Combining social and institutional history and incorporating the recollections of the athletes and meet directors on the front lines, The End of Amateurism in T

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In this in-depth look at the heated debates over paying college athletes, Ronald A. Smith starts at the beginning: the first intercollegiate athletics competiti

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