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    Commentary: A fix for big-time college sports

    by Victoria Jackson, Los Angeles Times Jan 08, 2019 3 minutes

    If you've watched any NCAA football or basketball this holiday season, you've consumed the trademark commercial messaging celebrating "amateur student-athletes" whose talents on the court or playing field help them earn world-class university degrees and "go pro in something other than sports." The athletic scholarship in American higher education is a great deal, unique in the world.

    But football and basketball players in the top-ranked NCAA Division I programs are getting a bad shake. Their feats entertain us during the College Football Playoff and March Madness,

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