Personal Fouls: The Broken Promises and Shattered Dreams of Big Money Basketball at Jim Valvano's No

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Introductionhe corruption of our young has become the national pastime acrossAmerica. As we head into the 1990s, the old-fashioned values are moreand more being turned upside down. Education used to be revered, andsports used to be fun, and as a kid, my memory is that money was forbaseball cards, the movies, and root beer floats, not for drugs. Too many kids today don't admire the right people. Used to be, thecop on the beat and the teacher in the classroom were the role models.Now, it seems, it's anyone driving a red Porsche with a wad of doughin his pocket--regardless of how the gains are gotten. Crack dealers are looked up to by ghetto kids, while white-collarkids talk about their desire to emulate city slickers like Ivan Boesky andWall Street's cheats, the inside traders. They want to be winners, too.Rules are for suckers. No one can resist the smell of money. I suppose it shouldn't be surprising to find that corruption of valuesexists in the world of sports, even collegiate amateur sports, thatbastion of hypocrisy. As an example of where everyone's priorities lay,recently two sports agents, Norby Waiters and Lloyd Bloom, wereconvicted of racketeering and mail fraud for paying money to collegekids to be their agents--while the athletes were still in college. An objective observer might ask why a kid, no matter what his age,shouldn't have a professional doing the negotiating for him. Whyshouldn't a high school kid have an agent to get the best deal from the

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