Andrew Cooper
@runandrewcooper
Former college athlete @WSU & @UCBerkeley.
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13-01-2013 19:45:53
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Andrew Cooper of @ucaa_one told us that many athletes “have no idea that the NCAA invented the term ‘student-athlete’ nearly 70 years ago to avoid paying workers’ compensation and how the NCAA leverages it to justify their tax-evasion scheme.” theguardian.com/sport/2021/dec…
The NCAA claimed it used the term 'student-athlete' 44 times in its new constitution because that's what athletes want to be called. So, for The Guardian, we talked to more than a dozen to see if they agreed. "The term could not be further from the truth." theguardian.com/sport/2021/dec…
It’s wild how Kirk Herbstreit started the week by saying players don’t love football and ended it by saying they should unionize as employees.
since we're talking about wharton I would like to share some of my experiences there as a low-income undergrad. so at penn, there are more students in the top 0.1% income bracket than in the bottom 20%. only about 3% of the student body are from the bottom 20%— I was one of them
With permission to post this from her, this was sent by the UCLA Athletic Director to Mia Fishell in response to her speaking up about the racist incident with UCLA Gymnastics. I find it extremely inappropriate that an AD is trying to silence her for speaking up. UCLA Athletics