books by Allen L. Sack (athletes academic amateurs)

books by Allen L. Sack

books:

College Athletes for Hire: The Evolution and Legacy of the NCAA's Amateur Myth

9 reviews

Praeger Publishers, 1998

College Athletes: Amateurs or Professionals
The purpose of this book is to show how college athletes started playing sports as amateurs, but quickly through athletic scholorships have turned towards professionalism. An amateur is one who engages in sports in their free time. This is leisure time, and athletes joining in this time will compete solely on thier will to play and not participate in return for room. board, tuition and fees. ...

Counterfeit Amateurs: An Athlete's Journey Through the Sixties to the Age of Academic Capitalism

12 reviews
Allen L. Sack

Modern Humanities Research, 2008

Amazing and insightful book
Allen Sack's book, Counterfeit Amateurs, is an insightful, first-hand account of the problems in intercollegiate sport. Sack masterfully intertwines his experiences as an athlete at Notre Dame with the problems facing collegiate sport today. He is able to go from the past to the present seemlessly and presents evidence that the the world of intercollegiate sport has become big business with a ...