Or maybe Simmons told the editors to keep it quiet so they couldn’t be fired until they jumped ship, since they are at-will workers. No, no, that can’t be it. CLEARLY IT WAS A SIMMONS CONSPIRACY! NO ONE DENIES THIS!

He hired away some of his old hires, giving ESPN a pretext to close the whole thing? It’s a very flimsy criticism, imo, but there are tons of vehement Simmons haters out there grasping for straws. Instead of looking at this and coming to the logical conclusion, that ESPN is a terrible company, they try to spin at as…

“I have felt a great disturbance in the Internet. As though literally tens of people cried out in terror they would not get stories comparing basketball players to characters in The Force Awakens and were suddenly silenced”

Holly Anderson’s twitter feed was fairly fascinating this morning

Nah, the question is why do glorified administrators get to pocket billions of dollars on the backs of unpaid college athletes.

The “student-athlete” “volunteers” his skill and time (i.e. his labor) to an endeavor that generates millions of dollars to the school during the years in which he “volunteers.” The journalism student may, but may not, contribute donations post-graduation; he or she generates little to no revenue during his or her…

I think the issue is more about health care (which was a big part of what Kain was fighting for) and the fact the student makes no money of their likeness/signature where the college or NCAA can (the Ed O’Bannon case). Which is unfair.