"The Centerpiece of College Athletics": Prioritizing Education in the College Sports Reform Movement

This article, which is based upon long-term fieldwork observations of a big-time women's college basketball team, proposes reforms that would more sufficiently compensate the professional role big-time college athletes perform, all without sacrificing the educational connection that is vital to...

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Main Author: Aaron Miller (Author)
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Published: University of Kansas Libraries, 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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