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Champions Way

Football, Florida, and the Lost Soul of College Sports

by Mike McIntire
Barry Abrams
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Champions Way is a searing exposé of how the multibillion-dollar college sports empire fails universities, students, and athletes.
College sports have never been bigger. Once a roughneck intercollegiate pastime, football now commands millions of fans and generates massive revenues. New York Times investigative reporter Mike McIntire chronicles the rise in the popularity and power of college athletics, revealing deeply troubling relationships between college sports programs, the universities that host them, booster organizations, local police departments, and the courts. Using the Florida State Seminoles, one of the most successful teams in NCAA history, as an example, McIntire details a system that exploits athletes for profit, enables players to violate academic standards and, in some cases, shields them from criminal prosecution.
At the heart of Champions Way is the wrenching story of a whistleblower, Christie Suggs. This shocking exposé reveals the extent of a corrupt culture at the center of American higher education, and the toll it takes on the players and those who dare to challenge the system.

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  • Release date

    September 5, 2017

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      • ISBN: 9781541426696
      • File size: 191034 KB
      • Duration: 06:37:59

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 12, 2017
      New York Times investigative reporter McIntire painstakingly lays out a damning case that Florida State University and its sports program abet sexual assaults and academic fraud as the price for producing championship football teams. McIntire introduces relevant individuals (such as FSU president Eric Barron, who would later become president of Penn State) and story lines early in the book as he carefully lays a foundation for his argument. He effectively weaves together emails, police reports, court transcripts, and interviews with whistle-blowers and victims to show a pattern in how Seminole stakeholders handled scandals. The rape allegation against star quarterback Jameis Winston in 2013 is the most-well-known episode in the book (Winston was cleared the next year), but McIntire delves deeper into that and many other events to show negligence by campus and local police, grade manipulation and deceit by FSU administrators, and shadowy mess cleaning by attorneys and boosters in order to keep star players on the field. McIntire summarizes the history of college sports and the social and economic culture of football in American universities, particularly in the South, convincingly arguing that these transgressions are widespread.

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