Why can’t college athletes gain the same rights as Olympians?
7 min readFeb 21, 2019
NCAA officials continue to mock the idea of fairness
The TV companies pays billion$ to the NCAA and colleges. The shoe businesses pays million$. The video game firms, million$.
The jersey makers and marketers, ticket sellers, venues, hotels, restaurants, realtors, government, and others all have their stakes in what is supposed to be an amateur enterprise.
Then Wednesday happens. A shoe forced on a kid who is forced to play for little more than room and board explodes in a…