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"Most people agree that student-athletes work hard at both their sport and their studies, but opinions differ about whether they should be paid. Is playing a sport just like any other job, or is it an extracurricular activity? Do athletes deserve monetary compensation for putting their bodies on the line, or is a scholarship reward enough? These and other issues are explored through alternating viewpoints and fact boxes, and a list of resources gives...
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2016.
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Traces the single-generation transformation of sports from a cottage industry to a global business, reflecting on how elite athletes, agents, TV executives, coaches, owners, and athletes who once had to take second jobs worked together to create the dominating, big-ticket industry of today.
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"The inside story of the rise, fall, and rise of FanDuel and DraftKings--two companies that began as obscure start-ups and, seemingly overnight, became billion dollar companies, and just as quickly found themselves the target of the FBI and Department of Justice and the center of a national scandal. Veteran sportswriter Albert Chen draws on candid, unprecedented interviews with every key player in tech, sports, gambling, and the fantasy leagues to...
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2022.
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A former college basketball player and shoe rep for Nike details his experience of the dark underworld of college basketball, revealing how profit-driven sports programs exploit athletes and circumvent the NCAA's amateurism rules through the use of corporate sponsorships.
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[2013]
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Examines the business of college football and basketball and the NCAA's treatment of its athletes. Based on the controversial article 'The Shame of College Sports' by historian and former football player Taylor Branch, it tells a story of how college sports became a billion dollar industry built on dedicated young athletes who are deprived of numerous rights. Weaving interviews, archival and behind-the-scenes footage, the documentary sheds a new...
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