Champions Way: Football, Florida, and the Lost Soul of College Sports [Hardcover]

Eye-opening and important....any honest reader will come away appalledand rightfully so.McIntire paints a grim picture of a culture of malfeasance, particularly in its treatment of women, at the heart of college athletics.A deeply unsettling expos?.[McIntire] effectively weaves together emails, police reports, court transcripts, and interviews with whistle-blowers and victims....[He] summarizes the history of college sports and the social and economic culture of football in American universities&convincingly arguing that these transgressions are widespread.Notable and heartrending.Relentlessly reported,In a damning, taut narrative,Investigative reporter Mike McIntire has written a smart and fearless expos? of the madness and corruption undermining college football. From widespread academic fraud to the sexual predators to the hypocrisy of college presidents, it's all here in shocking detail and highly readable prose. A timely and important book.College athletic programs are prisms revealing the priorities of our schools, and our society. InA searing expos? of how the multibillion dollar college sports empire fails universities, students, and athletes.