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University of California, Berkeley.
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University of California, Berkeley.
He is currently a visiting professor at the Cultural Studies of Sport in Education program at University of California, Berkeley. At Indiana, he published seven books, most recently. His previous books on college sports include:.
And. Sperber is also a former chair of the Drake Group, a national faculty committee advocating reform of college sports. In conjunction with his work on college sports he has appeared on many national television and radio programs, including American Broadcasting Company-television"s Nightline and Good Morning America Columbia Broadcasting System-television"s 60 Minutes, National Public Radio"s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Talk of the Nation, and Public Broadcasting Service-television"s Lehrer Newshour. He also frequently contributes op-ed pieces to The Chronicle of Higher Education and other periodicals, including The New York Times.
Sperber was born in Montreal.
He received his Bachelor of Arts from Purdue University in 1961, and both his Master of Arts (1963), and Doctor of Philosophy (1974) from the University of California, Berkeley. Sperber currently lives in Concord, California.
He continues to write and lecture about college life and college sports. Since 2008, he has been a Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley.
(Henry Holt, 1990, Fine., Bright, clean, tight, in dust ja...)
( "Sperber...tackles the details, great and small, uneart...)