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Prof. Shropshire Named Top Sports Educator
The Institute for International
Sport recently
named Professor Kenneth
Shropshire, director of the
Wharton Sports Business
Initiative, one of the “100
Most Influential Sports
Educators in America.”
Shropshire is the author
of several award-winning
books such as The Business
of Sports, The Business of
Sports Agents, The Sports
Franchise Game, In Black
and White, Sports and the
Law, Basketball Jones, and
most recently, Being Sugar
Ray: The Life of Sugar Ray
Robinson, America’s Greatest
Boxer and Celebrity Athlete.
The Wharton Sports
Business Initiative recently
hosted 36 NFL athletes, including
Drew Brees, Ahman
Green, Takeo Spikes and
Troy Vincent, in a business
program to assist athletes in
transitioning into the business
world.
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