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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1591846323
ISBN-13
9781591846321
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202757795
Product Key Features
Book Title
Indentured : the inside Story of the Rebellion Against the Ncaa
Number of Pages
374 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Business Aspects, Sociology of Sports, Higher, History
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Education
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
22.3 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-050168
Reviews
"Impeccably reported and written, this book puts a bullet in the heart of the country's most morally corrupt institution and will help liberate the thousands who are truly indentured." --Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights "This relentlessly researched, one-stop-shop exposé proves that the NCAA is a hopeless failure posing as the steward of American college athletics." --Frank Deford, Sports Illustrated "A searing indictment of the power and exploitation at the heart of big-money college athletics.... A clarion call for anyone who believes that hard-working people deserve fairness, respect, and a level playing field." --Senator Cory Booker "This book pulls back the covers on the lives that get chewed up by college sports. It's beautifully written and compelling." --Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit "Shocking and stunning. Two of the nation's finest newspaper writers have delivered an absolute masterpiece." --Paul Finebaum, ESPN "Painstakingly reported and deftly written, Indentured shines the brightest light yet on the hypocrisy and injustice perpetrated by the NCAA." --George Dohrmann, author of Play Their Hearts Out "I think it should be required reading for all sports fans." --Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "When I was in college, I felt like an indentured servant, exploited and controlled by all the people who were getting rich off my labors and my talent. This book is not only a must-read for college athletes and fans, but a call to action." --Arian Foster, Houston Texans running back "Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss have long recognized the widespread corruption that plagues big time college sports. These are issues that go beyond the sports pages." --Bob Costas, "Impeccably reported and written, this book puts a bullet in the heart of the country's most morally corrupt institution and will help liberate the thousands who are truly indentured." --Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights "This relentlessly researched, one-stop-shop expos proves that the NCAA is a hopeless failure posing as the steward of American college athletics." --Frank Deford, Sports Illustrated "A searing indictment of the power and exploitation at the heart of big-money college athletics.... A clarion call for anyone who believes that hard-working people deserve fairness, respect, and a level playing field." --Senator Cory Booker "This book pulls back the covers on the lives that get chewed up by college sports. It's beautifully written and compelling." --Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit "Shocking and stunning. Two of the nation's finest newspaper writers have delivered an absolute masterpiece." --Paul Finebaum, ESPN "Painstakingly reported and deftly written, Indentured shines the brightest light yet on the hypocrisy and injustice perpetrated by the NCAA." --George Dohrmann, author of Play Their Hearts Out "I think it should be required reading for all sports fans." --Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "When I was in college, I felt like an indentured servant, exploited and controlled by all the people who were getting rich off my labors and my talent. This book is not only a must-read for college athletes and fans, but a call to action." --Arian Foster, Houston Texans running back "Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss have long recognized the widespread corruption that plagues big time college sports. These are issues that go beyond the sports pages." --Bob Costas, "Impeccably reported and written, this book puts a bullet in the heart of the country's most morally corrupt institution and will help liberate the thousands who are truly indentured." --Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights "This relentlessly researched, one-stop-shop exposé proves that the NCAA is a hopeless failure posing as the steward of American college athletics." --Frank Deford, Sports Illustrated "A searing indictment of the power and exploitation at the heart of big-money college athletics.... A clarion call for anyone who believes that hard-working people deserve fairness, respect, and a level playing field." --Senator Cory Booker "This book pulls back the covers on the lives that get chewed up by college sports. It's beautifully written and compelling." --Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit "Shocking and stunning. Two of the nation's finest newspaper writers have delivered an absolute masterpiece." --Paul Finebaum, ESPN "Painstakingly reported and deftly written, Indentured shines the brightest light yet on the hypocrisy and injustice perpetrated by the NCAA." --George Dohrmann, author of Play Their Hearts Out "I think it should be required reading for all sports fans." --Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "When