Betrayed by the Game. Darcy Frey.
by Frey, Darcy; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 36Human Relations. Publisher: New York Times Magazine, 2004ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): African American basketball players | African Americans -- Social conditions | High school athletes | Sports -- Sociological aspectsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Each year, 500,000 or so young men play high-school basketball in this country. Each year, less than 1 percent of them get a Division I scholarship. The bitter disappointments of players like Shipp, Johnson and Flicking are the norm, but you wouldn't know it from reading the sports pages or from tuning in to ESPN. There, the myth of basketball as the Great Way Out continues to thrive, uncomplicated by the stories of the young men who never made it." (NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE) The author reveals how "the narrative of basketball as the Great Way Out for young impoverished men continues to flourish, but for most of them, the sport is little more than a trap."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Betrayed by the Game, Feb. 15, 2004; pp. 14+.
"Each year, 500,000 or so young men play high-school basketball in this country. Each year, less than 1 percent of them get a Division I scholarship. The bitter disappointments of players like Shipp, Johnson and Flicking are the norm, but you wouldn't know it from reading the sports pages or from tuning in to ESPN. There, the myth of basketball as the Great Way Out continues to thrive, uncomplicated by the stories of the young men who never made it." (NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE) The author reveals how "the narrative of basketball as the Great Way Out for young impoverished men continues to flourish, but for most of them, the sport is little more than a trap."
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