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It Took Until 2020 Before the NCAA Gave Athletes Election Day Off. This Is What Voter Suppression Looks Like

School is Not Safe for Students - But of Course, It’s Safe for Athletes [UPDATED]The pandemic continues to expose the glaring dysfunction in our society. This time in college sports....

UConn Listens to Its Players - Announces It Will Call Off 2020 Football SeasonThis morning, the University of Connecticut announced it would cancel the 2020 football season. The decision makes UConn the first FBS school to cancel football....

Pac-12 Players Demand Safety and Equality - So WSU Sent Them Home

UPDATE: According to Spokesman Review’s Theo Lawson, multiple Washington State players who shared the #WeAreUnited hashtag in response to today’s Players’ Tribune article have been released for the season....

Practicing Players On College Campuses Reveal Hypocrisy of NCAA's 'Student' Athlete BS

Last Thursday, University of Arizona President Robert Robbins answered a hypothetical question. Because of the state’s dramatic COVID caseload, Robbins said he would not open on-campus classes for students if the semester started now. ...

Several Colleges Nix Sports Programs Due To Lack Of Funding Amidst Coronavirus

No one is safe from the economic fallout from the coronavirus, not least of all the nation’s cash-strapped college sports programs....

NCAA Punishes Cal Poly Basketball For Giving Student-Athletes Too Much Money For Textbooks

The NCAA sees itself as the moral authority on all things college sports, a belief that has been proven to be faulty many times over. In reality, it is just another corporate entity preoccupied with image and its own arcane laws that, often, if not exclusively, run at the expense of so-called studen...

The NCAA Is Gaslighting You

In last month’s antitrust case in Oakland challenging the artificial caps on athlete compensation, the NCAA’s defense included the restatement of an imaginary economic principle that is fundamental to its existence: College athletes shouldn’t make money, the NCAA argued, because if players were paid...