is in many respects responsible for constructing that reality. Their examination of the complexity of television and its role in American social, cultural, and political conflict is focused specifically on the ways in which American television during the Reagan years helped stage and legitimate the "war on drugs," one of the great moral panics of the postwar era. The authors persuasively argue, for example, that powder cocaine in the early Reagan years was understood and treated very differently on television and by the state than was crack cocaine, which was discovered by the news media in late 1985. In their critical analysis of 270 news stories broadcast between 1981 and 1988, Reeves and Campbell demonstrate a disturbing disparity between the earlier presentation of the middle- and upper-class "white" drug offender, for whom therapeutic recovery was an available option, and the subsequent news treatment of the inner-city "black" drug delinquent, often described as beyond rehabilitation and subject only to intensified strategies of law and order. Enlivened by provocative discussions of Nancy Reagan's antidrug activism, the dramatic death of basketball star Len Bias, and the myth of the crack baby, the book argues that Reagan's war on drugs was at heart a political spectacle that advanced the reactionary agenda of the New and Religious Right--an agenda that dismissed social problems grounded in economic devastation as individual moral problems that could simply be remedied by just saying "no." Wide ranging and authoritative, Cracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan Legacy is a truly interdisciplinary work that will attract readers across the humanities and social sciences in addition to students, scholars, journalists, and policy makers interested in the media and drug-related issues.

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Duke University Press

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0822314916

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9780822314912

Never Before, Never Again

The Autobiography of Eddie Robinson

By: Eddie Robinson,Richard Lapchick

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Never Before, Never Again

The Autobiography of Eddie Robinson

By: Eddie Robinson,Richard Lapchick

This inspiring autobiography of the most victorious coach in the history of college football chronicles Robinson's life and times at Grambling University as well as his views on coaching at a black campus during the turmoil of the civil rights movement. Foreword by George Steinbrenner, Afterword by Jesse Jackson.16-page photo insert.

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Macmillan

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0312242247

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Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society

By: Richard T. Schaefer

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Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society

By: Richard T. Schaefer

This encyclopedia offers a comprehensive look at the roles race and ethnicity play in society and in our daily lives. Over 100 racial and ethnic groups are described, with additional thematic essays offering insight into broad topics that cut across group boundaries and which impact on society.

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SAGE

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1412926947

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9781412926942

Legendary Locals of Oceanside

By: Richard Woods

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Legendary Locals of Oceanside

By: Richard Woods

Through its history, Oceanside has been a community packed with personalities, including the first Eagle Scout, first female Jewish cantor, two Freedom Riders, noteworthy scientists, and caring citizens. It is where War of 1812 general Daniel Bedell shot his musket, Ziegfeld's Gilda Gray practiced her shimmy, basketball great Art Heyman dribbled, and NFL quarterback Jay Fiedler threw his first football. Academy Award nominee David Paymer studied acting, Disney chief executive officer Robert Iger watched the Mouseketeers, and New York Yankees president Randy Levine played Little League baseball. This is the neighborhood where Jeanne Marion Doane orated for women's suffrage, Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter navigated canals, and Goldman-Sachs chief executive officer Stephen Friedman filled his piggy bank. Its foundation is the people in its religious institutions, fire department, and school district. The area's business people are unified, hard working, and charitable.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467100455

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Transforming the Urban University

Northeastern, 1996-2006

By: Richard M. Freeland

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Transforming the Urban University

