Agents of Opportunity: Sports Agents and Corruption in Collegiate Sports - Softcover

Shropshire, Kenneth L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812214439 ISBN 13: 9780812214437

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992

Synopsis

In Agents of Opportunity, Kenneth L. Shropshire examines the history of the sports-agent industry, the development of college sports, and the rules and laws that have developed to regulate them. He also offers recommendations for reform, including increasing compensation to college athletes, stiffening licensing requirements for sports agents, allowing underclassmen to be drafted by professional teams without loosing their ametuer status if they decide not to remain in college.

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Review:

"Enter the world of unscrupulous sports agents and watch as they bribe unsuspecting student athletes, mismanage their contracts, violate NCAA regulations, and leave scandal- and probation-ridden universities in their wake. Although he relates many such tales of greed and woe, Kenneth Shropshire is not only interested in bashing sports agents. His straightforward and evenhanded analysis also provides some sound solutions to the problems surrounding the recruitment of college athletes into professional sports."-Harvard Law Review

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0812214439
• ISBN 13: 9780812214437
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194