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American sports sports history sports scandals organized crime sports Olympics exploitation sports business sports media television sports instant replay Roone Arledge fitness craze athlete wealth sports corruption postwar sports sports and politics
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Product details
- ISBN 9780801842405
- Weight: 386g
- Dimensions: 146 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 May 1991
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Winning Is the Only Thing, Randy Roberts and James Olson take a hard look at the dark side of American sports. The scandals. The role of organized crime. How politicians and businessmen exploit the Olympics. Who gets rich and who goes broke. Why the fitness craze has nothing to do with fitness. And how TV sports czars like Roone Arledge-inventor of the "instant replay"-actually dictate how games are played.
James S. Olson is the Texas State University System Regents Professor of History at Sam Houston State University. He has written and edited dozens of books, including Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History, also published by Johns Hopkins.
