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  1. the national interest
    College Sports Is a Failed Experiment in Anarcho-capitalismThe NCAA has all the money and none of the sense.
    By Jonathan Chait
  2. sports
    Tuberville and Manchin Offer to Fix the College-Sports Money MessFederal legislation on player compensation is needed. But maybe the effort should be led by lawmakers who aren’t so closely aligned with coaches.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. the national interest
    Socialize College SportsUniversities need to take their athletics back from the free market.
    By Jonathan Chait
  4. games
    College Football Is the Wild West NowAs a new season kicks off, it’s clear that the Supreme Court–weakened NCAA isn’t really in charge anymore.
    By Will Leitch
  5. games
    The NCAA Looks Like a Dead Organization WalkingJustice Brett Kavanaugh, of all people, has stuck a dagger into college sports’ unjust business model.
    By Will Leitch
  6. games
    States Are Starting to Fix the NCAA — For the Wrong ReasonsCompetition, not morality, is driving legislation that allows college athletes to make some money.
    By Will Leitch
  7. games
    How Sports Leagues Are Gearing Up for Another Weird SeasonEveryone is hoping for vaccine-enabled normalcy in 2021, but some sports are better positioned than others to wait things out.
    By Will Leitch
  8. games
    The Varsity Blues Scam Shows Paying Athletes Is Cheaper Than Bribing CoachesWhat’s surprising about the college admissions scandal is the going price for college admissions.
    By Will Leitch
  9. How to Pay College Athletes Without Ruining NCAA SportsLess marketization, more protection for overworked athletes.
    By Jonathan Chait
  10. Everything You Need to Know About the FBI’s College Basketball InvestigationThe feds have exposed the bribery and corruption in the “dark underbelly of college basketball.”
    By Adam K. Raymond
  11. college sports
    UNH Is Spending a Big Donation From a Library Employee on Its Football StadiumBut don’t worry: University administrators are sure that, by the end of his life, he knew what football was.
    By Jesse Singal
  12. the national interest
    Women Soccer Players Deserve Equal Pay. So Do Female College Athletes.Joe Nocera only wants to pay the male athletes. Why’s that fair?
    By Jonathan Chait
  13. Joe Nocera on Why the NCAA Is Like EnronHis book Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA came out last month.
    By Gabriel Sherman
  14. the national interest
    To Save College Sports, Have Less Free Marketization, Not MoreJoe Nocera’s plan would make college sports more cruel. Here’s how to make it more fair.
    By Jonathan Chait
  15. college sports
    Football Players at Northwestern Barred From UnionizingThe National Labor Relations Board decided to keep the status quo intact. 
    By Jaime Fuller
  16. the sports section
    Leitch: Can College Sports Survive Collective Bargaining?College athletics very well might be unfixable; you might have to burn down the whole village.
    By Will Leitch
  17. How Unions Can Save College SportsNot a threat, but a salvation.
    By Jonathan Chait
  18. the national interest
    Markets Are Not the Solution to the NCAA’s ProblemsA reply to the cynics.
    By Jonathan Chait
  19. college sports
    Chait: Do We Want to Help College Athletes or Not?A response to a response.
    By Jonathan Chait
  20. college sports
    Fixing College Sports: Why Paying Student Athletes Won’t Work In the wake of the Penn State scandal and a vast treatise by Taylor Branch, the call to pay student sportsmen has reached new heights. But it’s not so much a plan as an expression of free-floating contempt for college sports.
    By Jonathan Chait