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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?
Nathan Kalman-Lamb is a lecturing fellow at Duke University, where he teaches on labor, race, and sport. He is the author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport and co-author of Out of Left Field: Social Inequality and Sports.
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.”