How the Economy is Affecting Adults and Children in Champaign-Urbana
With Andre Arrington, BSW (Executive Director, Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club, Champaign)
Focus
The National Collegiate Athletic Association, Tax Exemption, and College Athletics
With John Colombo, J.D. (Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law, University of Illinois)
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Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage
With Paul Ekman (Manager, Paul Ekman Group, LLC; Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Francisco)
Until it Hurts: America’s Obsession with Youth Sports and How it Harms Our Kids
With Mark Hyman (Contributing Editor for sports business at BusinessWeek; Contributing Columnist for the Sports Business Journal)
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Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed The World
With David Maraniss (an Associate Editor at The Washington Post and 1993 Pulitzer Prize Winner for National Reporting)
The Olympics: Have They Ever Been Without Politics?
With John Hoberman, Ph.D. (Professor and Chair of Germanic Studies, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin)
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Playing With The Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal In Sports
With Eileen McDonagh, (Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University; and Laura Pappano, Award-Winning Journalist)
Categories:
Gender issues,
Sports
Head Injuries
With Stanley A. Herring, M.D. (Medical Director of the Spine Center at University of Washington Medicine; Clinical Professor in the Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine, Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine and Neurological Surgery; and a Team Physician for the Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Mariners)
Framing the Future: Reforming Intercollegiate Athletics
With Nathan Tublitz (Co-Chair of the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics and Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Oregon)
Not by a Long Shot: A Season at a Hard-Luck Horse Track
With T.D. Thorton (Journalist)
Categories:
Sports