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Court offers mixed ruling on NCAA pay for college athletes

by brianburlage October 1, 2015

On Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that limiting compensation to the cost of attendance, in exchange for licensing of the players’ names and images, was sufficient under federal antitrust law. Under this ruling, the N.C.A.A. will be allowed to prevent universities from compensating their athletes beyond the cost of attendance. As college sports continue to generate millions of dollars in revenue through broadcasting and merchandising, some parties have advocated for greater financial payoff for athletes. However, as part of the ruling Wednesday, the 9th Circuit threw out a judge’s proposal from last year that […]

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by Shaun Manning October 17, 2012

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by Shaun Manning September 5, 2012

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NPR’s Only a Game chats with Brian Porto about “The Supreme Court and the NCAA”

by Shaun Manning February 22, 2012

Brian L. Porto, author of the recently-released The Supreme Court and the NCAA: The Case for Less Commercialism and More Due Process in College Sports, took to the radio this past weekend to discuss his new book with Only a Game, produced by Boston NPR affiliate 90.9 WBUR. Porto’s book, which addresses long-simmering concerns about the commercialization of college sports, became especially timely thanks to a series of articles by New York Times columnist Joe Nocera; University of Michigan President Emeritus James Duderstadt has also weighed in on the controversy. The Supreme Court and the NCAA examines two court cases […]

Duderstadt Weighs In as New York Times Debate Over College Sports Continues

by Shaun Manning January 23, 2012

Sunday’s New York Times featured an article titled “How Big-Time Sports Ate College Life,” which examines long-simmering issues of commercialization in college sports–a topic the paper recently reignited with two controversial opinion pieces by columnist Joe Nocera. This time, education writer Laura Pappano compared prestigious universities’ academic renown with those same universities’ famous football and basketball teams. “Ohio State boasts 17 members of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, three Nobel laureates, eight Pulitzer Prize winners, 35 Guggenheim Fellows and a MacArthur winner,” Pappano writes. “But sports rule.” She also discusses how the extraordinary popularity of sports leads to […]

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