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Title: ETHICS AND COLLEGE SPORTS
ETHICS, SPORTS, AND THE UNIVERSITY
By: Peter A. French
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 074251272X
ISBN 13: 9780742512726
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Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Pub. date: 1 September, 2004
Series: Issues in Academic Ethics
Pages: 208
Description: Ethics and College Sports is a careful analysis of the root problems in intercollegiate athletics in American universities. It examines the prevalent myths that are regularly used to justify the inclusion of intercollegiate athletics, and all of the abuses and scandals it has brought to university campuses, from a moral perspective.
Synopsis: Ethics and College Sports is a careful analysis of the root problems in intercollegiate athletics in American universities. It examines the prevalent myths that are regularly used to justify the inclusion of intercollegiate athletics, and all of the abuses and scandals it has brought to university campuses, from a moral perspective. In this book, the myths that amateurism is morally desirable, that sports brings good moral character, and that the elite sports programs raise significant sums of money to support university budgets are dissected. The actual impact of the movement to provide gender equity in athletics programs on campus is discussed and a defensible justification for intercollegiate athletics is offered.
Publication: US
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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