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Kentucky's Domain of Power, Greed and Corruption - Couverture souple

Ellison, Betty

 
9780595159918: Kentucky's Domain of Power, Greed and Corruption
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595159915 ISBN 13 : 9780595159918
Editeur : iUniverse, 2001

Synopsis

Referring to college athletics as amateur sports is as archaic as footballs flying wedge that was outlawed almost a century ago. College athletics are all about multi-million-dollar programs, billion-dollar television contracts, corporate control and cronyism. Power greed and corruption have turned the top athletic programs into money-making machines controlled as much by people outside the program as university presidents and athletics directors.Few, if any, books written about college athletics closely examine the behind the scenes deal making, how lucrative contracts are awarded and the favored few who benefit. This book reveals how and why sports decisions were made at the University of Kentucky, one of the nations top programs, how they were influenced by powerful elements who profited, sometimes by questionable legal and ethical tactics from these actions. Six years of solid academic research stands behind the facts revealed in this book.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Referring to college athletics as amateur sports is as archaic as footballs flying wedge that was outlawed almost a century ago. College athletics are all about multi-million-dollar programs, billion-dollar television contracts, corporate control and cronyism. Power greed and corruption have turned the top athletic programs into money-making machines controlled as much by people outside the program as university presidents and athletics directors.Few, if any, books written about college athletics closely examine the behind the scenes deal making, how lucrative contracts are awarded and the favored few who benefit. This book reveals how and why sports decisions were made at the University of Kentucky, one of the nations top programs, how they were influenced by powerful elements who profited, sometimes by questionable legal and ethical tactics from these actions. Six years of solid academic research stands behind the facts revealed in this book.

Biographie de l'auteur

Betty Boles Ellison, author of Kentuckys Domain of Power, Greed and Corruption and former journalist, has BA and MA degrees in history from the University of Kentucky.Ellisons journalistic background is as a newspaper editor, Kentuckys chief travel writer, media consultant, and reporter. She edited The History of the Daniel Boone National Forest; researched Clark County, Kentucky, A History for the Commonwealths historian laureate; was a member of the staff of The Kentucky Encyclopedia writing/ researching numerous entries, and is recognized as an outstanding historical researcher.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595159915
ISBN 13 
9780595159918
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
448
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