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How The University Of Arkansas’ Change In Conference Affiliation Set Off Realignment In Intercollegiate Athletics, Matthew Jones
How The University Of Arkansas’ Change In Conference Affiliation Set Off Realignment In Intercollegiate Athletics, Matthew Jones
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The era of realignment within the conferences that make up the largest football-playing division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association can be traced to one event.
In the 1984 Supreme Court case NCAA v. Board of Regents, the court ruled the NCAA had violated antitrust laws by not allowing individual colleges to negotiate their own TV contracts for football games. The decision nulled and voided existing TV contracts with the NCAA, allowing a free market for colleges. Many programs partnered with the College Football Association to negotiate TV contracts in the 1980s and early ‘90s.
Five years after the Supreme …
America's War In Angola, 1961-1976, Alexander Joseph Marino
America's War In Angola, 1961-1976, Alexander Joseph Marino
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A study of the role played by the United States in Angola's War of Independence and the Angolan Civil War up to 1976.
With Our Backs To The Wall' : Entente Grand Strategy In 1918, Saxton Sain Wyeth
With Our Backs To The Wall' : Entente Grand Strategy In 1918, Saxton Sain Wyeth
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Facing a military defeat in the face of the 1918 German offensive on the Western Front, the armies of the Entente reorganized under a Supreme Commander. This shift to coordinated grand strategy in conjunction with Allied strategic disunity enabled the Entente to destroy the armies of the Quadruple Alliance on the battlefield and bring the Great War to a conclusion on November 11th, 1918.