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A hard-hitting study of the many ways college sports has been changed into a moneymaking spectacle that is hurting higher education. In the spring of 2013, a report confirmed that despite huge monetary problems, 27 states were awarding their highest incomes to college sports coaches. College sports has doubled in size in the last decade thanks to generous tax breaks, lavish Tv set deals, and corporate and business sponsors eager to slap their logos on everything from scoreboards to footballs and uniforms. In a single recent season, the 10 biggest programs required in $800 million from sports, with income very good surpassing those of Lot of money 500 companies. Little of this money would go to academics. Instead it sustains a wildly profligate infrastructure of mentors, trainers, marketing experts, tutors, and a growing cadre of athletic division bureaucrats whose single goal is to ensure that players stay academically permitted play. In Billion-Dollar Ball, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gilbert M. Gaul offers a amazing, incendiary study of how college sports has come to dominate some of our best, most prestigious universities, reframing campus values, distorting educational missions, and changing athletic departments into astonishingly rich entertainment factories.
