Out of Bounds: How the American Sports Establishment is Being Driven by Greed and Hypocrisy--And What Needs to Be Done about It

Little is new in this searching look at the American sports scene--from Little Leagues to the pros--but this book's message carries special impact because it comes from a Maryland congressman who was a college basketball All-American, a Rhodes Scholar, an Olympic athlete and an NBA player for 11 years. With freelancer Coggins ( The Lady Is the Tiger ), McMillen takes sharp aim at college sports and the NCAA, which he sees as joining forces to grab television money while treating athletes like peons--exploiting them and then tossing them aside without degrees. He argues that organized youth sports exist only to give adults pleasure, and criticizes the U.S. government for its failure to propagandize physical fitness for the general public, and shows how women have been euchered out of control of women's college sports. Though McMillen has little encouraging to say, he concludes by offering remedies for many of these ills. Photos not seen by PW. (May)