Branch, Taylor. “The Shame of College Sports.” The
Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 30 Aug. 2019, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/308643/.
The Shame of
College Sports discusses how universities are focused on their own financial agenda
and how they use student-athletes to gain millions a year. The National
Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has made college sports a multi-million-dollar
business and they do so by exploiting student-athletes. This has frustrated many
student-athletes and has brought many lawsuits against the NCAA. The NCAA is a
non-profit organization but they some how profit more than universities and the
actual people bringing in this money, the amateur. By recognizing student-athletes
as amateurs they cannot be paid for all their hard work and sacrifice.
The author Taylor Branch
is well known author and public speaker. He seems very knowledgeable and
respected so there is no reason to doubt his work. One term I picked is amateur,
a person who engages in a
pursuit, especially a sport, on an unpaid rather than a professional basis.
The second term is restitution rule, which permits the NCAA to punish a university who permits an athlete to play during a court-ordered preliminary injunction that later gets reversed or vacated. This means that if a court were to enjoin a student-athlete's suspension pending the outcome of a lawsuit, the university risks significant punishment if it allows the student-athlete to play during the injunction. The following are three quotes I picked. These quotes help with my
research paper because it shows different ways the NCAA continued to make rules
so that student-athletes could not profit in the way that they did.
“That money comes from a
combination of ticket sales, concession sales, merchandise, licensing fees, and
other sources—but the great bulk of it comes from television contracts.”
“the NCAA in 1948 enacted a “Sanity Code,” which was supposed
to prohibit all concealed and indirect benefits for college athletes; any money
for athletes was to be limited to transparent scholarships awarded solely on
financial need. Schools that violated this code would be expelled from NCAA
membership and thus exiled from competitive sports”
“Using
the “student-athlete” defense, colleges have compiled a string of victories in
liability cases.”
