College basketball experienced its greatest rise in popularity during the eighties, becoming one of the most commercially successful spectator sports in America. With this rise came an era of scandal: recruiting violations, spurious admittance practices, and controversial treatment of student athletes. Within this guarded context of scrutiny, allegations of improprieties, and media celebrity, Patricia and Peter Adler penetrated the public front of a top twenty basketball team. The result of their efforts, Backboards and Blackboards: College Athletes and Role Engulfment, is a compelling inside account of an exciting, intimidating, and glamorous hidden arena.
- ISBN10 0231073062
- ISBN13 9780231073066
- Publish Date 1 November 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 November 2006
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Columbia University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 262
- Language English