Billion-dollar ball: a journey through the big-money culture of college football

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Over the past decade college football has not only doubled in size, but its elite programs have become a $2.5-billion-a-year entertainment business, with lavishly paid coaches, lucrative television deals, and corporate sponsors eager to slap their logos on everything from scoreboards to footballs and uniforms.

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• The Geography of Risk Epic Storms, Rising Seas, and the Cost of America's Coasts di Gilbert M. Gaul (2020)
• The geography of risk: epic storms, rising seas, and the costs of America's coasts di Gilbert M. Gaul (2019)