College Sports, Inc. by Murray Sperber

Murray Sperber can be reached at sperber@indiana.edu.

  The Only Book That Reveals the Truth About College Athletics

"The case against big-time sport may be building slowly, but it's building steadily. College Sports Inc. is an important contribution to it and in time no doubt will prove a useful one."

      -Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
"As literally engrossing as it is empirically revealing, an absolute necessity for anyone interested in truly understanding college sports today."
      -Harry Edwards, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

 

Discussing more than 150 college and universities-- with surprising new details about famous coaches and athletes-- Murray Sperber debunks the myths that surround intercollegiate athletics and perpetuate its abuses, demonstrating that almost all "franchises" in college sports lose money and cover their deficits by diverting funds from academic programs. This thorough investigation identifies the time bomb planted within American higher education and offers a plan for defusing it.

 
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The cover photograph of Knute Rockne is courtesy of The University of Notre Dame Archives, and the cover design is by Raquel Jaramillo.

 

This page updated July 14, 2004.