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Fractured focus : sport as a reflection of society / edited by Richard E. Lapchick.

Contributor Lapchick, Richard Edward.

Imprint:Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, c1986.

Descriptionxix, 388 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Ch. 1. INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ABUSES: Abuses in college athletics / Mark Asher -- The collegiate athletic arms race: origins and implications of the "Rule 48" controversy / Harry Edwards -- The intercollegiate sport cartel and its consequences for athletes / George H. Sage -- Pass one for the Gipper: student-athletes and university coursework / Joseph Raney, Terry Knapp, Mark Small -- The coming demise of intercollegiate athletics / James H. Frey -- Ch. 2. RACISM IN SPORTS: The image of intercollegiate sports and the civil rights movement: a historian's view / Adolph H. Grundman -- An environmental explanation for race differences in basketball performance / Donal E. Carlston -- The promised land / Richard E. Lapchick -- Ch. 3. WOMEN IN SPORT: Role conflict of women as athletes in the United States / Mary M. Bell -- Women's collegiate athletics: incidents in the struggle for influence and control / Judy Jensen -- A political analysis of the possibility of impact alternatives for the accomplishment of feminist objectives within American intercollegiate sport / Donna A. Lopiano -- Ch. 4. YOUTH SPORTS: excerpt from Giant steps / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Peter Knobler -- Are children's coompetitive team sports teaching corporate values? / Gai Ingham Berlage -- The behavior of youth sport coaches: crisis on the bench / Bennett J. Lombardo -- Dealing with the emotions of childhood sports / Bill Bruns, Tom Tutko -- Ch. 5. VIOLENCE: Sports violence: a definition / Michael D. Smith -- The structure of sport and participant violence / John Schneider, D. Stanley Eitzen -- Ch. 6. GAMBLING: Sports, gambling and television: the emerging alliance / H. Roy Kaplan -- Point spreads and journalistic ethics / Philip Straw -- Ch. 7. DRUGS: Drug abuse in baseball / Murray Chass, Michael Goodwin -- Ch. 8. THE MEDIA: Sportsworld revisited / Robert Lipsyte -- Ethics in sports journalism / Garry J. Smith, Terry A. Valeriote -- Ch. 9. SPORTS IN THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA: A political history of the modern Olympic games / Richard E. Lapchick -- The free enterprise Olympics / Harry Edwards -- 1976 and 1980 Olympic boycott media coverage: all the news that fits / Vincent Mosco, Levon Chorbajian -- Sports and apartheid: the world closes in / Richard E. Lapchick.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. [383]-388.

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