Frank Splitt agrees with claims that America’s obsession with modern sports is eroding American life and undermining traditional American values essential to the well-being of the nation. Splitt addresses questions such as, “Have sports lost their relevance?”, ” Is sport just mindless entertainment?”, “Is our enormous investment in sports as educational tools appropriate for a … Read more
Frank Splitt presents a first person commentary on how he was retaliated against after writing an article critical of intercollegiate athletics. »Read the full article
A collection of 14 essays on the need for NCAA reform, all published in the national media during the 2004-05 academic year, all as relevant today as they were then,. Author Frank Splitt discusses the following topics: (1) The Economics of College Sports, (2) The Blatant Hypocrisy in Big-time College Sports, (3) Why the … Read more
This 2004 commentary by Frank Splitt is a sequel to his 2003 paper on Reclaiming Academic Primacy in Higher Education »Read the full paper
In this 2004 Daily Herald commentary Frank Splitt discusses athlete behavior, academic fraud and NCAA efforts to control media coverage of the mess in intercollegiate athletics – a reminder that little has changed in the last decade. »Read the full paper