The NCAA Will Never Fix Itself
The presidential candidate Cory Booker, a former Stanford athlete, thinks big-name college sports have gone awry—and he wants Congress to step in.
If anyone can understand what’s wrong with college sports—and why Congress should step in and help—it’s a former college athlete who’s now serving in the U.S. Senate. Long before he started running for the Democratic presidential nomination, or any public office at all, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey was a former high-school all-American who played tight end on the Stanford football team.
“I still have a shoulder injury,” Booker told me in an . Friends of his, he said, suffered knee and brain injuries. “You’re paying the medical bills, you know, five years out, six years out. When you have these chronic
