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March Madness Comes to Capitol Hill

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Two years ago, the NCAA changed their rules to allow college athletes to make money from their “name, image and likeness.” It was a stop-gap measure at best, and some folks even want to see athletes gain employee status. But, the NCAA has taken to Capitol Hill today to try to prevent just that.  


Guest: Dan Murphy, staff writer at ESPN and author of Start By Believing.


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0:00.0

If you've been watching college basketball this month, you know that it has been a season

0:10.1

of underdogs.

0:14.6

There was that game where a 16th seed fairly Dickinson beat top ranked Purdue.

0:29.0

In this past weekend, the university of Miami was down by double digits before they overtook

0:43.1

the Texas Longhorns anyway.

0:50.6

On Saturday, the final four will battle it out.

0:57.8

So Dan, tell me like how mad is March Madness this year.

1:04.2

This year is one of the more unique tournaments we've ever seen.

1:10.0

Dan Murphy is a reporter at ESPN.

1:12.6

Yeah, I heard it described as the final four nobody could have expected.

1:16.6

Like literally no one's brackets were right?

1:19.0

Is that right?

1:20.0

I think that's probably fair to say.

1:21.9

My mind are certainly a disaster and have been for a while now.

1:26.4

The question I had for Dan was how much of this craziness has to do with money.

1:32.3

Two years back, new rules for college athletes rolled out giving them a chance to endorse

1:36.8

products and collect fees for doing so.

1:40.0

If you watch enough sports, you already know how this rule is changing the game.

1:51.3

Groups players are endorsing crocs.

1:53.6

You can buy potato chips with college athletes stamped on the side.

1:57.6

A deodorant brand is recruiting amateur basketball stars.

2:01.4

Basically, if you can sell it, there is a March Madness tie-in.

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