Google
“Northwestern University athletics” and it’s hard to miss the words “partner of
CBSSports.com” that come up. And we’re
supposed to think college athletics isn’t a job?
Right now, the
National Labor Relations Board is collecting testimony on the question of
whether or not Northwestern football players are bona fide employees of the
university. Yesterday, a school official
raised the possibility that any negotiated package between the school and a football
players’ union would place the university in violation of Title IX because what
boys get girls are supposed to get. And
that would be a bad thing how?
As of today, the
Northwestern softball team is in the middle of five straight weekends spent playing
out-of-state: Tempe; Baton Rouge; Cathedral City, CA; Fullerton; and
Clearwater. So, basically, Friday
through Sunday is spent playing softball with Thursday as a travel day. You just want to ask how the studies are
going.
Money to play a
college sport? I don’t know. But fairness demands expanded health care and
educational benefits. Play four years of
football, and the school will be there down the road if and when arthritis and/or
dementia sets in. Play x years of anything,
and you get those number of years in free tuition to finish your degree or
attend graduate school/med school/law school.
That works to me.
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