much to create and sustain controversies: parents, coaches, agents, team
owners, fans, gamblers, doctors, public officials, and corporate sponsors.

Each chapter discusses how a specific controversy has developed in
the sports world, with a focus on how it has affected individuals and
institutions in one of the major spectator sports. The chapter presents
the background of the controversy and traces its evolution over time to
the present. In addition to linking past and present, each chapter ex-
plores the reasons that the controversy endures, presents opposing view-
points on its nature and effects, and offers an outlook on the course it
may take in the future. The chapter is followed by a list of topics for
discussion which teachers can use to initiate dialogue and encourage
students to more fully examine the materials. The reader will also find
lists of books, magazines, newspapers, and organizations for more de-
tailed information.

America's love affair with sports shows no sign of abating. All of the
controversies discussed here have existed for decades, and there is vir-
tually no chance that any of them will be resolved soon. This book is not
an attempt to resolve the controversies but to assess the effects of their
ongoing presence. To students, teachers, parents, and other interested
readers, Controversies of the Sports World is presented as a tool with which
to learn more about the great influence that the sports world has had,
and will continue to have, on our lives and our society.

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