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Cheated: The UNC Scandal, the Education of Athletes, and the Future of Big-Time College Sports
Cheated The UNC Scandal the Education of Athletes and the Future of BigTime College Sports Author:Jay M. Smith, Mary Willingham In 2010 allegations of an utterly corrupted academic system for student-athletes emerged from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus, home of the legendary Tar Heels. Now, however, the fallout of this scandal?and the continuing spotlight on the failings of college athletics?has made the school ground zero in the debate about how ... more »the $16 billion college sports industry operates.
Written by UNC professor of history Jay Smith and UNC athletics department whistleblower Mary Willingham, Cheated: The UNC Scandal, the Education of Athletes, and the Future of Big-Time College Sports exposes the fraudulent inner workings of this famous university. For decades, woefully underprepared basketball and football players have taken fake courses and earned dubious degrees from one of the nation?s top universities while faculty and administrators looked the other way. Cheated recounts the academic fraud in UNC's athletic department and makes an impassioned argument that the ?student-athletes? in these programs are being cheated out of what, after all, was promised them in the first place: a college education.« less