Twitter has become a popular topic in sport communication research. Little research to date,
however, has examined Twitter from the perspective of student-athletes. This research …

Academically engaged African American college athletes are most susceptible to stereotype
threat in the classroom when the context links their unique status as both scholar and …

Scholarship focused on Black female athletes has recently grown and has important
implications for all sport and education scholars. Said scholars have sought to wed critical …

The purpose of this pilot study was to assess the nature and status of four African American
male athletes' educational experiences as participants in a big-time college football program …

High-profile sport governance associations tend to remain intact despite numerous issues
that would predict their demise. As such, these types of associations offer valuable contexts …

This research examined how a dominant sport organization (the National Collegiate Athletic
Association) within an organizational field (US intercollegiate athletics) addressed legitimate …

The standard evaluations of NCAA student-athlete graduation rates involve comparisons
with rates for the general student body. The latter rates as actually calculated, however …

In January 2012, during his “State of the Association” address, National Collegiate Athletic
Association (NCAA) President Mark Emmert urged members to fix the “collegiate model.” …

Scholars have identified similarities between collegiate athletics and total institutions for
profit-athletes, but few examined the relationship for athletes participating in other sports …

In sport, talent development is a multidimensional, multiplicative, and dynamic interaction of
performance, psycho-social, and educational processes (Simonton, 2001; Burgess and …