Bilas v NCAA

[Brutus1]

And yet, you can still buy jerseys at ESPN.com. You know, Bilas' employer.

Well, at least ESPN doesn't make or enforce the rules.......................(yet)

 

[scooter1369]

Well, at least ESPN doesn't make or enforce the rules.......................(yet)

They just decide through court of public opinion who it gets enforced on.

 

[MaliBuckeye]

I'm unaware of ESPN ever purporting to be either a nonprofit entity or "all about the student-athletes."

Very valid point. But they are a part of the "problem" nonetheless.

I love Jay Bilas and the attention that he brings to this issue. But it's also important to remember that his current role is due, in part, to the work of the student athletes that he believes are being exploited. It's also due, in part, to his participating in the very system that he's critical of in the way of an athletic grant in aid that provided for his Duke education.

 

[Dryden]

http://www.theonion.com/article/ncaa-investigating-god-giving-gifts-athletes-52198

NCAA Investigating God For Giving Gifts To Athletes

INDIANAPOLIS—Amid a new scandal that many are already calling the most damaging in the history of collegiate sports, the NCAA announced Tuesday that it has launched an investigation into God, Divine Creator of Heaven and Earth, for allegedly giving gifts to student-athletes.

Reports indicated that over the past several decades, the Almighty has provided hundreds of players from high-profile Division I football and basketball programs with abundant natural speed, strength, and agility, and both the universities and the players themselves are now said to be facing heavy sanctions and punishments.

“We take these allegations incredibly seriously and are doing everything in our power to determine the precise nature of God’s relationship with these college athletes,” said NCAA president Mark Emmert. “There is mounting evidence that the Lord—in blatant violation of NCAA rules and regulations—bestowed upon these players special and innate athletic abilities that other students never received.”

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[LostLassie]

http://www.theonion.com/article/ncaa-investigating-god-giving-gifts-athletes-52198

NCAA Investigating God For Giving Gifts To Athletes

INDIANAPOLIS—Amid a new scandal that many are already calling the most damaging in the history of collegiate sports, the NCAA announced Tuesday that it has launched an investigation into God, Divine Creator of Heaven and Earth, for allegedly giving gifts to student-athletes.

Reports indicated that over the past several decades, the Almighty has provided hundreds of players from high-profile Division I football and basketball programs with abundant natural speed, strength, and agility, and both the universities and the players themselves are now said to be facing heavy sanctions and punishments.

“We take these allegations incredibly seriously and are doing everything in our power to determine the precise nature of God’s relationship with these college athletes,” said NCAA president Mark Emmert. “There is mounting evidence that the Lord—in blatant violation of NCAA rules and regulations—bestowed upon these players special and innate athletic abilities that other students never received.”

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Is this a class action suit, by any chance? 'Cause I'd like to have been an Olympic ice skater.