
Out of Bounds
The Battle for the Soul of College Sports
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Chris Ballard
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The Battle for the Soul of College SportsMar 15 20222 minsFailed to add items
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About the Co-creator, Writer, and Narrator
Chris Ballard is an author, teacher, and Contributing Writer at
Sports Illustrated.
Chris has written four books, including
One Shot at Forever and
The Art of a Beautiful Game, and contributed to
The New York Times Magazine,
The Los Angeles Times, and numerous other publications. He has written for
Sports Illustrated since 2000, penning features, narratives, profiles, and columns. Six of his stories have been optioned for film and seven have been reprinted in the
Best American Sports Writing anthology. He was a finalist for a National Magazine Award, appeared in
The Best American Magazine Writing, and won the 2018 Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting, given annually to the best feature story in the country. Since 2016, he has taught courses on narrative writing and sports reporting at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Once upon a time, Chris played college sports himself, if not especially well, and now invests his energy in coaching his daughters in basketball - at least when they let him.

About the Co-creator and Executive Producer
About the Co-creator and Executive Producer
Peter McDonnell is an author and producer of audiobooks, audio series, and podcasts.
He is a writer and executive producer of
The New York Times bestseller
Evil Has a Name, as well as
Call Me God, selected as one of Audible’s Top 10 Listens of 2019,
Shootout,
Brooklyn North,
The Riddle of Emmon Bodfish, selected as one of Audible’s Best Listens of 2021,
A Devil in the Valley, and
After the Fall. He most recently wrote an Audible Original sports history series about Joan Benoit Samuelson and the history of women’s distance running called,
Miles to Go. Peter is a co-executive producer of the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary Pandemic and the NBC documentary series
The Forgotten West Memphis Three.
Peter runs the audio department at XG Productions in Los Angeles. He has never been a college athlete himself—unless you count playing D3 college football for one month before quitting to join a play.

About the Co-creator and Executive Producer
About the Co-creator and Executive Producer
Spencer Gordon is an entertainment attorney and President of XG Productions.
Spencer has served as an Executive Producer on XG’s slate of Audible Originals and brings a unique perspective to
Out of Bounds as a former Division I NCAA athlete turned lawyer. He’s a graduate of the USC Marshall School of Business where he played for the Pac-10 Championship Baseball Team and earned Pac-10 Conference All-Academic First-Team honors. He then earned a JD / MBA from Pepperdine University. Spencer has executive produced other sports series including
All the Way Up with Baker Mayfield for Fox, *Gone Gurle with Todd Gurley, and
Eto’o, the Samuel Eto’o story with Canal+. Most recently he was an Executive Producer of
Indivisible: Healing Hate for Paramount+.
XG Productions
XG Productions
Written and Narrated by Chris Ballard
Created and Executive Produced by Peter McDonnell, Spencer Gordon, and Chris Ballard
Edited by Peter McDonnell, Andrea Bruce, and Chris Ballard
Dialogue Editing, Sound Design, Mixing and Mastering by Matt Gurgol
Assistant Producer: Sydney Sidell
Narration Recording at Whip Records
Recording Engineer: David Landon
Cover Art by Gary Neill
Executive Producer for XG Productions: Peter Clemente
Produced by XG Productions
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As he lays out in the intro, the series isn't just about whether college athletes should be paid to play (which is what I expected.) It's about world-class hypocrisy, insane legal loopholes, sanctioned greed, racial inequity, the social-media revolution, the crushed dreams of young men and women, and how for a century the NCAA masterfully tricked the whole country into believing that the purity of college sport lay in NEVER allowing a student-athlete to receive a dime even as their school raked in millions from ticket sales and TV deals.
Jeremy Bloom, a former student-athlete who took the NCAA on head-to-head (guess who lost) is also an amazing first interview, dropping funny and insightful quote after quote. This was an awesome listen, and I can't believe I'm saying this but I now care about college sports!
NEVER knew this. Wow -- Great!
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Informative and smartly focused
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lessons on the NCAA
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Not Really Unbiased or All Facts
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