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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     More Content       More by this author     Nocera, Joseph.     Subjects     National Collegiate Athletic Association.     College sports -- Economic aspects -- United States.     College athletes -- United States -- Economic conditions.     College sports -- United States -- Management.     College sports -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Nocera, Joseph.       by title:      Indentured : the ins...       by call number:      796.043 N756i     Search the Web     Nocera, Joseph.     National Collegiate Athletic Association.     College sports -- Economic aspects -- United States.     College athletes -- United States -- Economic conditions.     College sports -- United States -- Management.     College sports -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.       MARC Display

Indentured : the inside story of the rebellion against the NCAA / Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss. by Nocera, Joseph. Portfolio / Penguin, c2016. Call #: 796.043 N756i Subjects National Collegiate Athletic Association.   College sports -- Economic aspects -- United States.   College athletes -- United States -- Economic conditions.   College sports -- United States -- Management.   College sports -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States. ISBN:  9781591846321 (hc.) 1591846323 (hc.) Description:  ix, 369 p., 16 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes:  Includes index. Summary:  An investigation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The athletes involved in the two biggest college sports, men's basketball 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 organization 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 dollars 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. The NCAA blathers endlessly about the purity of its "student-athletes" while exploiting many of them: The ones who get injured and drop out because 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. In this book we meet Ramogi Huma, the founder of the National College Players Association, who dared to think that college players should have the same collective bargaining rights as other Americans, and Andy Schwarz, the economist who looked behind the fa©ʹade of the NCAA and saw it for what it is: a cartel that violates our core values of free enterprise. These and other renegades are fighting for justice in the bare-knuckles world of college sports. Other authors:  Strauss, Ben. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 796.043 N756i Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 796.043 N756i Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.043 N756i Adult books Central weeding Add Copy to MyList

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