It has become awash in cash for everyone except the players, whose blood, sweat and tears produce the product so passionately consumed by the public. The so-called student-athletes — who, in the words of former All-American basketball star Laron Profit, are really"" — act as essential workers on campus. They risk injury, concussions and now infection from Covid-19, all to keep the reservoirs of money in constant flow.
It has become awash in cash for everyone except the players, whose blood, sweat and tears produce the product so passionately consumed by the public. It's becoming harder to insist that it's a coincidence that the two sports that utterly depend on Black labor — basketball and football — are also the only two sports that don't have robust minor-league pipelines to the pros but instead have minor leagues funneled through higher education built upon unpaid labor.
EdgeofSports Daily nice
EdgeofSports Daily Yup! Pay the people who work for you!!
EdgeofSports Free labor? They get a college education worth a $1/4million, if they choose to participate. Not to mention, they are being groomed for the NFL, NBA. But of course, everything has to be about race these days
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EdgeofSports same with football
EdgeofSports In return the athletes mostly black get a free education, and some get professional playing opportunities, so it's not all one-sided.
EdgeofSports Holy fucking shit, you guys gotta make everything about race.
EdgeofSports Hmm.. I remember this story. Oh wait, wrong era.
EdgeofSports Sounds like exploitation
EdgeofSports We have a white supremacist epidemic in America & it's only going to get worse. Learn to ID the evil supremacist ideology that hides behind the blue wall of silence. Identify it. Uproot it! BlackLivesMatter blm NoOneUnscripted
EdgeofSports You people are obsessed with the pigmentation of people’s skin. There is one race: the human race.