student athletes
A new Georgia law could be the catalyst that changes the landscape of college football as we know it. Georgia Governor Brain Kemp recently signed a law that would allow college athletes to be paid.
NEW YORK (AP) — Attorneys are set to give their opening statements in the New York trial of three men charged with orchestrating payments to the families of top recruits to U.S. college basketball programs. Prosecutors will begin building their case Tuesday against former sports agent Christian Dawkins, former amateur league coach Merl Code and […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Young black men playing basketball and football for the country’s top college teams are graduating at lower rates than black male students at the same schools — despite having financial and academic support that removes common hurdles preventing many undergraduates from earning a degree, a new report has found. While 58 percent […]
It’s just human nature that extreme measures have to be taken just to make people in power do the right thing. We’ve seen it with civil rights, affirmative action and now, maybe, with college sports. When I first heard the news about college football players at Northwestern University wanting to unionize, I initially thought they […]