The College Football Problem by Rick Telander

The College Football Problem by Rick Telander

A detailed expose on the corruption in college football by acclaimed sportswriter Rick Telander, with a foreword by Rick Reilly! In 1989, when Rick Telander first published The Hundred Yard Lie, he proposed that big-time college football should be professionalised. In doing so, Telander was ahead of his time, for the problems that he outlined more than thirty years ago are still relevant today - and in some cases are more severe. In The College Football Problem, a newly revised edition of the 1989 book, Telander reveals that more than thirty years later there still exists the dominance of multimillionaire coaches whose only goal is winning regardless of cost to athletes; the presence of wealthy boosters, board members, and athletic department big shots who have little regard for the academic side of universities; and, of course, the exploited players themselves - many of whom are impoverished minorities - who too often leave school without degrees or real world working skills but with physical injuries and mental betrayals that often will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Many of these concerns have come to a head in California, where in the Fall of 2019 the governor passed the Fair Pay to Play Act, whereby college athletes can hire agents to help them with business deals. With a new foreword by Rick Reilly, this book frames these longtime issues in a new light and offers solutions from Telander in an attempt to put an end to the corruption once and for all.

Rick Telanderis a sports columnist for theChicago Sun-Times and a former senior writer for Sports Illustrated and ESPN: the Magazine.Telander has won the Illinois Sportswriter of the Year Award nine times, and in 2018 he was awarded the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the author of eight books, includingHeaven is a PlaygroundandIn the Year of the Bull.

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ISBN 13	9781683583523
ISBN 10	1683583523
Titel	The College Football Problem
Autor	Rick Telander
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Verlag	Sports Publishing LLC
Erscheinungsjahr	2020-10-06
Seitenanzahl	288
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.