Sports Management News & Resources

In Standing Tall, 796.3230 S918s 2008, C. Vivian Stringer tells the tale of her amazing, and very often, difficult life.Nothing can get her down, not even Don Imus.

Equal Play, Title IX and Social Change, 796.082 E64 2007, “is a comprehensive and authoritative summary in support of young women’s athletic rights.”

In Across the Line, 796.323 J17a 2008, Barry Jacobs tells the tales of some of the first Black college basketball players in the 1960s & 1970s and the battles they faced on the off the court.

In Cinderalla, 796.32 L776c 2007, author Michael Litos, discusses the potential of mid-major college basketball teams to upset the status quo and break into the elite national championships.

The Sports Industsry’s War on Athletes by Finley & Finley tackles a big issue: How far will athletes and the industry go to make it to the big time?

When the Girls Came Out to Play, 391 W283w 2006, by Patricia Campbell Warner, takes a look at the history of women’s sportswear. Women’s clothes took a new turn with the founding of women’s colleges that offered “unladylike” activities such as basketball.

Fred Hobson’s Off the Rim, 796.323 H684o 2006, tells the tales of his love of basketball. “This is a story of boyhood that never ends, relived each year during basketball season in the frantic, tortured life of a fan.”

In To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever, 796.323 B661h 2006, by life long Tar Heels fan Will Blythe, examines the fiercest rivalry in college sports. The author takes an in depth look at this epic grudge and turns it into a record of social history.

Airball author John R. Gerdy has lived in the world of sports from high school football to pro-basketball. He argues that school athletics need some serious reform. He calls for a better balance between college athletics and education.

In How March Became Madness,796.323 E35h 2005, Eddie Einhorn tells the tale of how he turned college basketball into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. In 1968 when college basketball was just basketball he had an idea to broadcast these games and the rest is history.