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Joe Nocera is right that paying college athletes has created a mess. But as iPINIONS argues, this is good mess… the kind that exposes old injustice, shatters NCAA hypocrisy, and forces long-overdue reform. The chaos around NIL, transfers, and athlete pay is not the problem. It is the moral bill finally coming due. Read my… Read more.
March Madness remains a cultural rite of passage. But sports media still treats the women’s tournament like an afterthought, even as its stars shine and its bracket players outperform the men by a mile. iPINIONS calls out the chauvinism, the coverage gap, and the gambling culture distorting the whole spectacle. Read my full take on… Read more.
For years, iPINIONS called the NCAA’s treatment of student-athletes the greatest injustice in American sports. Now a federal judge has approved a $2.8 billion settlement that finally forces colleges to pay. It’s not just a legal shift; it’s a moral reckoning. Read my full post on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/judge-approves-historic-ncaa-settlement Read more.
Paying student-athletes Amateurism in college sports has always been akin to puritanism in escort services. But on Thursday, college sports finally gave up the charade. The NCAA and the Power Five athletic conferences agreed to pay student-athletes. And the legal right student-athletes won recently to profit from their name, image, and likeness (NIL) will be the… Read more.
NCAA treated Bush like a servant In 2010, the NCAA made a public show of stripping Reggie Bush of his Heisman Trophy. They condemned him for accepting so-called illegal benefits, claiming that brought the amateur status of college sports into disrepute. Mind you, Bush merely accepted petty cash from boosters to help his poor family make ends meet. Yet,… Read more.
College players accepting perks is as common as restaurant servers taking tips. Indeed, it’s an open secret that “boosters” ply football players with perks. And they do this for one simple, unvarnished reason: to boost players’ performance on the field. Yet the NCAA never fails to feign moral outrage anew every time this open secret makes news. Such was… Read more.
