Kenneth Shropshire

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This biography of a living person relies largely or entirely on a single source. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Find sources: "Kenneth Shropshire" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2026) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This biography of a living person relies too much on references to primary sources. Please help by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Find sources: "Kenneth Shropshire" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page. See our advice if the article is about you and read our scam warning in case someone asks for money to edit this article. (April 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Kenneth L. Shropshire
Shropshire in 2017
Born	Kenneth L. Shropshire (1955-02-27) February 27, 1955 (age 71)
Occupations	Author, attorney, consultant, educator
Website	www.kennethshropshire.com

Kenneth L. Shropshire (born February 27, 1955)^{[citation needed]} is an American academic and attorney. He is the former CEO of the Global Sport Institute and Adidas Distinguished Professor of Global Sport at Arizona State University (2017-2022).

Early life and education

This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (June 2026)

Career

Shropshire took up a post at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1986.^{[citation needed]} He was the David W. Hauck Professor and the director of the Wharton Sports Business Initiative. For five years he was chair of the department of legal studies and business ethics. He left Wharton in 2017 to launch the Global Sport Institute at Arizona State University as its founding CEO. He returned to Wharton in 2022. In February 2026, Shropshire was named a strategic advisor at SeventySix Capital. He specializes in sports business and law, sports and social impact, and negotiations. He is a past president of the Sports Lawyers Association. He is the lead director at Moelis & Company.

When the National Football League sought to revive its career symposium, Shropshire assisted them in hosting the event at Wharton. This after leading the Business Management and Entrepreneurial Program for NFL players at Wharton since 2004.

Books

• Agents of Opportunity: Sports Agents and Corruption in Collegiate Sports (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990)
• The Sports Franchise Game: Cities in Pursuit of Sports Franchises, Events (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995)
• In Black and White: Race and Sports in America (New York University Press, 1996)
• Being Sugar Ray: The Life of Sugar Ray Robinson, America's Greatest Boxer and the First Celebrity Athlete (Basic Books, 2009)
• Sport Matters: Leadership, Power, and the Quest for Respect in Sports (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
• The Business of Sports Agents (with Timothy Davis and N. Jeremi Duru, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, 2nd ed., 2008, 3rd ed., 2016)
• The Miseducation of the Student Athlete: How to Fix College Sports (with Collin D. Williams, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017)

His edited volumes include:

• The Business of Sports (edited with Scott Rosner, 2nd ed., Jones & Bartlett, 2011)
• Basketball Jones: America Above the Rim (edited with Todd Boyd, New York University Press, 2000)

References

External links

• Official website
• University profile

This American law–related biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

• v
• t
• e

This article about a sportswriter from the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

• v
• t
• e

This article about an American journalist born in the 1950s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

• v
• t
• e