Sometimes they simply published things which Felt told them. When someone says “I witnessed “x” happening” that’s evidence, even when the someone is unnamed.

The person who wrote the words is Van Natta. If there is something in Van Natta’s track record which shows a willingness to fabricate then we should examine it. If not, then that needs to be clearly acknowleged, and not cloaked in a general attack on ESPN. I’ve already stated that it is possible that the former…

By the standard you seem to be implying, Woodward and Bernstein should have never published what Mark Felt gave them. An unnamed former Patriot coach making an allegation is a newsworthy fact.

Don Van Natta is not Chris Mortenson.

Look, either a guy with an excellent track record, Don Van Natta, is lying, or some former Patriot coaches and employees, who would have detailed knowledge of the matter, are lying. It is newsworthy that people who used to work within the organization are making these assertions. The one thing I thought should have…

If named sources are critical to quality investigative journalism, then the field of investigative journalism will need to largely go away. Does that mean that unnamed sources should be given unfiltered credibility? No, but the nature of the unnamed source, and the track record of the particular writer has to be…

The compensation of a scholorship was arrived at by the schools entering into collusive agreements under the umbrella of the NCAA, while the schools compete, via their conferences, to sell broadcast rights to the highest bidder. When the schools tried to enter into such agreements about 25 years ago, with regard to…

It doesn’t matter what they offered, it is illegal for them to enter into agreements with other economic entities, to limit what is offered, while all those economic entities form other alliances, and those alliance compete with each other to auction broadcast rights to the highest bidder. In the absence of a CBA…

Are you under the impression that “contribution” is a synonym for “crucial”? Look you implied something, that entertaining millions of people within a couple of hours, is not a contribution to society. The implication is false. If you want to debate about the aesthetic differences between athetic competion…

Virtualy reality technology in the NFL is stating to take hold, and if it advances, you may be able to take a 22 year old, drafted in May, and have him “play” 5 seasons worth of games before training camp ends in August, minus the concussions. Think of how much slower the learning process would be for pilots would…

Your school wasn’t auctioning broadcast rights t what you were doing at that school for billions of dollars, in alliance with other schools, while all the schools were entering into an agreement as to what they would offer you, to come to that school, and do something that would be broadcast. In the absence of a CBA…

The absence of a CBA renders that cap on compensation illegal. Hopefully, Floyd v NCCA, now being litigated, will recognize this plain fact of antitrust law.

It is really ignoarnt to claim that someone isn’t contributing to society when millions of people are being entertained by what they do.

Um, if somebody is obtaining revenue from behavior they instruct that somebody to engage in, that somebody is performing labor.

It is even more basic that this. It is illegal, under any honest view of antitrust law, for these schoold to enter into agreements which limit what is offered athetes, in the absence of a CBA which specifically allows it, as these schools compete with each other, via their conferences, to sell the broadcast rights to…

If Floyd v NCAA is, now being litigated, is decided with an intellectually honest application of antitrust law, buiding on the jurisprudence of the O’Bannon case, the plainly illegal nature of the behavior of these schools and conferences, under the umbrella of the NCAA, will be plainly recognized.

Look, college players are obviously performing labor, but given the NLRB can only regulate the practices at private schools like Northwestern, and not schools like Ohio State, as a practical matter it is hard for the NLRB to be the agent of change. The larger problem lies in the fact that the players are being denied…