I was in college, I felt like an indentured servant, exploited and controlled by all the people who were getting rich off my labors and my talent. This book is not only a must-read for college athletes and fans, but a call to action." --Arian Foster, Houston Texans running back "Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss have long recognized the widespread corruption that plagues big time college sports. These are issues that go beyond the sports pages." --Bob Costas, "Impeccably reported and written, this book puts a bullet in the heart of the country's most morally corrupt institution and will help liberate the thousands who are truly indentured." --Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights "This relentlessly researched, one-stop-shop expos proves that the NCAA is a hopeless failure posing as the steward of American college athletics." --Frank Deford, Sports Illustrated "A searing indictment of the power and exploitation at the heart of big-money college athletics.... A clarion call for anyone who believes that hard-working people deserve fairness, respect, and a level playing field." --Senator Cory Booker "This book pulls back the covers on the lives that get chewed up by college sports. It's beautifully written and compelling." --Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit "Shocking and stunning. Two of the nation's finest newspaper writers have delivered an absolute masterpiece." --Paul Finebaum, ESPN "Painstakingly reported and deftly written, Indentured shines the brightest light yet on the hypocrisy and injustice perpetrated by the NCAA." --George Dohrmann, author of Play Their Hearts Out "I think it should be required reading for all sports fans." --Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "When I was in college, I felt like an indentured servant, exploited and controlled by all the people who were getting rich off my labors and my talent. This book is not only a must-read for college athletes and fans, but a call to action." --Arian Foster, Houston Texans running back "Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss have long recognized the widespread corruption that plagues big time college sports. These are issues that go beyond the sports pages." --Bob Costas
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Synopsis
"How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won't anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?" In the four years since Joe Nocera asked those ques-tions 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, men's bas-ketball and football, are little more than indentured servants. Millions of teenagers accept scholarships to chase their dreams of fame and fortune--at the price of absolute submission to the whims of an organiza-tion that puts their interests dead last. For about 5 percent of top-division players, college ends with a golden ticket to the NFL or the NBA. But what about the overwhelming majority who never turn pro? They don't earn a dime from the estimated $13 billion generated annually by college sports--an ocean of cash that enriches schools, conferences, coaches, TV networks, and apparel companies . . . everyone except those who give their blood and sweat to entertain the fans. Indentured tells the dramatic story of a loose-knit group of rebels who decided to fight the hypocrisy of the NCAA, which blathers endlessly about the purity of its "student-athletes" while exploiting many of them: The ones who get injured and drop out be-cause their scholarships have been revoked. The ones who will neither graduate nor go pro. The ones who live in terror of accidentally violating some obscure rule in the four-hundred-page NCAA rulebook. Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss take us into the inner circle of the NCAA's fiercest enemies. You'll meet, among others . . . -Sonny Vaccaro, the charismatic sports marketer who convinced Nike to sign Michael Jordan. Dis-gusted by how the NCAA treated athletes, Vaccaro used his intimate knowledge of its secrets to blow the whistle in a major legal case. -Ed O'Bannon, the former UCLA basketball star who realized, years after leaving college, that the NCAA was profiting from a video game using his image. His lawsuit led to an unprecedented antitrust ruling. -Ramogi Huma, the founder of the National Col-lege Players Association, who dared to think that college players should have the same collective bargaining rights as other Americans. -Andy Schwarz, the controversial economist who looked behind the fa ade of the NCAA and saw it for what it is: a cartel that violates our core values of free enterprise. Indentured reveals how these and other renegades, working sometimes in concert and sometimes alone, are fighting for justice in the bare-knuckles world of college sports., For more than half a century, the NCAA has been one of the most powerful institutions in America, acting to prevent college athletes from receiving any money from their labours while enriching everyone else involved in college sports. In 2000 a few brave individuals took on this cartel, and paved the way for others to do the same. This is the story of a small band of renegades who, against all odds, took on the NCAA, nearly bringing it to its knees, and exposing its tyranny to a new wave of challengers.
LC Classification Number
GV351.N64 2016
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