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A New Era – Outdated Amateurism and the NCAA (Part 1)

With an increasingly globalised world, the commercial potential of collegiate sport has exponentially grown. However, the NCAA’s “amateurism” business model is being increasingly attacked. Summer Journalism Fellow Joe Strong explains that the more that basketball players choose to forego the NCAA, the more that the quality of NCAA talent and therefore, its appeal to fans, will decrease. Many aspiring professional athletes want to be able to support their families earlier, and alternate pathways to circumvent the NCAA, like the NBA G-League’s “Professional Player Pathway,” are becoming increasingly popular.

Fair Play: Leveling the Paying Field in Soccer

As female soccer players receive growing recognition on a global level, pay disparity on the field is being subject to increasing scrutiny, and becoming evidently indefensible - both from a social and economic standpoint. Summer Journalism Fellow Millie Muroi explores pay structures in Australia vs. the US, economic arguments for and against equal pay, and costs vs. benefits of changing to an equal play, equal pay system.

The Status of NFL Contracts

In every single [football] game, there is a chance that it will be a players’ last. For this reason, it has become a source of great contention and frustration throughout the players’ union that not all NFL contracts are guaranteed.

Traveling to Your "Home" Games

Supporting a local sports team is an indelible part of the American psyche: there’s nothing like cheering on the home squad. Here, the idea of a ‘home game’ is given a much-needed reality check.

Maryland and McNair Keep College Football Problems on the Front Page

Between 2000 and 2016, 33 NCAA football players have died while training. Only 18% of those deaths were trauma related… Changing statistics like these will take time, and so too will confronting the limits of the human body and notions of the absolute necessity of success and winning,

Nike, Just Did That

The ad campaign that shocked the world: on September 3rd, 2018, Nike released the ad for who would be the new “face of Nike,” and to the nation’s surprise, Nike had chosen Colin Kaepernick.