College athletes for hire : the evolution and legacy of the NCAA's amateur myth
Allen L. Sack, Ellen J. Staurowsky (Author), Kent Waldrep
Sack and Staurowsky show that the NCAA formally abandoned amateurism in the 1950s and passed rules in subsequent years that literally transformed scholarship athletes into university employees. In addition, by purposefully fashioning an amateur mythology to mask the reality of this employer-employee relationship, the NCAA has done a disservice to student-athletes and to higher education. A major subtheme is that women, such as those who created the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), opposed this hypocrisy, but lacked the power to sustain an alternative model
Print Book, English, 1998
Praeger, Westport, Conn., 1998