Cheated

Reviews / Votes

"Cheated sounds an important call for reform."-Gregg Easterbrook, Wall Street Journal "Those who care about the soul-and economics-of the $16 billion-a-year college sports industry should clear their reading calendar for Cheated."-Paul Barrett, Bloomberg Business "[Cheated] offers a stinging critique of UNC-Chapel Hill's handling of the academic and athletic wrongdoing that kept student athletes eligible to compete and persisted for nearly two decades."-Jane Stancill, News & Observer "All readers interested in education, public affairs, and college athletics will find this book essential."-John Maxymuk, Library Journal "This excellent book is a canary in the coalmine for those who love athletics at the collegiate level."-Jorge Iber, Sport in American History "The underlying fraud in big-time college athletics is academics. With the most comprehensive accounting, Smith and Willlingham paint an absolutely devastating picture of how so-called student-athletes are shamelessly exploited. . . . Cheated is nothing less than an American tragedy."-Frank Deford, author of The Entitled and senior contributing writer for Sports Illustrated "This book informed me that, as a black athlete and a student, more awareness and information about the universities you attend must be thoroughly analyzed before making a decision about your future. The details of fraudulent education and unprepared black athletes in this book should shame our society. I am a living testimony that this book is the Pandora's box of university secrets and black athlete exploitation. It is a must-read."-Rashad McCants, former NBA player and UNC NCAA Champion "Smith and Willingham's exposE of the corruption at the University of North Carolina reads like a suspense thriller but unfortunately is nonfiction. The authors offer concrete recommendations for college sports reform that should serve as a blueprint for all American universities."-Gerald Gurney, president of the Drake Group and assistant professor of adult and higher education at the University of Oklahoma