Month: April 2019
The Side Door
THE SIDE DOOR By Fred Klein, Drake Group Member, Arizona
A former Wall Street Journal sports columnist, see more opinions at Fred Klein on Sports (http://fredkleinonsports.blogspot.com/) It’s hard to shock people these days about the corrupt ties between sports and academe, but a case now playing out seems to be doing just that. This time […]
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: NCAA Student-Athletic Academic Reform
Real Sports investigates who is responsible for enabling student-athletes with elementary
Student Athletes and Academics Jason M Documentary
A documentary about college athletes and academics.
University Provosts Doing Nothing About Academic Corruption
Karl Idsvoog examines whether college and university provosts are examining the athletic department for evidence of academic fraud and finds that universities appear to be looking the other way, participating in cheating cover-ups, knowingly admitting athletes who do not meet posted academic standards for admission and placing athletes at academic risk in the least demanding … Read more
Richard Sherman: Student Athlete Education
Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman talks to the media about student athletes not having enough time to take advantage of their free education.
Silence of College Presidents and Media on Concussion Time Bomb
Karl Idsvoog examines media coverage of football concussions, concussion lawsuit risk and the cost of intercollegiate athletics. This video is an excerpt from the Presidential Football Project.
College Athletes Pay for Medical Bills
Ramogi Huma, President of the National Collegiate Players Association reveals that all coaches promise their recruits that all medical expenses will be covered but do not include any written promise to do so. http://medexpense.jmc.kent.edu/
Athletic Fees Add to Student Debt – No Transparency
Karl Idsvoog examined whether University billing records for tuition and fees showed how much students were paying to support the athletic program and found that students and parents don’t know the highest fee the student pays goes to fund athletics because it is so hard to find on most college and university web sites. Some … Read more
Missed Classes – 40-60 Hr. Work Weeks for College Athletes
https://vimeo.com/90675923 A computer assisted reporting class at Kent State University examined whether Mid-America Athletic Conference institutions kept records of classes missed due to athletics competition schedules and athletic injuries such as concussions. Requests for interviews with every athletic director in the MAC conference were declined.