The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino: A Story of Corruption, Scandal, and the Big Business of College Basketball Audiobook (Free)

From acclaimed New York Situations Magazine author Michael Sokolove, the astonishing inside tale from the epic corruption scandal which has rocked the NCAA and exposed the rot and hypocrisy in the centre of big-time college sports.

At a lavish annual event in past due August 2017, the University of Louisville athletic movie director, who made more than $5 million in payment in 2016, announced an extension of his school’s sponsorship deal with Adidas: $160 mil for another a decade. The invitees were about The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino: A TALE of Problem, Scandal, as well as the Big Business of College Golf ball city’s gentry – equine breeders, bourbon distillers, companions at big lawyers, the state’s governor, Matt Bevin, and its own most effective politician, Senate Majority Head Mitch McConnell. One month later on, the FBI revealed that it got reached the endgame of the sprawling analysis of large-scale problem concerning Adidas, Louisville and a host of other schools, in which huge payments were laundered from Adidas through a network of coaches and fixers to athletes and their own families to induce them to visit Adidas-branded college programs. In short order, Hall of Popularity basketball coach Rick Pitino (salary: $8 million) and athletic director Tom Jurich had been fired, and fear and trembling swept through the world of bigtime college athletics. Because there is another footwear, as it had been, and it will fall.

WITHIN THE LAST Enticement OF RICK PITINO, Michael Sokolove lifts the rug around the Louisville scandal and locations it in the context from the very much wider problem, the farce of amateurism in bigtime college sports. In a world in which actually assistant coaches can make high-six and seven-figure salaries, so long as they keep carefully the ‘top notch’ athletes to arrive, shoe offers can reach into the nine figures, and many people are getting rich but the players, could it be surprising that unscrupulous parties would pay athletes, creating in place a black marketplace in teenagers, a veritable underground railroad of skill?

But a few bad apples are one thing. WITHIN THE LAST TEMPTATION OF RICK PITINO, Michael Sokolove shows an elaborate, systematic machine, involving hundreds of thousands of dollars in illicit obligations and linking at least among the largest clothes businesses in the world with schools across the country. The Louisville-Adidas scandal offers revealed an online of conspiracy whose scope provides shaken big-time university sports to its core, delivering a damaging blow to the illusion of amateurism, of ‘scholar athletes.’ A Shakespearean crisis of greed and desperation including some of the biggest people in the world of sports, THE FINAL TEMPTATION OF RICK PITINO would be the definitive chronicle of this scandal and its own broader echoes.