Category : Leadership

Earlier today, Representatives Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio) and Emanuel Cleaver (D-Missouri) reintroduced their Student Athlete Level Playing Field Act, which they claim will ensure that college athletes have the opportunity to monetize their name, image, and likeness. However, this proposed bill seems to do more to protect NCAA interests than those of college athletes. Indeed, the bill potentially may harm the long-term interests of college athletes in at least four separate ways. First, Representatives Gonzalez and Cleaver’s proposed bill includes language that implies a college athlete would not be considered an employee under federal law. This language is troubling because, readmore

I first visited Old Trafford at the age of seven, when my father took me to see Manchester United play a third round FA Cup tie. On the way there he told me the story of Duncan Edwards and the tragedy of the Munich Air Disaster, of manager Matt Busby battling for his life to then take his Busby Babes to domestic and European glory. Despite a bitterly cold January afternoon, the atmosphere in the floodlit ground was unforgettable, and I was kept warm by the red white and black scarf my grandmother had knitted at record speed. Though I readmore