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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.
MAGA Republicans are so obsessed with the “feminization” of America that they’re passing laws to control women in every aspect of their lives. Just yesterday, their Republican-controlled Supreme Court upheld laws gutting Title IX provisions that protect women from discrimination in schools. Trump and the White Christian nationalists behind Project 2025 for America believe women… Read more.
Colleges treat female athletes as second-class citizens, especially compared with their male counterparts. And one can hardly blame most female athletes for accepting it. After all, even the highly successful and celebrated women’s USA soccer team has been waging a decades-long battle for equal treatment in this respect, to no avail. Sedona Prince’s Viral Moment… Read more.
Yesterday was the final day of competition in this sport. But my only interest stems from the equal rights campaign the IOC forced women ski jumpers to wage just to compete. The IOC argued ski jumping was simply too dangerous. The female jumpers repeatedly found themselves responding to the idea that jumping would injure their… Read more.
