When Winning Excuses Everything: Sports Culture and Its Reckoning
Investigative accounts and institutional analyses of how leadership and culture failures inside athletic departments breed scandal, and what real oversight and reform require.
Optimized for books about Understanding why college and pro sports programs produce scandals and what governance, accountability, and culture change can fix them..
Winning Fixes EverythingEvan DrellichInvestigative account of how dysfunctional management and winning-at-all-costs cultures enable widespread cheating and...Shelf signal: Baseball History
Court JusticeEd O'Bannon, Michael McCannChronicles legal and institutional fights to reform college sports and explains the structural incentives shaping...Shelf signal: Sports Lives
Resource Management for Colleges and UniversitiesWilliam F. MassyExplains how resource allocation and managerial choices in higher education shape institutional priorities and...Shelf signal: Higher Education Administration
Skating on Thin IceWalter DeKeseredy, Stu CowanAnalyzes toxic sport cultures and how sexual violence and misconduct persist within athletic organizations.Shelf signal: Sexual Abuse & Harassment
Sports, Media, and SocietyKevin HullSurveys how media, management, and public narratives shape responses to scandals and the governance of sports...Shelf signal: How Media Works
DisneywarPatrick Lawlor, James B. StewartCorporate history that illuminates how leadership failures and internal politics produce scandals and the challenges of...Shelf signal: Entertainment Industry