Sports The All-American Addiction

Name: Sports The All-American Addiction
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ISBN: 9781578064526

ISBN-10: 157806452X

ISBN-13: 9781578064526

Edition: 2002

Authors: John R. Gerdy

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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Publication date: 3/30/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 277
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

John R. Gerdy is founder and executive director of Music for Everyone. a former all-American and professional basketball player, he served at the NCAA and as associate commissioner of the Southeastern Conference. He is author of Sports: the All-American Addiction and Air Ball: American Education's Failed Experiment with Elite Athletics.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Essence of the Game



Buying In



The All-American Addiction



Sport and a Civil Society



Dumb Jocks in the Global Economy



The Athlete as Couch Potato



Give Me Your Money!



Sport and Upward Mobility



"Get over It!"



Mind over Body in the Information Age



What If?


References


Index