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The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino: A Story of Corruption, Scandal, and the Big
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- ISBN
- 9780399563294
- Book Title
- Last Temptation of Rick Pitino : A Story of Corruption, Scandal, and the Big Business of College Basketball
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation
- Topic
- Sociology of Sports, Coaching / Basketball, Basketball, Sports
- Item Width
- 5.4 in
- Item Weight
- 8.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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From acclaimed New York Times Magazine author Michael Sokolove, the full inside story of the NCAA's epic corruption scandal that exposed the rot and hypocrisy at the heart of big-time college sports. In 2017, the FBI revealed that it had reached the endgame of a sprawling investigation of large-scale corruption involving Adidas, Louisville and a host of other colleges, in which large payments were laundered from Adidas through a network of coaches and fixers to athletes and their families to induce them to go to Adidas-branded college programs. In short order, Hall of Fame basketball coach Rick Pitino (salary: $8 million) and athletic director Tom Jurich were fired, and fear, trembling, and some high-profile litigation swept through the world of bigtime college athletics. In THE LAST TEMPTATION OF RICK PITINO, Michael Sokolove not only lifts the rug on the Louisville scandal but also places it in the context of the much wider problem, the farce of amateurism in bigtime college sports. In a world in which even assistant coaches can make high-six and seven-figure salaries, as long as they keep the "elite" athletes coming in, shoe deals can reach into the nine figures, and everyone is getting rich but the players, can it be surprising that unscrupulous parties would pay athletes, creating in effect a black market in young men, a veritable underground railroad of talent? But a few bad apples are one thing. In THE LAST TEMPTATION OF RICK PITINO, Michael Sokolove shows an elaborate, systematic machine, involving hundreds of thousands of dollars in illicit payments and connecting at least one of the largest apparel companies in the world with schools across the country. The Louisville-Adidas scandal has revealed a web of conspiracy whose scope has shaken big-time college sports to its core, delivering a devastating blow to the fantasy of amateurism, of "scholar athletes." A Shakespearean drama of greed and desperation involving some of the biggest characters in the arena of sports, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF RICK PITINO is the definitive chronicle of this scandal and its broader echoes.
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Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0399563296
ISBN-13
9780399563294
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8038299172
Product Key Features
Book Title
Last Temptation of Rick Pitino : A Story of Corruption, Scandal, and the Big Business of College Basketball
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Sociology of Sports, Coaching / Basketball, Basketball, Sports
Publication Year
2019
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Item Weight
8.6 Oz
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Trade
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Gv884.P57s65 2019
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"Though focusing on one disgraced coach and his former program, this exposé shows just how wide and deep is the corruption corroding men's college basketball....It's 'a climate of moral rot' that will exist as long as college basketball generates huge sums of money while those who play the game, often from underprivileged families, are supposed to receive nothing. While the FBI investigation continues to play itself out in court, Sokolove's welcome context could well influence the court of public opinion." -- Kirkus , starred review "Using the tarnished legacy of former University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino as an anchor, Sokolove ( Drama High ) provides a lucid account of large-scale corruption in college basketball . . . a richly detailed, enlightening account of college sports." -Publishers Weekly
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2019-302720
Dewey Decimal
796.323
Dewey Edition
23
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