Changing the Playbook by Howard P Chudacoff - 9780252081323

Changing the PlaybookHow Power, Profit, and Politics Transformed College Sports\nAuthor(s): Howard P Chudacoff\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252081323, 978-0252081323\nSynopsis\n\""In Changing the Playbook, Howard P. Chudacoff delves into the background and what-ifs surrounding seven defining moments that redefined college sports. These changes involved fundamental issues--race and gender, profit and power--that reflected societal tensions and, in many cases, remain pertinent today: \n\nthe failed 1950 effort to pass a Sanity Code regulating payments to football players;\nthe thorny racial integration of university sports programs;\nthe boom in television money;\nthe 1984 Supreme Court decision that settled who could control skyrocketing media revenues;\nTitle IX's transformation of women's athletics;\nthe cheating, eligibility, and recruitment scandals that tarnished college sports in th""