(06-21-2021 10:01 AM)emu steve Wrote:  

(06-21-2021 09:48 AM)dansplaining Wrote:  

(06-21-2021 09:41 AM)emu steve Wrote:  This is DP after today's SCOTUS ruling:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/21/politics/...%3A37%3A34

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports...769539002/

"The case doesn’t decide whether students can be paid salaries. Instead, the ruling will help determine whether schools decide to offer athletes tens of thousands of dollars in education-related benefits for things such as computers, graduate scholarships, tutoring, study abroad and internships."

Not there yet - but the NCAA's power is eroding one court case / law at a time.

Okay, I'll give it two:

This quote from Cavanaugh just nukes the hell out of the NCAA:
“The NCAA couches its arguments for not paying student athletes in innocuous labels,” he writes. “But the labels cannot disguise the reality: The NCAA’s business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America. All of the restaurants in a region cannot come together to cut cooks’ wages on the theory that ‘customers prefer’ to eat food from low-paid cooks. Law firms cannot conspire to cabin lawyers’ salaries in the name of providing legal services out of a ‘love of the law.’ Hospitals cannot agree to cap nurses’ income in order to create a ‘purer’ form of helping the sick. News organizations cannot join forces to curtail pay to reporters to preserve a ‘tradition’ of public-minded journalism. Movie studios cannot collude to slash benefits to camera crews to kindle a ‘spirit of amateurism’ in Hollywood.”