Saturday, July 04, 2009
'Profiting off of amateur athletes'
The NCAA has found yet another way to exploit student athletes. ... Hub Blog realized the NCAA had way too much money when, of all things, I noticed the parquet floor at the Garden had been replaced during the recent NCAA basketball tournament with a special portable court. ... Multibillion-dollar TV contracts. Lucrative player-jersey rights. Now video games with images of individual players. ... Well, it does cost money to run a sports entertainment empire with hundreds of employees and a 140,000-square-foot headquarters.
The NCAA has found yet another way to exploit student athletes. ... Hub Blog realized the NCAA had way too much money when, of all things, I noticed the parquet floor at the Garden had been replaced during the recent NCAA basketball tournament with a special portable court. ... Multibillion-dollar TV contracts. Lucrative player-jersey rights. Now video games with images of individual players. ... Well, it does cost money to run a sports entertainment empire with hundreds of employees and a 140,000-square-foot headquarters.
