Archives for blog topic “college sports”

It’s a simple chicken-or-egg question: Is the bad behavior we see in sports leading to the winning-at-all-costs attitude of Wall Street and Washington, or is it the other way around? 

Filed in Blog Topics: sports and society, Craig Robinson, 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival, college sports, Jeremy Schaap, William Mayer

It is virtually impossible to have a discussion about college sports without considering the role that athletics plays in the university experience. There are various ways to approach such a question, but during the College Sports At A Crossroads: Education or Entertainment? panel, the focus was on whether college sports offered value to both students and student-athletes.

Filed in Blog Topics: Tom Farrey, Craig Robinson, AIFSports, Joe Nocera, Taylor Branch, Wallace Renfro, NCAA, Sports & Society, college sports