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Cheated: The UNC Scandal, the Education of Athletes, and the Future of Big-Time College Sports

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In 2010 allegations of an utterly corrupt academic system for student-athletes emerged from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus, home of the legendary Tar Heels. As the alma mater of Michael Jordan, Larry Brown, Marion Jones, Lawrence Taylor, Rashad McCants, and plenty of others; winner of forty national championships in six different sports; and a partner in probably the most best rivalries in sports, UNC–Chapel Hill is a world-famous colossus of college athletics. Within the wake of the Wainstein report, then again, the fallout from this scandal—and the continuing spotlight at the failings of college athletics—has made the school ground zero Within the debate about how the $16 billion college sports industry operates.
 
Written by UNC professor of history Jay Smith and UNC athletics department whistleblower Mary Willingham, Cheated exposes the fraudulent inner workings of this famous university. For decades these internal systems have allowed woefully underprepared basketball and football players to take fake courses and earn devalued degrees from probably the most nation’s top universities at the same time as faculty and administrators looked the opposite direction. In unbiased and carefully sourced detail, Cheated recounts the academic fraud in UNC’s athletics department, at the same time as university leaders focused on minimizing the damage as a way to keep the billion-dollar college sports revenue machine functioning. Smith and Willingham make an impassioned argument that the “student-athletes” in these programs are being cheated out of what, in the end, is promised them Within the first place: a college education. 

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