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October 11th, 2014 - 12:54 pm § in Jews, Misc.

JEWISH PRIDE IN THE NBA!

Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Amar’e Stoudemire’s Wife — He Might Play for Israeli Team … Might Get Bar Mitzvah – Watch More Celebrity Videos or Subscribe[...]

October 9th, 2014 - 5:48 pm § in America, Misc., Politics, The Ave Scene

Big Ten is a step ahead

  “The Big Ten conference announced Wednesday that all of its institutions will grant athletic scholarships for the entire term of an athlete’s enrollment, and allow some athletes who leave school to return and finish their degrees on scholarship.” Here is a link to Adam Rittenber[...]

September 20th, 2014 - 3:06 am § in Uncategorized

Why the NFL has a problem

Society bloomed with gentler personalities and more feminine faces Modern humans appear in the fossil record about 200,000 years ago, but it was only about 50,000 years ago that making art and advanced tools became widespread. A new study appearing Aug. 1 in the journal Current Anthropology finds [...]

May 21st, 2014 - 5:06 pm § in Misc.

BREAKING NEWS: Unions Organize “Student” Athletes

Public Worker Union in NC to Allow Student Athletes to Join as State Employees Two months after a federal labor official ruled that football players at Northwestern could create the nation’s first union of college athletes, a North Carolina union for public workers will allow scholarship stude[...]

March 31st, 2014 - 1:30 pm § in Misc.

Stanford Warns Staff About Comments on Union For Atheletes

Stanford Warns All Employees to Send Inquiries About Player-Union Talk to university Spokesman. Following the ruling last week that football players at Northwestern University could organize, Brad Wolverton of The Chronicle of Higher Education called a handful of private colleges to see how they we[...]

December 8th, 2013 - 12:55 pm § in Hypocrisy, The Ave Scene

Why do we call them “student atheletes?”

Esteemed Colleagues, If we wish to begin to change the UW’s climate toward our students who are athletes (and I believe that we should), we should stop calling them “student-athletes.”  “Student-athlete” is a term created by the NCAA lawyers in the 1950s in order to av[...]