Like a lot of college educators, Harry Edwards is disgusted and alarmed. Schools across the country have been shaken by yet another series of athletic scandals involving gambling on rigged games, alleged cocaine traffic among players, and recruiting payoffs. Underlying these recurrent problems, says Edwards, a sports sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, is a deeper issue: the colleges' neglect of the education of their athletes. "I've known athletes . . . who are functional illiterates and have been here for four years," says Edwards, a former college basketball player and track star. "If this is going on at Berkeley,...
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