Sole influence
Subtitle: basketball, corporate greed, and the corruption of America's youth
By: Dan Wetzel and Don Yaeger
Contributors: Yaeger, Don
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Basketball -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States; Basketball -- Economic aspects -- United States; Basketball -- Social aspects -- United States
Description: "On city playgrounds and in high-school gymnasiums, the search goes on for the next Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant - potential superstars who can bring millions in sales to the athletic shoe companies they endorse. Now an explosive and controversial expose at last reveals the ongoing exploitation of college, high-school, and even junior-high-school players by profit-minded sneaker companies."--BOOK JACKET.

"Written by two of the most knowledgeable journalists in sports, SOLE INFLUENCE takes you into this battle for the hearts, minds, and feet of young athletes - at any price. Along the way, it shows how criminals, including drug dealers and sex offenders, have ended up on a shoe company's payroll.

More frightening, this book reveals how corporate money funneled into amateur sports has created black-market professionalism among college and high-school athletes, with promises of fame and fortune that for most players will simply never come true."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index