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Advancing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in the NFL by N. Jeremi Duru (review)

156 Volume 41, Number 1 This latest edition is not without its faults, however. At times it lacks for cohesion. There are struggles with repetition between chapters and an occasional disjointedness within units. Typographical and some factual errors—such as placing the 1964 Olympic games in Rome rather than Tokyo (p. 9), the NCAA’s “Sanity Code” in 1944 instead of 1948 (pp. 14 and 398), or implying that Georgia Tech and Pittsburgh did not ultimately face each other in the 1956 Sugar Bowl (p. 43)—detract from otherwise strong work. Other essays simply could have found more effective targets for their focus. In Chapter 10, for example, C. Keith Harrison and Bill Sutton might have spent time delineating more clearly the compelling work and overarching mission of Harrison’s “Scholar-Baller” initiative rather than somewhat haphazardly presenting the anecdotes they selected (pp. 262263). Focusing explicitly on the program’s systemic goals and results would have better highlighted the possible benefits of linking popular culture and student-athletes’ academic identity as well as the capacity of nonprofit organizations to effect change within college sports. As the athletic arms race intensifies in America’s universities and the literature on race in college sports enjoys a wave of innovative and important additions, Brooks and Althouse’s latest collaboration brings a much-needed lens to bear on the present-day realities of bigtime sports in higher education. The conversations they seek to promote and to complicate are more pertinent than ever. Ultimately, this latest edition offers a valuable starting point for understanding the ways that inequality and prejudice can shape the experiences and outcomes for the tens of thousands of non-white students taking the field every season at colleges across the country. —JEFFREY D. GONDA Syracuse University