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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/1/2020
  

  John Thompson Led Black America’s Basketball Team

  Today's racial justice activism by prominent Black athletes has roots in the influence of the late Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/11/2020
  

  Black College Athletes are Rising up Against the Exploitative System they Labor In

  by Amira Rose Davis

  While athletes’ collegiate activism in the 1960s and 1970s produced limited wins, today’s movement echoes many of the still-unanswered demands of that time.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/28/2020
  

  Playing College Football in 2020 Would Continue to Devalue Black Lives

  by Eddie R. Cole

  In many ways, the disproportionate number of black student-athletes preparing for their football seasons have become the figurative lab mice as some college leaders assess the feasibility of in-person classes.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  6/23/2020
  

  Cancel the Fall College Football Season

  by Victoria L. Jackson

  For too long, instead of facilitating the intellectual advancement and economic empowerment of young Black men, college sports have helped make American universities another institution perpetuating the undervaluing of Black lives.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/10/2020
  

  Ivy League Cancels Basketball Tournaments Amid Coronavirus Concerns

  The NCAA, which continues to prepare for its signature men’s and women’s tournaments, made clear that its recommendations have not changed, despite the Ivy League’s decision.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  1-12-18
  

  Sports Historian Explains Why She Wrote that the NCAA is the Modern Jim Crow

  Victoria Jackson’s claim appeared in an explosive op-ed for the Los Angeles Times.

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• A Brief History of College Cheating Scandals

  by Fatima Ahmed-Farouta

  Cheating and college sports go hand-in-hand. This is especially true in college football, with its extreme competitiveness and the potential to launch careers. Cheating scandals have embroiled most of the top colleges in the country for decades, and the cases run the gamut from cash payments to players, free (and illegal under NCAA rules) perks, academic fraud, financial aid fraud, and -- of course -- drugs, alcohol, and prostitutes. Here is a list of some of the most prominent and cringe-worthy scandals in the history of college sports:1) 1986: SMU gets the death penalty. In 1986, the ABC affiliate in Dallas revealed that the Southern Methodist University football program had been paying its players signing bonuses of up to $25,000. Further investigations by Dallas media unearthed apartments provided to players rent-free, and an NCAA investigation showed that thirteen players had been paid about $61,000 from a slush fund set up for that specific purpose. This practice had gone on for years, with the complicity of both coaches and top school officials.

• SOURCE: CS Monitor
  3-28-13
  

  Jonathan Zimmerman: Why I Love, But Also Hate, March Madness

  Jonathan Zimmerman is a professor of history and education at New York University. He is the author of “Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory” (Yale University Press).I’m a crazed basketball fan, so I love it when the NCAA tournament rolls around. But I’m also an educator, and so I hate myself for watching.That’s because college sports are – to put it bluntly – a plague on American higher education. They add a big-ticket item to our mounting costs, and they compromise our academic quality. And now we’ve got the numbers to prove it.Let’s start with costs. Colleges in the Football Bowl Subdivision – the most competitive of the Division I programs – spent an average of nearly $92,000 per athlete in 2010, according to a January study by the American Institutes for Research. For the student population at large, the average per capita spending was less than $14,000.I’ll spare you the math: These schools spend more than six times as much on athletes as they do on students generally....

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• SOURCE: Special to HNN
  3-26-13
  

  Luther Spoehr: Review of Albert J. Figone's "Cheating the Spread: Gamblers, Point Shavers, and Game Fixers in College Football and Basketball" (University of Illinois Press, 2012)

  Luther Spoehr, an HNN book editor, co-teaches a course on the history of intercollegiate athletics at Brown University.“The race may not be to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,” the inimitable Damon Runyon observed, “but that’s the way to bet.” Unless, he might have added, the fix is in. And as Albert Figone demonstrates, the fix has been in many times in major college sports over the past seventy-five years or so. Figone’s research into “court records, newspaper articles, books, government documents, magazine articles, documents found in university archives, scholarly journals, and interviews” has produced a chronicle that is both impressive and depressing.