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College athletes are still not being paid for playing sports, while coaches and staff can earn millions. How is that remotely fair?
Derek Silva is an assistant professor of criminology at King’s University College at Western University, where he researches and teaches on issues related to sport, punishment, racism, and harm. His co-edited forthcoming book, Sports, Power, and Crime: Toward a Critical Criminology of Sport, will be published next year.
College athletes are still not being paid for playing sports, while coaches and staff can earn millions. How is that remotely fair?
This was a sport stripped of its festive veneer, leaving the rough, unvarnished reality of brute labor without pay and endless reminders that “the NCAA can do whatever it wants.”