Sports Agent Asserts Payments to 30 Ex-College Athletes

A longtime sports agent tells Sports Illustrated this week that he made payments to several dozen football players while they were in college, in violation of National Collegiate Athletic Association rules. The "as told to" tale from Josh Luchs recounts his payments to numerous well-known and not-so-famous athletes (many of which Sports Illustrated was able to confirm), and it comes at a time when the issue of sports agents is quickly rising on the college sports agenda, amid recent controversies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Southern California, and other highly visible sports programs.