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This work moves beyond the myths and media hype to take a look at America's love of sport and how it so often comes into conflict with their most basic values. With a sharp eye for the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political manoeuvring and media grandstanding, D. Stanley Eitzen portrays famous and lesser-known events from professional and college sports, including well-known coaches and players, to give a deeper understanding of what sport means to people and how it affects their daily lives.
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D. Stanley Eitzen continues to demystify the American sport system in this accessible book by combining a critical point of view with 'bottom-up' social activism...The structure of the book means that it can be read either in its entirety or in a more thematic way, and Eitzen skillfully deploys quotes from athletes, coaches, and reporters. The text should be useful for sensitizing students, coaches, athletes to the need for change, and will also appeal to people who are trying to resolve their love-hate relationship with sport.--Alexandre Dumas "International Review for the Sociology of Sport "
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D. Stanley Eitzen is professor emeritus of sociology, Colorado State University.
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- PublisherRowman & Littlefield
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0847691705
- ISBN 13 9780847691708
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages200
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