“The NCAA invented the term student-athlete to prevent the exact ruling that was made today. For 60 years, people have bought into the notion that they are students only. The reality is players are employees, and today’s ruling confirms that. The players are one giant step closer to justice.”
via Northwestern Wildcats football players win bid to unionize – ESPN.
It seems like, the more technology makes sports available to everyone, we are going to keep having a descending level of quality opinions. You just don’t see people give their take on something until it is on some kind of national stage. It’s why most people, when they try and talk politics, sound so uninformed. […]
At first it didn’t seem so bad – everything slowed down, there was almost a nice stillness to it all. But then the reports in Europe and other countries kept getting worse. And now, it’s in Detroit. In New York. All over our fucking country, scaring the living shit out of all of us whether […]
Can you imagine March without madness? What if every year, the NCAA only allowed the four #1 seeds to play in the tourney. It would be soooo boring. Yet, since college football BEGAN, we’ve tolerated an inept system that doesn’t provide a playoff. I have been looking through old Michigan years; apparently, if you didn’t […]
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……………… this is epic…..student athletes make money…….they share in the profits…….this should end the modern day sharecropping of students …and expose the system of wealth that is generated….. but not shared.
Indeed.