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Title

Reversing field : examining commercialization, labor, gender, and race in 21st-century sports law / edited by andré douglas pond cummings & Anne Marie Lofaso.

Publication

Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Cummings, Andre Douglas Pond.
• Lofaso, Anne Marie

Description

xix, 419 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• Reversing Field invites students, professionals, and enthusiasts of sport - whether law, management and marketing or the game itsf -to explore the legal issues and regulations surounding collegiate and professional athletics in the United States.
• This theoretical and methodological interrogation of sports law openly addresses race, labor, gender, and the commercialization of sports, while offering solutions to the disruptions that threaten its very foundation during an era of increased media serutiny and consumerism.
• In over thirty chapters, academics, practitioners, and critics vigorously confront and debate matters such as the Arms Race, gender bias, racism, the Rooney Rule, and steroid use, offering new thought and resolution to the vexing legal issues that confront sports in the 21st century. --Book Jacket.

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Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

Sports > Law and legislation > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• More lightning and less thunder: the challenge for NCAA athletics / Bernard Franklin -- The value and perils of intercollegiate athletics : a presidential perspective / David C. Hardesty, Jr. -- Exploring the commercialized arms race metaphor / Alfred Mathewson -- Describing racism as asymmetrical market imperfections, or how to determine whether the NBA dress code is racist / Andre L. Smith -- Athletes as television celebrities : why we watch; how they benefit; must they be responsible? / Sherri Burr -- Balls or strikes : are economic weapons finding the zone? Introduction / Jeffrey Hirsch -- The 1994-'95 baseball strike and National Labor Relations Board : to the precipice and back again / William B. Gould, IV -- 1994 baseball players' strike : a case study in labor's use of its most effective economic weapon / Dennis P. Walsh -- The state of sports law and policy : views from a labor law professor / William B. Gould, IV.
• False/positives : debating the merits of drug testing. Introduction / Anne Marie Lofaso -- The temptation of performance-enhancing drugs / andré douglas pond cummings -- Performance-enhancing drugs and how they affect today's athlete : views from a medical doctor / Dr. Julian Bailes -- From Barry Bonds to USADA : protecting the interests of 'drug-free' athletes / Timothy Davis -- Challenging the premise of steroid testing in sports / David Cornwell, Sr. -- The invisible pregnant athlete & the promise of Title IX / Deborah Brake -- Title IX backlash and intercollegiate athletics / Barbara Osborne -- Reflections of a former athlete as a young woman : growing up under Title IX / Anne Marie Lofaso -- Girls can play, too : has the lack of female leadership in NCAA athletics become an afterthought? / Bethany Swaton -- Race in sports : the continuing dilemma / Leonard J. Elmore -- Racing from the past : exposing racism in today's collegiate athletics. Introduction / andré douglas pond cummings.
• The legacy of Brown : commodification of the African American student-athlete? / Dana D. Brooks and Ronald Althouse -- Using social psychology to evaluate race and law in sports / Michael McCann -- From the inside looking out : racism in men's collegiate coaching / Marlon LeBlanc -- Progress realized? : the continuing American Indian mascot quandary / andré douglas pond cummings -- Professional equality : the Rooney Rule. Introduction / Todd J. Clark -- Minorities are separate and unequal : a look at the minority hiring practices in collegiate and professional athletics / Floyd Keith -- The changing landscape of African Americans in sports / Kenneth Shropshire -- The critical role of the Fritz Pollard Alliance / Cyrus Mehri -- The Fritz Pollard Alliance, the Rooney Rule, and the quest to "level the playing field" in the National Football League / N. Jeremi Duru -- Pushing weight / andré douglas pond cummings.

ISBN

• 9781933202549 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1933202548 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781933202556 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1933202556 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009043724

OCLC

• 458891747
• SCSB-10447613

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library