Champions Method is a searing expose of the way the multibillion-dollar college sports activities empire fails universities, students, and sportsmen.

College sports have never been bigger. Once a roughneck intercollegiate pastime, football now commands millions of followers and generates massive revenues. New York Occasions investigative reporter Mike McIntire chronicles the rise in the recognition and power of college athletics, disclosing deeply troubling romantic relationships between college sports programs, the colleges about Champions Method: Football, Florida, and the Lost Soul of University Sports that sponsor them, booster organizations, local police departments, and the courts. Using the Florida Condition Seminoles, probably one of the most effective teams in NCAA background, for example, McIntire details a system that exploits sportsmen for profit, enables players to violate educational standards and, in some cases, shields them from legal prosecution.

At the heart of Champions Way may be the wrenching story of a whistleblower, Christie Suggs. This surprising expose reveals the degree of a corrupt tradition at the guts of American higher education, and the toll it requires in the players and those who dare to challenge the system.