No-one’s proposing that colleges should be required to pay players (though I suspect that most D2 colleges could afford minimum wage, putting the players on the same level as the servers in the canteen), but that some should be allowed to. As soon as Alabama and Georgia and Florida and Oregon and Michigan are allowed…

And college athletes are worse paid. Even most pro athletes don’t make Kardashian money.

You want an amateur who can commit 50 hours a week out of love? Better be a rich one.

If they were receiving an education in football - ending up with a degree overtly in Football Studies - as part of earning a job in professional football (ie in the NFL) then we would, rightly, criticise the universities for graduating far too many Football Studies students for the number of jobs available and call…

Is Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario still the only player with a career winning record over Serena? Other than a couple of players with 1-0 records, she was last time I checked, but the WTA’s website is even worse than it ever was.

Marianne Vos. Has a better record than Merckx already and she’s only halfway through her career.

Following the opposite logic, why not say that only players that started can pitch? If you want a relief pitcher, put them in left field for the first six innings.

In India, the families that did this were put into separate castes, and that’s how the Untouchable castes started.

The rich Romans had a sponge-on-a-stick in their toilets for that purposes.

OK.

Top ones, couple of million dollars a year. Plus endorsements.

It’s slightly simpler than baseball.

Aren’t they all dead, though, and unable to enjoy it?

John Quincy Adams served 18 years in the House of Representatives after his presidency, with considerably more distinction than he served as President..

As a replacement for Scalia.

Bet you they get to option B eventually - but just yank the whole lot first, and then get back to something sane when they’ve had time to look at every one carefully and in context.

Treason isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Depends who you’re betraying. Claus von Staffenberg was a traitor, but in the best possible cause.

There are lots of seventh-tier teams in England with over a hundred years of history, never mind the top-tier teams.

I’d be surprised to find a clean one from 1978 on (when Havelange took over). If the USA was prepared to bribe for the 2002 Olympics , then its silly to be sure they were clean for the 1994 world cup.

Guardian style is that initialisms pronounced as their component letters are all-caps, acronyms pronounced as a word are treated as a regular word, so initial caps if a proper noun, and no caps at all for words like laser.