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NCAA Opens Door to College Athletes Being Able to Make Their Own Coins Off Their Own Names and Images
The NCAA on Tuesday opened the door to college athletes being able to profit from their own names and likenesses, and finally share in the billions of dollars their athletic prowess brings to colleges and universities across the country. In a news release, the college sports governing body indicated that it was willing to discuss…
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NCAA Throws a Temper Tantrum After California Passes Bill to Stop It From Continuing to Exploit Student-Athletes
The NCAA is a lot like Death Row Records. Sure, the fanfare is intoxicating, but at the end of the day you don’t own shit, you make no money, and quite literally everybody is caking off your hard work but you. However, player empowerment has become en vogue in the NBA and thankfully, has begun…
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Watch: Mother of Former Duke Player Wendell Carter Jr. Compares NCAA Basketball to Slavery and Prison
Kylia Carter, mother of former Duke basketball star Wendell Carter Jr., didn’t mince words during an emotional speech to the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, in which she compared the current NCAA basketball system to slavery and prison. “When you remove all the bling and the bells and the sneakers and all that,” Carter said,…
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Why I’m Rooting for Everybody Black in the NCAA Basketball Tournament
HBO’s Insecure star Issa Rae famously declared during a red-carpet interview at the Primetime Emmy Awards in September that she was “rooting for everybody black.” Some deemed the statement racist. Many misinterpreted Rae’s advocacy as opposition to all nominees who weren’t black. That’s not what I heard. Anyone familiar with the lack of racial diversity…
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LaVar Ball Just Declared War on the NCAA, and Something Tells Me This Isn’t Going to End Well
The most hated sports dad in American history may have just taken his hate levels to new heights. The Big Baller Brand CEO isn’t just telling his kids to skip college—he’ll soon be offering top high school prospects a paid alternative to the National Collegiate Athletic Association. On Tuesday, Ball announced that he’s starting the…
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Just a Reminder: The NCAA Is a Plantation, and the Players Are the Sharecroppers
One of the biggest bait and switches ever pulled on American citizens was the ruse of collectively shared farming. It was a simple but effective long con. Farmers and plantation owners convinced newly freed slaves and poor people to work a portion of their land in exchange for a share of the harvest. In theory,…
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Why People Just Don't Give A Fuck About College Athletes Being Exploited
Last week, a friend joked that the first Thursday and Friday of the NCAA tournament should be national holidays. No one gets any work done anyway, he said, so why not just give everyone those two days off? This was not the first and will not be the last time I’ll hear someone make a…