Reforming Sports Before the Clock Runs Out: One Man’s Journey Through Our Runaway Sports Culture

ISBN 0 - 9666323 - 6 - 2
Author: Bruce B. Svare
Paperback: 300 pages, 6 X 9
Illustrated: 16 original cartoons by Mark Parisi
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Are you troubled by the sad state of youth, amateur, high school, and collegiate sports in our country? Are you disturbed that our sports culture may be failing our young people at every step of their development? Have you come to the point where you think something needs to be done in order to bring sports back to their original purpose?

Dr. Bruce Svare, Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Albany and founder and Director of the National Institute for Sports Reform, believes that the time has come for a serious examination of our present out-of-control sports culture. Based upon his experiences in Upstate New York as a father of two athletes, a college professor, a coach, and a sports administrator, Dr. Svare assesses the many failings of our present sports culture. Part memoir and part investigative journalism, he specifically explores:

• the steadily increasing emphasis on early specialization and professionalization of young athletes
• the intense promotion of winning at all costs at every level of sports
• the obsessive pursuit of athletic achievement for the reward of an athletic scholarship or professional contract
• the increasing reports of academic corruption in our public schools and institutions of higher learning
• the rampant commercialism of sports at all levels and the threat it poses to the integrity of our academic institutions
• the increasing use of performance-enhancing drugs and supplements and their effects on athletes and the integrity of sports
• the declining sportsmanship, elevated violence and the general misbehavior of athletes, coaches, parents, and fans
• the unbalanced and overhyped media coverage of young athletes
• the pervasiveness of sports gambling and the publication of point spread information
• the impact of Title IX decisions on both male and female athletes
• the overemphasis on costly competitive sports that only serve a small number of young people in our educational system
• the increasing abandonment of intramural, recreational and fitness-based needs of the vast majority of our youths
• and the benign neglect of our athletes as incidents of sports injury, burnout and overtaining escalate

Reforming Sports Before the Clock Runs Out is both an expose on what ails our sports culture as well as a call for corrective action by all segments of our society. Focusing on an action plan, Dr. Svare boldly advances proposals that will counteract the dark side of sports, restore them to some level of balance in our culture, and return our sports landscape to its proper place in our lives. This book is must reading for every parent, educator, coach, and sports administrator who cares about our young people and the direction of sports in America.