Read the following story by Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post both to comment below and for the test later this week.
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Assignments
Blogroll
Boosterism
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College athletics
- Athletics vs. Academics
- Chart: Analyzing the percentage of tuition that goes to athletics
- College athletics financial database
- College Sports 101
- College TV (PDF)
- Editorial on college basketball grad rates
- Frontline show on March Madness
- How student fees boost college sports amid rising budgets
- Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
- Money & March Madness (PBS)
- Shame of College Sports
- Should college athletes get paid? (USA Today)
Golden Age of Sports
- 1919 World Series footage
- Babe Ruth's 60th Home Run (video)
- Bobby Jones & Augusta (video)
- Bobby Jones at 1930 British Open (video)
- Dempsey vs. Willard (1919)
- Grantland Rice & His Heroes (PDF)
- Rice on Bill Tilden
- Rice on Bobby Jones
- Rice's The Four Horsemen
- Why Grantland Rice Sucked
- Women's Tennis 1929 (video)
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Race and Sports
- Interview with Unforgivable Blackness producer
- Jackie Robinson (video)
- Jim Crow Laws (PDF)
- Lin's impact on Asian-Americans
- Oates on Jack Johnson
- Red Barber on Jackie Robinson (video)
- Rhoden: Is race a factor for Lin's and Tebow's celebrity?
- Satchel Paige (video)
- The NFL's Jackie Robinson
- Unforgivable Blackness site
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- Big-time athletics
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- NCAA & sports marketing
- South Africa: A Big Bounce from the World Cup
- Sports Business Daily
- Sports Business Journal
- Sports Economics (PDF)
- The Man of the Hour – Story on NFL commish Roger Goodell
- The World Cup As Big Business
- World Cup 2010
- World Cup Soccer in Africa (documentary)
- Yes, Soccer Is America's Game
Sports Marketing
Today's media coverage
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Women and Sports
- Article on ESPN Body Images Issue
- Association for Women in Sports Media
- Colleges cut men's programs to satisfy Title IX
- Helen Moody at '35 Wimbledon (video)
- Lenglen vs. Wills 1926 (video)
- Sexism at Wimbledon
- Shrinking Women's Sports Coverage
- Video: Women's sports journalists still face obstacles
- Women athletes sometimes debased in media
- Women In Sports Journalism
- Women's Sports (PDF)
- Women's Sports Foundation