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Oregon legislature helps the NCAA cartel keep screws on college athletes

This lousy bit of legislation has its 3rd reading in the Oregon Senate today. NYT financial columnist Joe Nocera has the background here on why 18-year-old players ought to be able to contract with sports agents to help them make career decisions, and negotiate with the athletic directors and coaches who will…

State to hit universities with $383K cultural competency mandate

That’s enough money to give 60 low-income students full-tuition scholarships for a year, by topping off their Pell grants. But instead our Legislature wants us to give it to administrators, to write “cultural competency” plans. HB 2864 is here: Who could possibly be opposed to spending other people’s money to preserve…

$600K a year and Rob Mullens can’t even give UO a clean volleyball program?

Perhaps he’s spending his time on Duck sports that pay him a bonus for “competing at the highest level of excellence.” Reporter Kenny Jacoby has the latest Duck athletic scandal in the Emerald, here: Read the story for the really disturbing quotes, and a link to the courageous letter from…