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Cheated : The UNC Scandal, the Education of Athletes, and the Future of Big-Time College Sports by Mary Willingham and Jay M. Smith (2015, Hardcover)

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PublisherPotomac Books, Incorporated

ISBN-101612347282

ISBN-139781612347288

eBay Product ID (ePID)209921578

Product Key Features

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameCheated : the Unc Scandal, the Education of Athletes, and the Future of Big-Time College Sports

Publication Year2015

SubjectSecondary, Sociology of Sports, United States / 21st Century, Higher, Sports

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSports & Recreation, Education, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorMary Willingham, Jay M. Smith

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight20.8 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2014-042237

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"This book informed me that as a black athlete and a student, more awareness and information about the universities you attend must be thoroughly analyzed before making a decision about your future. The details of fraudulent education and unprepared black athletes in this book should shame our society. I am a living testimony that this book is the Pandora's box of university secrets and black athlete exploitation. It is a must read."--Rashad McCants, former NBA player and UNC NCAA Champion, "Smith and Willingham's exposé of the corruption at the University of North Carolina reads like a suspense thriller but unfortunately is nonfiction. The authors offer concrete recommendations for college sports reform that should serve as a blueprint for all American universities." --Gerald Gurney, president of the Drake Group and assistant professor of adult and higher education at the University of Oklahoma, "[ Cheated ] offers a stinging critique of UNC-Chapel Hill's handling of the academic and athletic wrongdoing that kept student athletes eligible to compete and persisted for nearly two decades."--Jane Stancill, News & Observer, "The underlying fraud in big-time college athletics is academics. With the most comprehensive accounting, Smith and Willlingham paint an absolutely devastating picture of how so-called student-athletes are shamelessly exploited. . . . Cheated is nothing less than an American tragedy." --Frank Deford, author of The Entitled and senior contributing writer for Sports Illustrated, "All readers interested in education, public affairs, and college athletics will find this book essential."--John Maxymuk, Library Journal, "This excellent book is a canary in the coalmine for those who love athletics at the collegiate level."--Jorge Iber, Sport in American History, "The underlying fraud in big-time college athletics is academics. With the most comprehensive accounting, Smith and Willlingham paint an absolutely devastating picture of how so-called 'student-athletes' are shamelessly exploited. . . . Cheated is nothing less than an American tragedy."--Frank Deford, author of The Entitled and senior contributing writer for Sports Illustrated, "This book informed me that, as a black athlete and a student, more awareness and information about the universities you attend must be thoroughly analyzed before making a decision about your future. The details of fraudulent education and unprepared black athletes in this book should shame our society. I am a living testimony that this book is the Pandora's box of university secrets and black athlete exploitation. It is a must-read." --Rashad McCants, former NBA player and UNC NCAA Champion, "Smith and Willingham's exposé of the corruption at the University of North Carolina reads like a suspense thriller but unfortunately is nonfiction. The authors offer concrete recommendations for college sports reform that should serve as a blueprint for American universities."--Gerald Gurney, president of the Drake Group and assistant professor of adult and higher education at the University of Oklahoma

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal796.04/309756565

Table Of ContentList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: The Scandal beneath the Scandals Abbreviations Chapter 1. Paper-Class Central Chapter 2. A Fraud in Full Chapter 3. The Making of a Cover-up Chapter 4. Lost Opportunities Chapter 5. The University Doubles Down Chapter 6. On a Collision Course Chapter 7. "No one ever asked me to write anything before" Chapter 8. Tricks of the Trade Chapter 9. Echoes across the Land Conclusion: Looking to the Future Epilogue Notes Index

SynopsisIn 2010 allegations of an utterly corrupt academic system for student-athletes emerged from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus, home of the legendary Tar Heels. As the alma mater of Michael Jordan, Larry Brown, Marion Jones, Lawrence Taylor, Rashad McCants, and many others; winner of forty national championships in six different sports; and a partner in one of the best rivalries in sports, UNC-Chapel Hill is a world-famous colossus of college athletics. In the wake of the Wainstein report, however, the fallout from this scandal--and the continuing spotlight on the failings of college athletics--has made the school ground zero in the debate about how the $16 billion college sports industry operates. Written by UNC professor of history Jay Smith and UNC athletics department whistleblower Mary Willingham, Cheated exposes the fraudulent inner workings of this famous university. For decades these internal systems have allowed woefully underprepared basketball and football players to take fake courses and earn devalued degrees from one of the nation's top universities while faculty and administrators looked the other way. In unbiased and carefully sourced detail, Cheated recounts the academic fraud in UNC's athletics department, even as university leaders focused on minimizing the damage in order to keep the billion-dollar college sports revenue machine functioning. Smith and Willingham make an impassioned argument that the "student-athletes" in these programs are being cheated out of what, after all, is promised them in the first place: a college education., For twelve years the women's basketball rivalry between UConn and Tennessee was the most iconic matchup in women's sports. Even now, twenty years since the annual series started, the competition between these two storied programs still provokes heated argument and bitter resentment. Led by Hall of Fame coaches Geno Auriemma and Pat Summitt, UConn and Tennessee combined for nine national championships, with the UConn Huskies winning five-including four against the Tennessee Lady Vols. In all, UConn won thirteen of twenty-two matchups during the rivalry, and along the way the two coaches-with distinctive and brash personalities and a shared determination to rule their sport-clashed privately and publicly, generating enough heat to make women's basketball relevant in the national sports landscape as never before. On the court, the two teams produced a series of memorable games, from overtime thrillers to timeless classics that defined the sport. Off the court, the coaches' encounters were often marked by their seemingly genuine dislike for each other, until the conflict reached a breaking point in 2007 and Summitt stunned the basketball world by canceling the series for reasons neither side has ever revealed. Now, eight years after the last game, Unrivaled uncovers the on-court and behind-the-scenes story of this intensely personal rivalry between coaches, players, and the two most passionate fan bases women's sports has ever known. Jeff Goldberg was the UConn women's basketball writer for the Hartford Courant from 2001 to 2006 and is the author of Bird at the Buzzer: UConn, Notre Dame, and a Women's Basketball Classic (Nebraska, 2011). Rebecca Lobo played for coach Auriemma at UConn and on three teams in the WNBA. She is now a television basketball analyst for ESPN.

LC Classification NumberGV691.U57S65 2015