Showing posts with label NCAA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NCAA. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

The coaches could pay H-O-R-S-E instead: "NCAA Players Should Strike at the Final Four."

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Photo credit: Forbes . They're schools first, and sports programs second. Perhaps the single point uniting Democrats and Republican...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

"The NCAA is a zombie system, feeding on the flesh of the people they are supposed to be educating."

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A book worth reading, but you won't, will you? It's another of my periodic reminders that Dave Zirin is among the select few sp...
Friday, December 23, 2016

"A rank hypocrite and a user of teenagers. In other words, a typical, big-time, top-tier NCAA football coach."

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A book worth reading, but you won't, will you? It's another of my periodic reminders that Dave Zirin is among the select few sp...
Monday, March 14, 2016

"A billion dollar sports enterprise where the athletes aren't paid a penny."

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The video is from 2015, but since the story is repeated each year, the relevance has no shelf life. Last year 'round this time, I was...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Zirin on "Louisville Basketball and the NCAA’s Political Economy of Misogyny."

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Former University of Michigan and NBA star Jalen Rose, as quoted in the Detroit Free Press  on the topic of college athletic recruitment: ...
Monday, March 30, 2015

Olbermann: "Sports (and its consumer -- you) are unavoidably, inescapably and permanently political."

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Olbermann's not alone. On Saturday, Dave Zirin published his version of the same argument. Why the NCAA Should Move the Final Four...
Friday, March 20, 2015

John Calipari is far more refreshingly transparent than Jeff Gahan.

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Meme from John Oliver's video. Follow the SB Nation link to watch it. Great opening from the New York Post's Phil Mushnick. ...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Finally tackling "the hypocrisy at the root of the big-time college sports system."

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There's nothing inherently wrong with the notion of college athletics, even if  the system makes a mockery of any sensible notion of ...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

More on the "college athletics charade."

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I've been here before, oft times. Down with the NCAA? Sounds wonderful to me. Diggin' it: "Lawsuit Declares NCAA An ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Diggin' it: "Lawsuit Declares NCAA An 'Unlawful Cartel' That Illegally Restricts Athlete Earning Power."

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Power to the people. Who among us finds it acceptable to generate billions and be remunerated farthings? Especially when you read pieces lik...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

REWIND: A labor theory of basketball value.

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In 2011, this column appeared in the newspaper, and today, I'm liberating it from behind the Hanson Pay Wall. In our fast-moving world o...
Saturday, May 04, 2013

Down with the NCAA? Sounds wonderful to me.

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Even if you buy the bilge water of collegiate amateurism, and I surely don't, you should be in favor of dismantling the NCAA -- which do...
Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Ware's place as a cog in the NCAA money machine.

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I understand not many hoops junkie readers will want to think about this, but it doesn't mean you should ignore it. Will Ware be stuc...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Zirin nails it: NCAA as "Poster Boy for Corruption and Exploitation."

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Couldn't have said it better myself, although heaven knows, I've tried. Call me a Marxist if you wish, but when players generate bil...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Why discuss student-athletes when there's money to be made?

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As noted here previously , the first requirement for the meaningful reform of a core-rotten edifice is for its devotees to acknowledge the p...