Athletes' Hours Renew Debate over College Sports

Autor/in	Wolverton, Brad
Titel	Athletes' Hours Renew Debate over College Sports
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2008) 20, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	College Athletics; Athletes; College Students; Student Attitudes; Taxes; Government School Relationship; Educational Finance + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College athletes; Collegesport; Hochschulsport; Athlet; Collegestudent; Schülerverhalten; Abgabe; Bildungsfonds
Abstract	Over the past year, members of Congress have poked around the well-fed belly of intercollegiate athletics, questioning whether college sports deserves its tax-exempt status. Myles Brand, the president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), has led the countercharge against the government, repeatedly defending the educational value of the games. The NCAA started a Web site last year, NCAAStudent.org, to illustrate how its athletes balance sports with their academic responsibilities. And in Mr. Brand's state-of-the-association speech this year, he said the main difference between college and professional sports was that "those who participate in our athletics events are students, and students first." But even the NCAA's athletes don't believe that's true. According to an NCAA survey of 21,000 players, the majority view themselves more as athletes than students. Major-college football players reported spending an average of 44.8 hours a week practicing, playing, or training for their sport, the survey found, with golfers, baseball players, and softball players not far behind. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10