09/16/11: The Sham of College Sports




CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast show

Summary: The podcast gets a serious credibility boost, as Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Taylor Branch joins Matt Norlander to discuss his cover story for the October issue of The Atlantic, "The Shame of College Sports." Branch's story has already received loads of praise only a few days removed from its online publication. Frank Deford has already said it could be the most important thing ever written about the NCAA. Branch discusses how and why he chose to report on the NCAA, what he found, why his view about collegiate sports was drastically changed, and if this is all leading to the demise -- even disbanding -- of the NCAA as we've known it for more than 50 years.