Op-ed by Kevin B. Blackistone

Excerpt:

As Christian Collins, a Center for Law and Social Policy analyst in Washington, wrote three years ago about the racial economics of college sports: “From 2005 to 2019, Black college athletes across men’s and women’s basketball and men’s football in the largest five athletic conferences are projected to have lost between $17 [billion] and $21 billion in compensatory theft, or roughly $250,000 per athlete per year, if revenue sharing in collegiate athletics modeled that of professional sports leagues. College athletic programs are often complicit in the economic exploitation of underrepresented student populations.”

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