Book Review, <em>Big-Time Sports in American Universities</em>
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Charles T. Clotfelter. Big-Time Sports in American Universities . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2011.Rather than attempt a survey of college athletics on all scales large and small, Charles Clotfelter, in Big-Time Sports in American Universities , restricts his focus to the narrower realm of what he calls "big-time athletics": the highly-commercialized competition concentrated in football and basketball and engaged in by several hundred American universities. It's a fair choice; after all, that slice of college athletics seems to attract the most attention: the most competition, the most fan interest, the most money, and the most criticism. Underlying much of that criticism--that it cheapens otherwise great educational institutions, that it is overly commercial, and that it attracts fanaticism, greed, and hypocrisy--is an unspoken assumption that things with college sports weren't always this bad. After all, why else would the criticism be so impassioned and moralizing unless some set of principles and tradition was being violated?
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