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Newton scandal shows game stays same - College Football - Rivals.com

By Andis Kaulins

In our opinion, Dan Wetzel at Yahoo Sports Rivals.com writes some of the best sports commentaries, and this one is a really good one. Read Newton scandal shows game stays same - College Football - Rivals.com. It is time that anachronistic and outdated ideas about "amateurism" be locked up in some drawer in the back stacks of the library, and that Congress and the NCAA draft an "amateur" law that provides some sensible leeway for players and all the other small fish involved in the "big business" of college football and all other so-called "amateur" sports which no longer are as in "the good old days" before the commercialization of sports.

As Weztel writes:

"This is the real business of college football and only the most naive inside the sport even pretend that it is not.

It?s happening nearly everywhere with nearly everyone because no amount of NCAA legislation can stop the wheels of capitalism....

In the end this is the same old story. College football?s power brokers write a bunch of lip-service rules in an effort to maintain the sports? ?amateurism? so they can continue to beat federal, state and local taxes....

[T]his is the confusing world the players operate in. Everyone?s making money but them. Everyone?s offering money to them. Yet if word breaks that anyone anywhere near them took any money, it?s their reputation that gets trampled."

Read the whole thing here.

Full post as published by LawPundit on November 05, 2010 (boomark / email).