Northeastern, 1996-2006

By: Richard M. Freeland

In Transforming the Urban University, Richard M. Freeland reviews how Northeastern University in Boston, historically an access-oriented, private urban university serving commuter students from modest backgrounds and characterized by limited academic ambitions and local reach, transformed itself into a selective, national, and residential research university. Having served as president during a critical decade in this transition, Freeland recounts the school's efforts to retain key features from Northeastern's urban history—an emphasis on undergraduate teaching and learning, a curriculum focused on preparing students for the workplace, its signature program of cooperative education, and its broad involvement in the life of the city—while at the same time raising admission standards, recruiting students on a regional and national basis, improving graduation rates, expanding opportunities for research and graduate education and dramatically improving its U.S. News ranking. Freeland situates the Northeastern story within the evolving context of urban higher education as well as broader trends among American universities during the second half of the twentieth century. He documents the way Northeastern maintained its historic values while making innovative use of modern marketing techniques to meet the competitive conditions of the academic marketplace. He shows how Northeastern rejected the standard model of the modern research university and instead reinvented itself as a new kind of urban university: making excellence in the undergraduate experience its top priority; stressing practice-oriented education and research; and emphasizing the academic benefits of its urban setting as well as the importance of contributing to the well-being of its host city. In chronicling Northeastern's recovery from what the school's trustees called a "near-death" experience, Freeland challenges the conventional narrative of what a university must do to achieve top-tier national status.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812295978

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NFL Football

A History of America's New National Pastime

By: Richard C. Crepeau

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NFL Football

A History of America's New National Pastime

By: Richard C. Crepeau

The new NFL Centennial Edition A multi-billion-dollar entertainment empire, the National Football League is a coast-to-coast obsession that borders on religion and dominates our sports-mad culture. But today's NFL also provides a stage for playing out important issues roiling American society. The updated and expanded edition of NFL Football observes the league's centennial by following the NFL into the twenty-first century, where off-the-field concerns compete with touchdowns and goal line stands for headlines. Richard Crepeau delves into the history of the league and breaks down the new era with an in-depth look at the controversies and dramas swirling around pro football today: Tensions between players and Commissioner Roger Goodell over collusion, drug policies, and revenue; The firestorm surrounding Colin Kaepernick and protests of police violence and inequality; Andrew Luck and others choosing early retirement over the threat to their long-term health; Paul Tagliabue's role in covering up information on concussions; The Super Bowl's evolution into a national holiday. Authoritative and up to the minute, NFL Football continues the epic American success story.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252052463

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9780252052460

Ethics, Money and Sport

This Sporting Mammon

By: Adrian Walsh,Richard Giulianotti

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Ethics, Money and Sport

This Sporting Mammon

By: Adrian Walsh,Richard Giulianotti

Written from the contrasting yet complementary perspectives of sociology and philosophy, this book explores the far-reaching ethical consequences of the runaway commodification of sport, focusing on those instances where commodification gives rise to morally undesirable consequences. The authors consider three main areas of concern for participators and observers alike: the corrosion of the core meanings and values of sport, the increasing elitism of access to sporting commodities, and the undermining of social conditions that support sporting communities. Unique in its focus on the ethical dimension of the powerful economics of today’s sport, this book will be of interest, not only to those in the fields of sports studies and ethics of sport, but also to academics, researchers and students in philosophy of morality, sociology, and the ethics of globalization as viewed through the ultimate globalized phenomenon of modern sport.

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Routledge

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1134317271

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Physical Education, Curriculum And Culture

Critical Issues In The Contemporary Crisis

By: Richard Tinning

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Physical Education, Curriculum And Culture

Critical Issues In The Contemporary Crisis

By: Richard Tinning

This collection of studies addresses contemporary issues and problems in the physical education curriculum. While each of the chapters illustrates the diverse range of practical curriculum issues currently facing physical education, the continuities between them also suggest a certain commonality of experience in Britain, North America and Au tralia. In each it is difficult not to detect at least some rumblings of the various crises - environmental, political, economic, social - that are increasingly impacting on everyday lives in the present and shaping thoughts and plans for the future. The editors stress that physical education is a part of social life and is therefore a key site for the production and legitimation of important cultural mores, values and symbols.

