Saturday, September 24, 2011

Clock is ticking on the NCAA

If you ever hear Frank Deford on NPR, covering sports issues, you've heard him rail for years on the gross unfairness of the NCAA and how it and the schools involved reap hundreds of millions of dollars--for free, really--on the backs of college athletes. Now, a civil rights author, one very famous Taylor Branch has come out with a book on the subject. This book is shining a very bright light on the issues and how it boils down to blatant slavery. Links: http://www.npr.org/2011/09/14/140433661/the-ncaa-and-the-so-called-student-athlete; http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/8643/

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