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by Brianne Johnson November 15, 2012

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Frank Deford quotes James Duderstadt on the culture of college sports

by Shaun Manning July 26, 2012

Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic, hosts of ESPN Radio’s “Mike and Mike” show, spoke with acclaimed sports writer and Sports Illustrated columnist Frank Deford about the culture of college athletics in the wake of the Penn State scandal. Deford said that the byword for college football and basketball is “More,” with athletic programs becoming “bigger, huger, and of course wealthier, richer. And all of that has led to more temptation.” To Deford’s mind, there is no way to “reel it back in.” “It’s just going to get bigger and bigger. We’ve seen that with the new contract for the football [...]

NPR’s Only a Game chats with Brian Porto about “The Supreme Court and the NCAA”

by Shaun Manning February 22, 2012

Brian L. Porto, author of the recently-released The Supreme Court and the NCAA: The Case for Less Commercialism and More Due Process in College Sports, took to the radio this past weekend to discuss his new book with Only a Game, produced by Boston NPR affiliate 90.9 WBUR. Porto’s book, which addresses long-simmering concerns about the commercialization of college sports, became especially timely thanks to a series of articles by New York Times columnist Joe Nocera; University of Michigan President Emeritus James Duderstadt has also weighed in on the controversy. The Supreme Court and the NCAA examines two court cases [...]

Duderstadt Weighs In as New York Times Debate Over College Sports Continues

by Shaun Manning January 23, 2012

Sunday's New York Times featured an article titled "How Big-Time Sports Ate College Life," which examines long-simmering issues of commercialization in college sports–a topic the paper recently reignited with two controversial opinion pieces by columnist Joe Nocera. This time, education writer Laura Pappano compared prestigious universities' academic renown with those same universities' famous football and basketball teams. "Ohio State boasts 17 members of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, three Nobel laureates, eight Pulitzer Prize winners, 35 Guggenheim Fellows and a MacArthur winner," Pappano writes. "But sports rule." She also discusses how the extraordinary popularity of sports leads to [...]

Poker as Poetry of Money

by Shaun Manning November 28, 2011

Guest blogger Ole Bjerg is the author of Poker: The Parody of Capitalism, available now from the University of Michigan Press. His book argues, among other things, that the poker is a form of cultural expression not unlike fine arts and literature, and here he discusses briefly how to consider the game in similar terms. The relationship between money, economy, and gambling is comparable to the relationship between language, prose, and poetry. In prose, the functioning of language is more or less taken for granted, and language is used as a medium for conveying meaning, for instance, stating a fact [...]

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