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Routledge

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113538746X

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Apartheid & Intl Org

By: Richard E Bissell

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Apartheid & Intl Org

By: Richard E Bissell

The historical controversy over South Africa's policy of apartheid has not been without effect on that country's participation and status in the international system. The black African states have been particularly inclined to use the public forums of intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations and the specialized agencies to press f

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0429726554

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Sports Ethics for Sports Management Professionals

By: Walter T. Champion Jr.,Richard T. Karcher,Lawrence S. Ruddell

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Sports Ethics for Sports Management Professionals

By: Walter T. Champion Jr.,Richard T. Karcher,Lawrence S. Ruddell

Sports Ethics for Sports Management Professionals provides students with the necessary tools to make ethical decisions in the sports management field. It presents several ethical models that the sports management professional can use as a guide to making ethical decisions. The text contains numerous case studies which allow students to apply the ethical decision-making process to a sports-related ethical dispute.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284171302

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9781284171303

A Cognitive Psychology of Mass Communication

By: Richard Jackson Harris

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A Cognitive Psychology of Mass Communication

By: Richard Jackson Harris

The author examines how our experiences with media affect the way we acquire knowledge and how this knowledge creates consequences for attitudes and behaviour.

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Psychology Press

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0805846603

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GOD’S BIOGRAPHY...Before the Beginning?

By: Richard Bourgeois

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GOD’S BIOGRAPHY...Before the Beginning?

By: Richard Bourgeois

ARE THERE FEMALE & MALE SPIRITS IN HEAVENS WHY DID LUCIFER CHALLENGE GOD? GOD’S POSITION ON ABORTION DID GOD HAVE A BEGINNING? WHAT GROUP WORSHIPPED GOD BEST? PROOF....A GOD! WHAT/WHERE IS HEAVEN? GOD’S REASON FOR MAN! A SOUL.....A SPIRIT? WHAT IS LIFE IN HEAVEN LIKE? WHAT IS HELL? WHAT IS PURGATORY? WHO IS THE HOLY GHOST? DID GOD MAKE A MISTAKE? WHO/WHAT/WHY GOD? DID GOD KNOW WHO WOULD EARN HEAVEN? WHY DID GOD NOT APPEAR TO MODERN MAN? WHY DID GOD ALLOW RAPE, SIN, OR MURDER? ARE LOVE ONES FROM EARTH REUNITED IN HEAVEN? WHAT HAPPENS TO THE SOUL AT DEATH OF THE BODY? DID WE BEGIN AT BIRTH OR WHERE WAS OUR SOUL/SPIRIT BEFORE? BEFORE the BEGINNING?

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493155717

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Declining by Degrees

Higher Education at Risk

By: Richard H. Hersh,John Merrow

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Declining by Degrees

Higher Education at Risk

By: Richard H. Hersh,John Merrow

What is actually happening on college campuses in the years between admission and graduation? Not enough to keep America competitive, and not enough to provide our citizens with fulfilling lives. When A Nation at Risk called attention to the problems of our public schools in 1983, that landmark report provided a convenient "cover" for higher education, inadvertently implying that all was well on America's campuses. Declining by Degrees blows higher education's cover. It asks tough--and long overdue--questions about our colleges and universities. In candid, coherent, and ultimately provocative ways, Declining by Degrees reveals: - how students are being short-changed by lowered academic expectations and standards; -why many universities focus on research instead of teaching and spend more on recruiting and athletics than on salaries for professors; -why students are disillusioned; -how administrations are obsessed with rankings in news magazines rather than the quality of learning; -why the media ignore the often catastrophic results; and -how many professors and students have an unspoken "non-aggression pact" when it comes to academic effort. Declining by Degrees argues persuasively that the multi-billion dollar enterprise of higher education has gone astray. At the same time, these essays offer specific prescriptions for change, warning that our nation is in fact at greater risk if we do nothing.

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St. Martin's Press

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1466893389

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Is There Life After Football?

Surviving the NFL

By: James A. Holstein,Richard S. Jones,George E. Koonce, Jr.

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Is There Life After Football?

Surviving the NFL

By: James A. Holstein,Richard S. Jones,George E. Koonce, Jr.

