Circle Of Deceit: The Hypocrisy Of College Athletics

November, 1982

The whispers are stirring the stink of college sports again. They started when a top-ten basketball factory recruited one of those pubescent giants everybody wanted, and they will grow louder and nastier and more insistent until the kid inevitably turns professional. The coaches who didn't get him will tell you he's already a pro, of course, and once the bourbon begins to fuel their braggadocio, so will some of the school's high-rolling alumni.The same rumors are whispered every year about the s...

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