NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships

Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by brianTheDog on Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:17PM (#22561840)

Whoever came up with the term “student athlete” when talking about slaves in college is a genius!

I like to think if that term never existed then maybe society wouldn’t let universities exploit them for millions of dollars while paying them nothing.

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by bluedevil2k on Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:50PM (#22562172)

I see you removed your earlier racist comment about student athletes being slaves and decided to double down and write it again. So I’ll double down too - you should be banned for this comment.

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by Mountain_Skies on Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:31PM (#22561991)

The compensation model for college athletics is problematic but the entire system is voluntary. You diminish the evilness of slavery by trivializing it by equating it to college students playing a game of their own free will.

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by wolco on Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:37PM (#22562054)

If someone can make a profit from these games the players become slaves?

If they play the same game but no one makes money they are free?

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