From the NC NewsObserver here. They got the records through a public records request. I wonder how much Kevin Reed would charge for a similar request to UO. It seems like, despite his well-paid advisors, Schill simply got outmaneuvered: Ramogi Huma, executive director of the National Collegiate Players Association, said Schill’s…
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In the NYT here. Similar legislation has already been introduced in a few other states: Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed into law a plan to allow college athletes to strike endorsement deals, intensifying the legal and political clashes that could ultimately transform the economics of college sports. The governor’s…
An excellent article by reporter Brady Lim, read it all here. A few snippets: If passed, the bill would allow student-athletes at California’s 24 colleges and universities to be paid for “the use of their name, image and likeness.” In other words, student-athletes at these schools would be allowed to…
The NYT reports the FBI will hold a press conference today: A second indictment charges five people with paying high school athletes or their families to attend particular universities. Those indicted include James Gatto, identified as the head of global sports marketing, basketball for “Company-1.” Though it is not named,…
Oh good, another college-athlete sues the NCAA cartel. Docket here, complaint here: Blurb from BG&S law firm here: DAWSON V. NCAA AND PAC-12 CONFERENCE: ALLEGED VIOLATIONS OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT Lamar Dawson (“Dawson”), a former University of Southern California student-athlete, filed suit against the NCAA and Pac-12 Conference. In…
Too bad, because they sure need one to deal with the NCAA’s corrupt hiring cartel. Looks to me like a union of *all* NCAA BCS players might still be OK. USAToday has the report, here: The decision comes as surprise, after NLRB regional director Peter Sung Ohr from March 2014 wrote…
Wow, that’s almost as much as Commissioner Larry Scott makes every 4 hours. Former reporter Rob Moseley has the Duck press release here. In another demonstration of the NCAA’s prime directive that no black man should make money off college sports, it looks like almost none of this money goes to the revenue…
From Ryan Thorburg in the RG, here: Helfrich would like to see more elite prospects on campus for summer camps, but last month he said Oregon is not going to pay large sums of money to high school coaches just to attract talent. “We didn’t get some kids on campus…
8/15/2014: Ducks will finally pay for player’s insurance. It’s amazing what can change when the judge rules you’ve been running an illegal cartel. Now it turns out the NCAA was never against this, honest. UO PR flack Rob Moseley has the spin, here.
7/3/2011: Ever wonder what happens to college football players who suffer career ending injuries? They don”t get workmen’s compensation, because they are “student-athletes”, not employees. Very clever.
However, the NCAA will *lend* “student-athletes” money to buy their own insurance. I know, and you thought the NCAA was a heartless cartel. Read on, friend:
“The impetus behind it was really to keep student-athletes and their eligibility safe from unscrupulous agents,” said Juanita Sheely, the NCAA’s associate director for travel and insurance. “One of the ways they would entice them is: ‘I will get you this insurance coverage if you sign with me.’
10/27/2013: The Chronicle has the details. The plan is to make more sports part of the entry price to a new top-level football division, thereby diverting the new media money to athletics before the academic side gets it and spends it on the universities’ academic mission.
7/17/2013: Jeff Wright has the story in the RG. 6 hours a day practice time. I always feel for these guys, must be tough getting in study time too, and he’s an econ major. But at least they get paid well for their work. Oh wait, this is for playing…
6/3/2013: Excellent story by Brad Wolverton in the Chronicle on life at the bottom of a winner-takes-all competition.
4/14/2013. Six minutes of satire that captures it all: This South Park episode is pretty wicked too. In other news NCAA Director of Enforcement Dave Didion is bailing for a job at Auburn – the latest in a string of departures or firings. Here’s an email that Mike Glazier, the lawyer…
4/1/2013: From Sports Illustrated: The case, filed by former UCLA basketball star O’Bannon in 2009 and eventually expanded to include high-profile co-plaintiffs like Oscar Robertson and Bill Russell, initially focused solely on the use of former athletes’ likeness in products such as EA Sports’ NCAA video games, for which the…
Joe Nocera of the NYT on the corrupting influence of big-time college sports money. The occasion?: The annual IMG Intercollegiate Athletics Forum, held last week in Midtown Manhattan, is the kind of meeting where football games are routinely described as “product,” television networks are “distribution channels,” and rooting for State U. is an…