Draws upon the experiences of hundreds of former players as they describe their lives after their football days are over. It also incorporates stories about their playing careers, even before entering the NFL, to provide context for understanding their current situations. The authors begin with an analysis of the 'bubble'-like conditions of privilege that NFL players experience while playing, conditions that often leave players unprepared for the real world once they retire and must manage their own lives. The book also examines the key issues affecting former NFL players in retirement: social isolation, financial concerns, inadequate career planning, psychological challenges, and physical injuries"--Amazon.com.

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NYU Press

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1479868302

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Light Through Stained Glass

By: Dr. Richard E. Blackwell

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Light Through Stained Glass

By: Dr. Richard E. Blackwell

The week had been a long one, a week filled with problems large and small. Saturday, my usual day off, was filled with both a funeral and a wedding. As a pastor, I looked forward with delight to a day of rest so that I could be at my best on Sunday morning; but this was not to be. Not that I would be another Spurgeon, Graham, or Dunham if I had enough rest; but I could at least offer my sermon with clarity, drive, and care. Perhaps I was feeling a bit sorry for myself as the week ended. Alas, I have rather large clay feet.

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1465318801

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The Political Economy of Namibia

An Annotated Critical Bibliography

By: Tore Linné Eriksen,Richard Moorsom

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The Political Economy of Namibia

An Annotated Critical Bibliography

By: Tore Linné Eriksen,Richard Moorsom

Research institutes and documentation centres.

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Nordic Africa Institute

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9171062971

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International Sport

A Bibliography, 1995-1999 : Including Index to Sports History Journals, Conference Proceedings and Essay Collections

By: Richard William Cox

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International Sport

A Bibliography, 1995-1999 : Including Index to Sports History Journals, Conference Proceedings and Essay Collections

By: Richard William Cox

There has been an explosion in the quantity of sports history literature published in recent years, making it increasingly difficult to keep abreast of developments. The annual number of publications has increased from around 250 to 1,000 a year over the last decade. This is due in part to the fact that during the late 1980s and 90s, many clubs, leagues and governing bodies of sport have celebrated their centenaries and produced histories to mark this occasion and commemorate their achievements. It is also the result of the growing popularity and realisation of the importance of sport history research within academe. This international bibliography of books, articles, conference proceedings and essays in the English language is a one-stop for the sports historian to know what is new.

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Psychology Press

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0714652601

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Longhorn Hoops

The History of Texas Basketball

By: Richard Pennington,Denton A. Cooley

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Longhorn Hoops

The History of Texas Basketball

By: Richard Pennington,Denton A. Cooley

Longhorn Hoops documents the history of basketball at the University of Texas. For men's basketball, Richard Pennington goes season by season, describing every game the Longhorns have ever played from 1906 to 1998. He does the same for women's basketball, except for the first two chapters, which cover longer spans of time leading up to the establishment of basketball as a varsity sport for women in 1974. Pennington demonstrates that Texas basketball, while always secondary to King Football, actually has a long and colorful history. Beside stories of games won or lost, points scored, and rebounds collected, Pennington recalls the orange-and-white stars of yesteryear--from Clyde Littlefield to Reggie Freeman--and brings the greatest teams to life, including the unbeaten Steers of 1924, the Final Four team of 1947, Harold Bradley's 1963 team, Abe Lemons' 1978 NIT champions, and Tom Penders' 1990 Longhorns. Perhaps the most interesting story in Longhorn Hoops is how Anna Hiss, director of women's physical education at Texas from 1921 to 1957, helped lead a nationwide movement against intercollegiate competition for women, which shut down UT women's basketball for several decades and and made progress in the 1960s and 1970s much more difficult. Some determined co-eds got it going again, and, with the energy and direction of women's athletic director Donna Lopiano and coach Jody Conradt (whose teams have won more than 700 games), the Longhorns built a powerhouse program that reached its apex with an undefeated team in 1986, winning the NCAA championship with the heroics of freshman star Clarissa Davis. Basketball, as Pennington notes in his preface, is the most beautiful sport ofall, and its history at the University of Texas has now been told. This comprehensive book features a foreword by Dr. Denton Cooley, the world-famous heart surgeon who helped the Longhorns win an SWC title in 1939.

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