Buying In

Aaron L. Miller, PhD is a lecturer in the Departments of Kinesiology at California State University, East Bay and at St. Mary’s College of California, the author of Discourses of Discipline, and a business culture consultant who has worked for several professional and national sports organizations, as well as Tesla Motors, Inc. He is also the host of “The Power of Sports” Podcast, which is available on Apple Podcasts or via his website: www.aaronlmiller.com.

• AcknowledgmentsPrologue: The Stories We TellIntroduction: Big TimeChapter 1: We’re Still Trying to Find Our IdentityChapter 2: The Engine of the TrainChapter 3: Unselfish PlayChapter 4: Enlightened LeadershipChapter 5: A Coach of CoachesChapter 6: Everybody Is Capable, Everybody Is FearlessChapter 7: Deep in the WoodsChapter 8: I Am StanfordChapter 9: I Am Not a Celebrity at StanfordChapter 10: We Need People to Take OwnershipConclusion: Give Women’s Sports a ChanceEpilogue: Big-Time College Sports amid Two PandemicsBibliographyAbout the Author

“Buying In: Big-Time Women's College Basketball and the Future of College Sports by Aaron L. Miller is the stellar work of a meticulous scholar/researcher and compelling story teller. Miller traces the separate and diametrically opposed histories of men’s and women’s intercollegiate sport through their intersectional clash in 1975 when Congress adopted Title IX’s athletics regulations mandating a future reflecting gender equality in educational sport. Miller chronicles the next 46 years of painstaking progress through up close and personal vignettes told through the voices and team experiences of an iconic Stanford University women’s basketball coach and her athletes. These women confront discrimination and explode myths about the skill, toughness and tenacity of female athletes and the economic viability of women’s sports. While gender equality has still not been realized and academic integrity seriously damaged by the corrosive aspects of commercialized sport programs, Miller closes with an insightful analysis of what must be fixed, what Stanford has done right, and why the future should be hopeful.”