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article illustration FLEXING FUND-RAISING MUSCLE

Gifts to sports programs now account for more than one-quarter of all contributions to some colleges, cutting into the proportion given for academic purposes.
Jeffrey L. Stinson, a marketing professor at North Dakota State U.: As athletics donations grow, "you do see donors cut back a little on that academic gift because they just don't have the capacity." (Photograph by Mark Anthony)

FACE MONEY

In a potential windfall for sports programs, a proposal before the NCAA would broaden the use of athletes' likenesses in commercial ad campaigns.

MIND GAMES

How can a critic of big-time college sports get so excited come game day? asks Murray Sperber, a professor emeritus of English and American studies at Indiana University at Bloomington.

BAD CALLS

For all their differences, Jim Thorpe and the Duke lacrosse team have something in common. Both are victims of stereotyping, writes Michael Nelson, a professor of political science at Rhodes College.

Sidelines

WHEY COOL: Researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison use a byproduct of cheese production to produce a new sports drink for Badger athletes.

Facts & Figures

The Chronicle's annual report on gender equity in college athletics, including a searchable database

Graduation rates for athletes and other students who entered college in 1988-97

Average salaries of male and female coaches

Issues in Depth

Affirmative Action

Title IX and Intercollegiate Athletics

The Chronicle's 2007-8 Almanac of Higher Education