Books in Brief: Athletes for Sale

Athletes for Sale, by Kenneth Denlinger and Leonard Shapiro (Crowell, 262 pp., $6.95).

Two reporters on the payroll of the Washington Post have written “an investigation into America’s greatest sports scandal—athletic recruiting.” Sorry to let you down, scandal freaks, but Denlinger and Shapiro have a lot less to go on than Woodward and Bernstein. A large portion of the book covers the recruiting of two high school basketball stars of the Washington area, Bruce Buckley and Adrian Dantley. Unfortunately for the authors, Buckley and Dantley were treated honorably by the colleges and their recruiters; thus they were unable to provide any horror stories. Our authors, however, didn’t give up. The rest of the book is padded with tales of slush funds and redundant stories about stars who never made it in college.

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Athletes for Sale, by Kenneth Denlinger and Leonard Shapiro (Crowell, 262 pp., $6.95).

Two reporters on the payroll of the Washington Post have written “an investigation into America’s greatest sports scandal—athletic recruiting.” Sorry to let you down, scandal freaks, but Denlinger and Shapiro have a lot less to go on than Woodward and Bernstein. A large portion of the book covers the recruiting of two high school basketball stars of the Washington area, Bruce Buckley and Adrian Dantley. Unfortunately for the authors, Buckley and Dantley were treated honorably by the colleges and their recruiters; thus they were unable to provide any horror stories. Our authors, however, didn’t give up. The rest of the book is padded with tales of slush funds and redundant stories about stars who never made it in college.