Jonathan Mahler, Columnist

Is the NCAA More Corrupt Than Miami Hurricanes?

The S.I. story never stops to consider whether the economic forces that the NCAAâs rules are designed to impede might be too powerful to dam.Â

June 14, 2013 at 3:54 PM UTC

By Jonathan Mahler

Jonathan Mahler is a sports columnist for Bloomberg View. He is the author of the best-selling "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning," the basis for the eight-part ESPN mini-series. He also wrote "The Challenge," the winner of the 2009 Scribes Book Award, and "Death Comes to Happy Valley." A longtime contributor to the New York Times Magazine and the Times Book Review, Mahler has written for numerous other publications including the Washington Post, Slate, the New Republic and New York magazine. He lives in New York.

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The June 17 issue of Sports Illustrated includes a long feature on the NCAA's University of Miami debacle. (I wrote about the case here.)

It's not your usual portrait of a shady university knee-deep in recruiting violations. This time, the NCAA -- not the U -- comes in for some of the harshest criticism.