Jay,

You raise a bunch of good points. First off, yes, football players are way more fucked than basketball players. And I probably am selling short the overseas experience. Certainly there’s money there to be made and whether or not an athlete feels disappointment over not making the NBA is a case-by-case, individual thing…

First off, thanks for the kind words.

I’m not sure I can go back and change my central thesis, or at least your perception of it, but I think we’ve got two points of contention. One of them is over just how unwitting our participation in the NCAA machine really is. One could go so far as to suggest that the NCAA goes out of…

Empathy can’t begin until we stop denying athletes’ rights

Not “should they be paid?” but “why are they denied access to the market?”

Why the NCAA Is America’s Longest-Running Cartel

My Humble Opinionated Analysis: Sports

“The 400 is a man’s race.” I overheard spectators say as I lined up in the blocks of the fourth lane. It was my junior year and after months of training, it was time to run the 400 meter dash in under 50 seconds. I knew I could do it, I knew I would do it, and I…