Pressure is mounting on the NCAA.
The governing body overseeing amateur sports is facing legal threats -- some overlapping, some contradictory -- to its status quo on several fronts. On Monday, the National Labor Relations Board told players on the Dartmouth men's basketball team that they fit the definition of a university employee. The following day, a federal judge wrote that the Tennessee attorney general is "likely to succeed on the merits" of a claim that the NCAA can't legally punish players or their schools for negotiating name, image and likeness deals during their recruiting process. The NCAA is already fighting existing court cases and lobbying Congress for national rules, and while there's no clear, singular knockout punch on the horizon, it's clear walls are closing in on what remains of amateurism in college sports.
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The governing body overseeing amateur sports is facing legal threats -- some overlapping, some contradictory -- to its status quo on several fronts. On Monday, the National Labor Relations Board told players on the Dartmouth men's basketball team that they fit the definition of a university employee. The following day, a federal judge wrote that the Tennessee attorney general is "likely to succeed on the merits" of a claim that the NCAA can't legally punish players or their schools for negotiating name, image and likeness deals during their recruiting process. The NCAA is already fighting existing court cases and lobbying Congress for national rules, and while there's no clear, singular knockout punch on the horizon, it's clear walls are closing in on what remains of amateurism in college sports.
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