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Basketball Great Compares College Hoops to Slavery; ‘Journalist’ Agrees
newsbusters.org ^ | 3/19/2018 | Jay Maxson

Posted on 03/20/2018 8:08:43 AM PDT by rktman

“They [the NCAA] just got a contract from CBS (and TNT), $8.8 billion, and if you are making that, I think you have to share some revenue. You can’t expect people to continue to work for nothing on a false hope of, well this is about education, we are getting you an education, we will feed you. It sounds a little like 400 years ago, like slavery. Stay in your hut. Stay in that little house. We’ll give you some food. You do all of the work. All of it. And I am telling you that I will take care of you."

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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
In the 100m final Owens finished first, Metcalfe second, and Wykoff fourth. Debatable about replacing those three for the 4x100 relay final. Stoller should have been the fourth runner in the relay, which the US set a world record that lasted for 20 years.

What is disturbing is that Stoller and Glickman were the only two athletes on the US Olympic team that saw no action at all. Brundage, not Hitler, was responsible for that.

81 posted on 03/20/2018 9:56:14 AM PDT by kabar
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To: deport

Fees just keep going up. It is worse for private schools.


82 posted on 03/20/2018 9:57:48 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

Fees go up because there are plenty of foreign students willing to pay them.


83 posted on 03/20/2018 9:59:45 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: kabar

Brundage was a real POS.


84 posted on 03/20/2018 10:00:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Delta 21

nobody is forced to play basketball..


85 posted on 03/20/2018 10:01:49 AM PDT by cherry
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Jesse Owens Returns to Berlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soOm36ZzCwI


86 posted on 03/20/2018 10:02:50 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dead

besides tuition, our private university pays its college womens bb players $500 a month...I imagine the male players get much more.


87 posted on 03/20/2018 10:03:33 AM PDT by cherry
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To: rktman

Can you tell us who the”basketball great” is?


88 posted on 03/20/2018 10:06:30 AM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: rktman

Was this person forced to play college hoops?

Someone with a partial brain could have had a scholarship to study, instead it is wasted on dumb fools trying out for the NBA.


89 posted on 03/20/2018 10:06:35 AM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
athletes are not getting screwed....they are getting exactly what they signed up for...free education, room and board, monthly stipend, the opportunity to be the big guy on campus, lots of parties, and women around, and travel, and perhaps a chance at making a lot of money in sports after college...

the NCAA is totally corrupt....they've made college sports into a business...no question about that...

the NFL/NBA should form post HS leagues, so the guys that just want to play and go do it for a paycheck....

let college players play the games, like it should b...

90 posted on 03/20/2018 10:10:45 AM PDT by cherry
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To: dfwgator

If they were paid it would put the NBA out of business. If they were paid there would be no need to give them an education for free. How about they pay for school like others do and then give them a small wage to exist on campus.

Wanting to be in the NBA should mean a person has to invest something for the chance to win an NBA slot.


91 posted on 03/20/2018 10:12:03 AM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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The collegiate sports system at the top is a scam. These kids get a free education, but the athletics departments own them.

At the lower levels there is less scholarship money...but there is more of a focus on academics and graduation.

The NCAA is bureaucratic and top heavy. Having had to work under their rules every postseason since 1999, I can tell you that there is little money to be made from those games.


92 posted on 03/20/2018 10:12:52 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: dforest

The NBA should do what the soccer clubs do. Set up academies to develop talent and have them progress through the various youth leagues until they’re ready for the Big Club.


93 posted on 03/20/2018 10:14:18 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Totally agree. They won’t do it though!


94 posted on 03/20/2018 10:18:16 AM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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To: dforest

More and more NBA players are products of European Basketball academies.

Many people don’t realize that big soccer organizations like FC Barcelona, also have a basketball team.


95 posted on 03/20/2018 10:23:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: rktman
“It sounds like my life in Mississippi. And I will just use myself as an example. We picked all of the cotton, from sunup to sundown. We did all of the work that had to be done on the farm, chopping cotton, planting cotton, tilling the soil — all of this work. We were making so little money that we could not survive. We would go to the big boss and say, ‘Hey can we borrow $50 so we can celebrate Christmas?’ The birth of our Lord and Savior. Then we had to pay that $50 back all year long. We were relegated to that same system, we couldn’t leave, we couldn’t leave that farm."

...the cotton picker was invented over a period of years beginning in the late 1920s by John Daniel Rust... wikipedia...

It's been almost a hundred years since cotton picking machines were invented. This basketball player must be very, very, very old... or he's doing a victim pity party... Imagine some Irishman saying how he had lived in Ireland and he knows what it's like to see everyone around you starving to death because of the failed potato crop. I mean come on, give us a break.

96 posted on 03/20/2018 10:25:20 AM PDT by GOPJ (How many liberal groups did the FBI investigated versus conservative groups? Agent Lois Lerner?)
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To: dfwgator

And more importantly the ease of getting federal loans allows colleges to keep raising tuition. There are about 900,000 foreign students in the US.


97 posted on 03/20/2018 10:25:42 AM PDT by kabar
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To: rktman

College hoops = Slavery? Then end it.


98 posted on 03/20/2018 10:30:08 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: tomkat

That is the why they were playing in the NIT...


99 posted on 03/20/2018 10:31:31 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: kabar

But you still can’t go directly from HS to the D League. It was set up for players who are drafted, by an NBA team out of college, but are found to not cut the mustard, but who may have enough talent if given some time.


100 posted on 03/20/2018 10:39:22 AM PDT by redangus (actually hit her?)
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