Are College Sports a Sham?

Taylor Branch's article in The Atlantic Monthly argues that the NCAA denies the rights of athletes by treating them as students and not wage-earning, revenue-generating employees. Here is Frank DeFord's commentary. Is this the beginning of the end of the NCAA?

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