Kentucky's Domain of Power, Greed and Corruption

About the Book

Referring to college athletics as amateur sports is as archaic as football’s flying wedge that was outlawed almost a century ago. College athletics are all about multi-million-dollar programs, billion-dollar television contracts, corporate control and cronyism. Power greed and corruption have turned the top athletic programs into money-making machines controlled as much by people outside the program as university presidents and athletics directors.

Few, if any, books written about college athletics closely examine the behind the scenes deal making, how lucrative contracts are awarded and the favored few who benefit. This book reveals how and why sports decisions were made at the University of Kentucky, one of the nation’s top programs, how they were influenced by powerful elements who profited, sometimes by questionable legal and ethical tactics from these actions. Six years of solid academic research stands behind the facts revealed in this book.

About the Author

Betty Boles Ellison, author of Kentucky’s Domain of Power, Greed and Corruption and former journalist, has BA and MA degrees in history from the University of Kentucky.

Ellison’s journalistic background is as a newspaper editor, Kentucky’s chief travel writer, media consultant, and reporter.

She edited The History of the Daniel Boone National Forest; researched Clark County, Kentucky, A History for the Commonwealth’s historian laureate; was a member of the staff of The Kentucky Encyclopedia writing/ researching numerous entries, and is recognized as an outstanding historical researcher.