Backboards and Blackboards: College Athletes and Role Engulfment

by Patricia A. Adler

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Describes and analyses the relationships of the players, coaches, supporters, news media, and other key personnel and depicts the problems, pressures and rewards of being a student athlete. Based on ten years of observations and interviews of teams from five universities in three different cities.

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Backboards and Blackboards: College Athletes and Role Engulfment

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Sports and Leisure, Nonfiction, Sociology
DDC/MDS
796.071Arts & recreationRecreation, sports, and performing artsAthletic and outdoor sports and gamesEducation And Research
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GV889.26 .A33Geography, Anthropology and RecreationRecreation. LeisureRecreation. LeisureSportsBall games: Baseball, football, golf, etc.
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