We pay hundreds of dollars for season tickets. We buy their jerseys for $30 a pop. We subscribe to special cable channels to watch them play. And all this money goes ... to whom, exactly?
Original speech by Taylor Branch, delivered at the American Enterprise Institute. Taylor is the author of many fascinating books about the civil rights movement and a similarly fascinating Twitter account. For more background on the controversy surrounding pay for student athletes, read this from The Atlantic. And this from ESPN about Northwestern University athletes' historic unionization drive. Thumbnail image by user tamuc, used under Creative Commons license.
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