After a century of ineffective efforts to reform college sports, there is a growing concern over out-of-control commercialization that is driven by the college-sports entertainment industry to further its financial interests – exploiting college sports and its participating athletes while limiting access to higher education by real students. Accounts of the problems and issues surrounding commercialized college sports, along with congressional scrutiny of the tax-exempt status of the NCAA and intercollegiate athletics, are needed to get at the truth about big-time college sports … the brutal truth that is often obfuscated by myths, misrepresentations,
