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WHY THE NBA NEEDS TO END ITS LONG-STANDING RELATIONSHIP WITH NCAA COLLEGE SPORTS

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WHY THE NBA NEEDS TO END ITS LONG-STANDING RELATIONSHIP WITH NCAA COLLEGE SPORTS

The NCAA is the omnipotent organization that runs college athletics in the United States. The NCAA and its member college and university athletic departments raked in a whopping $18.9 billion dollars in 2019. The college athletes are the revenue generators and the labor. Without the college athletes, the NCAA would not exist. Yet, college athletes receive no compensation. While college basketball and football players are predominately black, NCAA executives, athletic directors, coaches, media personalities, and television producers are overwhelmingly white. Thus, the unpaid black athletes make extraordinary sums of money for wealthy white men who reap the spoils of a grossly exploitative system

Broken Sneakers and the Little-Known World of Loss of Value Insurance

Broken Sneakers and the Little-Known World of Loss of Value Insurance

It was the sneaker blow-out heard around the world, or at least around the United States. On February 20, 2019, in front of a packed house at Cameron Indoor Stadium that even included former President Barack Obama, Duke basketball’s freshman phenom, Zion Williamson, went down. When Williamson stepped awkwardly, his foot tore through his Nike sneaker, bringing him to the hardwood with a sprained knee. The crowd, which only a few moments earlier was loud with excitement at what promised to be a riveting Duke vs. North Carolina basketball game, fell silent. The faces in the crowd expressed a combination of fear and concern: fear that Duke’s season could be over, but also concern that they may have witnessed the end of a promising career.

Student-Athletes or Athlete-Students?

Student-Athletes or Athlete-Students?

Written by Anthony J. Holesworth

On September 21, 2013, Northwestern University’s starting quarterback at the time, Kain Colter, wore a wristband with the letters “A.P.U” (All Players United) during a game. This simple act was the seminal event in what has become the highly publicized effort to unionize Northwestern’s scholarship football players.