NCAA Exploitation Word Association

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week we speak to DC-based sports journalist and editor Patrick Hruby about the rot that envelops the NCAA, more visible than ever this March. We do all this through the prism of word association, talking coaches, players, apparel companies, and the NCAA. We also have ‘Choice Words’ about Mike Trout’s mega contract. We then got ‘Just Stand Up’ and ‘Just Sit Down’ awards to Braden Holtby and Michigan State coach Tom Izzo, a brand new ‘Kaepernick Watch’, and more! Patrick Hruby Twitter: @patrick_hruby The NCAA says paying athletes hurts their education. That’s laughable. Zirin, Mike Trout’s Mega Deal and Baseball’s Economic Rot https://www.thenation.com/article/mike-trout-mlb-players-union-dave-zirin/ — http://www.edgeofsportspodcast.com/ | http://twitter.com/EdgeOfSportsPod | http://fb.com/edgeofsportspod | email us: [email protected] | Edge of Sports hotline: 401-426-3343 (EDGE) — Music: Eye Examination - Del the Funky Homosapien | Get Back - Ludacris | Only In My Dreas - Debbie Gibson | Introspective - Common | Coming of Age - Jay-Z Feat. Memphis Bleek | ’93 Til Infinity on - Souls of Mischief | Rhythm Roulette - Just Blaze | Westside Story - The Game | 2AM - Rasody Feat. Ab-Soul | The Wire Theme Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	or maybe just some booster wants to take them out to dinner, their team out to dinner a lot, or slip them a little bit of cash in an envelope to help them out for the semester or something. Like, why can't, why is there even a rule? Like, why does anyone think it's even okay? There's any kind of rule preventing that. If you or I, Dave, were to go give a chemistry student $5,000 an envelope and be like, hey, study hard this semester. this will help take care of your stuff.
0:01.9	We'd be looked at as Dave, were to go give a chemistry student $5,000 an envelope and be like, hey, study hard this
0:21.9	semester.
0:22.3	This will help take care of your stuff.
0:24.2	We'd be looked at as supporters of education.
0:34.2	Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast.
0:36.3	I'm Dave Ziron.
0:37.3	This week we talked to the sharpest knife in the box on all things NCAA, DC journalist and editor Patrick Ruby. He is the person you want to talk to when you're looking at the intersection of the NCAA and exploitation. We're going to talk to Patrick in just a moment.
0:56.8	I also have some choice words about Mike Trout and his new eye-popping mega contract
0:59.3	and what it means for baseball
1:01.5	and the neoliberalization of your favorite local team.
1:05.0	Also got Just Stand Up and Just Sit Your Ass Down Awards
1:08.1	and more, but first, let's go to patrick ruby okay so nc aa word association the first
1:20.8	words and thoughts that pile out of your head when i say march madness exploitation
1:26.5	oh and feel feel free to explicate for say March Madness. Exploitation.
1:32.2	Oh, and feel free to explicate further, if you like.
1:33.9	You don't have to hit me back with one word.
1:34.8	Well, okay.
1:36.2	So, yeah, no.
1:38.0	I mean, so why do I say that?
1:40.6	I mean, at this point, I think it's an argument that's pretty well known.
1:47.2	The NCAA itself, right, generates almost all of its money through March Madness of selling the TV rights to the NCAA tournament essentially generates
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