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August 17, 2015
College athlete unionization is dead. For now
In a surprising reversal, the national labor board overturns the unions decision.
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May 10, 2015
Ex-Illinois player alleges abuse, calls for unions
Simon Cvijanovic made a call to unionize college athletes after making allegations that Illinois head coach Tim Beckman abused him and teammates.
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March 23, 2015
Obama's 4 concerns with the NCAA
The president had some things to say on how the NCAA can better take care of athletes.
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March 2, 2015
SEC not a fan of freshman ineligibility
The other four power conferences are interested in the idea of bringing back the pre-1972 ban.
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February 20, 2015
This big NCAA debate is premature at best
Why try a new solution before the current attempt at a solution even takes effect?
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February 19, 2015
Let's take freshman ineligibility to its extreme
First-year college football and basketball players should focus more on academics? OK. Let's apply that rule to everybody else too.
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February 14, 2015
Freshmen ineligibility could be coming to hoops
Is college basketball really set to turn back the clock on freshmen?
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February 6, 2015
NCAA won't fix this awful coaching rule
The NCAA has too much of a legal stake in the matter.
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January 17, 2015
The 4 things to know about the new NCAA
The governing body is tweaking its rules to give more power to the five big conferences, but outside forces might still do more to change college sports.
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December 17, 2014
WVU AD leaving for NCAA reform job
Guess he'll probably leave the College Football Playoff selection committee too.
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October 23, 2014
Panelist disagree whether to pay NCAA athletes
College sports and the NCAA need fixing, the Big 12 panel agreed, but finding a solution fair to non-marquee sports remains a difficult sticking point.
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July 22, 2014
60 percent of incoming players want unions
Whether unionization takes hold at Northwestern in 2014 or not, younger players are already thinking about the issue.
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July 10, 2014
The NCAA has even more to fix than you think
A former college athlete's first-hand perspective on Wednesday's NCAA Senate committee hearing, where the organization had no good answers for hard questions about how it oversees its variety of athletes.
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July 10, 2014
Which schools voted against 4-year scholarships?
Many schools didn't even support the option for four-year scholarships in 2012, much less making them mandatory.
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July 9, 2014
Athletes get degrees, but what does that mean?
The NCAA brags about giving athletes the opportunity to graduate, but it ignores the fact that many of those degrees are relatively worthless.
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July 9, 2014
Ranking: Where next for CFB unions?
Northwestern football players have the power to form a union, and other private schools are concerned the movement could be headed their way. So let's figure out the likeliest spots.
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June 23, 2014
5 corrections to Texas AD's NCAA defense
The NCAA won't stop facing lawsuits, so its defenders should work to construct better arguments.
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June 13, 2014
NCAA hires firm to lobby Congresss
The organization hopes lobbying Congress can help it keep from having to pay players.
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June 6, 2014
Worst college transfer idea ever
The University of Washington's president spitballs in an interview, thereby proposing a terrible "franchise player" idea.
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June 4, 2014
O'Leary: SEC sounds like Civil War secessionists
A college football legal threat is similar to the most tumultuous event in American history? Yep, sounds about right.
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May 30, 2014
Slive threatens Division 4 to push autonomy
Think of the SEC commissioner's comments as a negotiating tactic along the way to rule changes, not a sign of an actual NCAA breakup.
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May 15, 2014
Politics chart: Why CFB fans are anti-union
While many fans of all political stripes are surely uneasy with the mixing of labor and amateurism, the makeup of the sport's biggest fans could show that the battle lines go even deeper.
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May 14, 2014
What happens if O'Bannon beats the NCAA?
That big trial on the entirety of college athletics we've been talking about for four years? It's really happening. This summer. So what might be about to change?