Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA Audiobook (Free)

“How can the NCAA blithely wreck professions without respect to due procedure or common fairness? How do it act so ruthlessly to enforce guidelines that are so petty? Why won’t anybody endure these outrageous violations of American ideals and American justice?”

In the four years since Joe Nocera asked those ques­tions in a controversial New York Instances column, the Country wide Collegiate Athletic Association has come under open fire. Fans have begun to realize which the athletes mixed up in two about Indentured: THE WITHIN Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA biggest college sports, men’s bas­ketball and soccer, are little more than indentured servants. Millions of teens accept scholarships to chase their dreams of fame and fortune-at the price of absolute submission towards the whims of an organiza­tion that places their interests useless last.

For about 5 percent of top-division players, university ends using a golden solution to the NFL or the NBA. But how about the frustrating majority who never switch pro? They don’t earn a dime from your estimated $13 billion generated yearly by college sports-an ocean of money that enriches institutions, conferences, coaches, Television networks, and clothing companies . everyone except those that give their blood and sweat to amuse the fans.

Indentured tells the dramatic story of a loose-knit band of rebels who made a decision to fight the hypocrisy from the NCAA, which blathers endlessly about the purity of its “student-athletes” while exploiting most of them: The ones who get harmed and drop away be­cause their scholarships have been revoked. The types who’ll neither graduate nor move pro. The types who live in terror of unintentionally violating some obscure rule in the four-hundred-page NCAA rulebook.

Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss take us in to the internal circle of the NCAA’s fiercest foes. You’ll meet, amongst others . . .

·Sonny Vaccaro, the charismatic sports professional who convinced Nike to signal JORDAN. Dis­gusted by how the NCAA treated sportsmen, Vaccaro utilized his intimate understanding of its secrets to blow the whistle in a major legal case.

·Ed O’Bannon, the previous UCLA golf ball star who realized, years after leaving college, the fact that NCAA was profiting from a video game using his image. His lawsuit led to an unparalleled antitrust ruling.

·Ramogi Huma, the founder of the National Col­lege Players Association, who dared to think that university players must have the same collective bargaining rights as other Us citizens.

·Andy Schwarz, the controversial economist who looked behind the façade of the NCAA and saw it for what it really is: a cartel that violates our core ideals of free enterprise.

Indentured uncovers how these and various other renegades, working sometimes in concert and sometimes alone, are fighting for justice in the bare-knuckles world of college sports.