![The Cartel by Taylor Branch](../wp-content/uploads/2013/01/26branch-pic2-articleInline.jpg)
The Cartel, Branch’s 25,000-word narrative—a portion of which appeared in the October 2011 Atlantic—is his devastating investigation into college sports and the NCAA.
In it Branch exposes decades of greed and self-interest and makes clear that the organization is poised to collapse under the weight of its hypocrisy.