Indentured the inside story of the rebellion against the NCAA
"In the four years since Joe Nocera asked those questions in a controversial New York Times column, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has come under fire. Fans have begun to realize that the athletes involved in the two biggest college sports, mens basketball and football, are little...
| Main Authors: | Nocera, Joseph (Author), Strauss, Ben (Journalist) (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Portfolio/Penguin,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- "Why do they hate me so much?"
- The turncoat
- The first activist
- "How do I get one of those deals?"
- The $12 suspension
- "Somebody ought to file a lawsuit"
- The confessions of Dale Brown
- "Volandatory" practice
- Rulespalooza
- The cash king of college sports
- Ahab and the booster
- The branding of Myles Brand
- "The whole thing is ridiculous"
- The collegiate model
- A mind is a terrible thing to waste
- The deposition
- "Intent to professionalize"
- "Dude, you're on a video game!"
- The "Our way or the highway" bylaw
- "Magnifico excelentisimo"
- An excess of tutoring
- "The way you were taught to play"
- Scholarship blues
- "The whiff of the plantation"
- Actual malice
- Class is in
- Block that transfer!
- All players united
- Turning the tables on the NCAA
- Amateur hour
- The sky didn't fall
- Appendix 1. Excuses, not reasons : 13 myths about (not) paying college athletes
- Appendix 2. National Letter of Indenture : how college athletes are similar to, and in many ways worse off than, the indentured servants of colonial times.