• How do you think coverage such as that provided by ESPN around college athletes impacts the role and practice of intercollegiate sports?
• What is the impact on the athletes themselves?
• What, if anything, should be changed about such coverage?
• Weigh in, and then respond to another student's post.

References:

College Athletics: Education or Show Business a1954 Atlantic article by former university president Dr . Harold W. Stoke. The article offers some provocative ideas about how to address the difficult contradictions that occur when we combine sports as entertainment with the (nonprofit!) academic setting.

The issues in intercollegiate sportsarise at the intersection of political economy and amateurism, two issues we've already studied this semester. They also highlight the ways media coverage and involvement in sport can change its intended purpose.

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