NCAA player Jim O’Fallon Not only does the NCAA prevent college players from getting paid for their labor or from use of their sports images even after they leave college, and keep them from hiring agents to represent their interests, it even prevents them from borrowing against their own future…
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9/1/2012: Ed O’Bannon has expanded the class action lawsuit against the NCAA, seeking a cut of the profits for the players. SI story: The rationale of O’Bannon to seek an expansion of his class derives from what he and his attorneys, Jon King and Michael Hausfeld, have learned from the…
7/22/2012: Word is NCAA Pres Mark Emmert and OSU’s Ed Ray – the head of the NCAA’s Exec Committte – are going to announce tomorrow that they will fine Penn State $30 to $60 million over the Paterno scandal. But who will fine the NCAA, the enforcers of the system…
In the ODE: … With EA in the midst of fighting a class-action lawsuit led by former Arizona State quarterback Sam Keller, they went out of their way to show the public – and the legal experts – that the speedster in University of Oregon’s backfield isn’t De’Anthony Thomas,though everyone…
Because, to paraphrase Dave Zirin of the Nation, at this point the NCAA doesn’t even have enough moral authority to credibly condemn child rape. 7/14/2012.
2/12/2012: At its heart the NCAA is a classic hiring cartel. College athletic departments agree among themselves to all pay the athletes a bare minimum, so that the bulk of the profits can be used for inflated salaries for the coaches, assistants, athletic directors, and of course the NCAA administrators.…
11/18/2011: “NCAA says it will examine how Penn State has handled scandal.” From the enablers on the NCAA Infractions Committee: *Eligible for reappointment Division Committee Positions Title Name & Institution Conference TermExpiration 0 Member Attorney John Black Independent SEP 2014* 0 Member Partner Roscoe Howard Andrews Kurth LLP Independent…
defamatory USA Today story on yesterday’s congressional hearing comparing them to the NCAA: “(The NCAA) is one of the most vicious, most ruthless organizations ever created by mankind,” (US Congressman from Illinois) Rush said. “I think you would compare the NCAA to Al Capone and to the mafia. “It’s a…
Pultitzer prize winning civil rights historian Taylor Branch, interviewed by Stephen Colbert on 10/26/2011 The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Taylor Branch www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive
10/28/2011:Former UO reporter Allie Grasgreen has the story in Insidehighered.com. It’s way too little for the big revenue football players, and arguably too much for the non-revenue players. Should cost the UO AD about $1,000,000. The real cost will be if the courts then decide this makes the player’s employees…
10/27/2011: UCLA. Kentucky. Purdue. Georgia Tech. Arizona.
about the NCAA? Here’s what Coach Chip Kelly says about the proposals to give athletes $2,000 out of the NCAA’s $788 million in new TV revenue: “Obviously there kids that come to college who are underprivileged and deserve the full cost of attendance but there are also kids who are…
10/26/2011: Reports are trickling out of LA that athletes have begun to rebel against the NCAA cartel. AP story here, Yahoo sports report here, WaPo story here says NCAA will ignore the players. National College Players Association report here: UCLA football player Jeff Locke, who circulated the petition among his…
10/24/2011: A bit more on the $2000 raise proposed for NCAA athletes, in the NYT story here: Personally, I can’t decide which quote is more offensive – Mark Emmert, who is probably pulling down $1.5 million as NCAA President, saying “I’ve heard a lot of people say, ‘Well, you want…