Are College Athletes About to Get Paid?
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🗓️ 18 September 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A star college athlete can help rake in millions for the schools they attend but never see a cent for themselves because of existing NCAA rules. California lawmakers just passed a bill that would allow collegiate athletes to profit off of their name, likeness and image in a step to rectify the discrepancy. The Fair Pay for Play Act is just a piece of the larger conversation about paying college athletes. Is the NCAA being pulled closer to paying its athletes?
Guest: Bomani Jones, Co-Host of ESPN’s High Noon and host of The Right Time with Bomani Jones
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| 0:00.0 | It's April 7th, 2014, Arlington, Texas. |
| 0:08.0 | Spectacular performance by the Huskies. |
| 0:12.0 | March Madness is just about to end. |
| 0:15.1 | Napier, wow. |
| 0:16.6 | He is one of the best you'll see in college basketball. |
| 0:21.3 | The 2014 National Championship game, Yukon wins the championship, which, by the way, none of us expected to happen. |
| 0:27.6 | Like, it was a pretty big surprise that that team managed to win the national championship. |
| 0:31.7 | ESPN's Bomani Jones can still remember the Cinderella victory Yukon pulled off that year. |
| 0:37.6 | They were as unexpected a national champion as I can think of off the top of my head. |
| 0:42.2 | But the reason Bommani still thinks about this game, |
| 0:45.6 | it isn't because of anything that happened on the court that night. |
| 0:48.9 | Instead, it's because of what happened afterwards. |
| 0:54.3 | Honestly, hey, I want to get everybody's attention right quick. |
| 0:58.9 | That's when an announcer put a microphone in front of a player named Shabazz Napier. |
| 1:03.5 | And you can tell that Napier had something that he had planned to say, |
| 1:06.8 | and he said that we are the hungry huskies. |
| 1:12.7 | But the hunger was... and he said that we are the hungry huskies. Ladies and gentlemen, you're looking at the hungry huskies. |
| 1:13.4 | This is what happens. |
| 1:16.9 | But the hunger was not simply in their desire to win a championship. |
| 1:19.0 | He meant that we are literally hungry. |
| 1:20.9 | He talked about the nights that those guys go, |
| 1:24.2 | where they, you know, hungry at night and don't have anything to eat. |
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