College Sports as Academic Prostitution

College sports are a business, a big business.  In a journal article entitled “Big-Time Sports as Academic Prostitution,” William Dowling addresses the issue of college sports impact on their famed universities as ‘academic institutions’.  Through the now accepted practices of corruption, deception, and exploitation within a college sports program the idea of a student-athlete is fading fast.  In this study, Dowling focuses on the discrepancies between student-athletes and non-athletes and the ever-popular notion to pay college athletes.  More…