Black Market: my life inside the seedy underbelly of college basketball

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In an extract from his new book, Merl Code explains how he found himself in the middle of a corruption scandal that rocked the NCAA

“Adidas executives Merl Code and Jim Gatto were widely known in the basketball industry as benevolent dealmakers, behind-the-scenes shakers and confidants of the sport’s boldfaced names,”

I know which side of that argument I take, but I’ll also concede that it’s not black-and-white. I lived my entire professional life in the gray. “It appears that all this type of conduct is prevalent in college basketball and other college sports,” the judge said at my sentencing. “The money is there. There’s a lot of it and it’s so easy to take it. It doesn’t make it right, but it explains how an individual like Mr Code ends up in this courtroom today.”

 

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