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Should college athletes be paid?

Hello again, I'm Orman Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

a daily look at the issues Americans care about most. Who works 40 or 50 hours a week without getting a salary?

Student athletes, or athlete students, as more have been calling themselves.

Colleges say football and basketball players are amateurs who play for the love of the game.

But the game means big business for Division I institutions.

The holidays bring another season to bowl games with more of the same.

TV contracts are soaring into the billions.

Top-level coaches make millions.

But the players who generate audience ratings can't even get paid for selling their signatures to eager fans.

We'll ask if it's time for a change.

Today's Talking Point, a documentary on Egypt's repeated uprisings in Tahir Square.

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Aron Alney back with To the Point. There is big money in all those college football games, but none of it

trickles down to the people who bring in the millions of TV viewers. Is it time for the players to get a piece of the financial action? We'll talk about that. Today's talking point, a new documentary offers a street-level view of two years of rebellion in Cairo's Tahrir Square. First, this story. The slopes of Russia's Sochi Mountains will be covered with the world's best bobsledders, downhill racers, and ski jumpers during the February Winter Olympics.

Hovering over all of their heads will be drones.

They are just part of a package of security measures that are severe, even by standards of recent Olympics.

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