The College Sports Rip Off

By R. Paul Stevens

The article discusses the thought provoking TV documentary " Schooled: The Price of College Sports" and the exploitation of athletes on whose backs the billion dollar college football and baseball industry is built. The real culprits in this racket are exposed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R. Paul Stevens
• Release date: Sep 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311397669

R. Paul Stevens

R. Paul Stevens is professor emeritus of marketplace theology and leadership at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, and a marketplace ministry mentor. He has worked as a carpenter and businessman, and served as the pastor of an inner-city church in Montreal. He has written many books and Bible studies, including Doing God's Business, Work Matters, Marriage Spirituality, The Other Six Days and Spiritual Gifts. He is coauthor (with Pete Hammond and Todd Svanoe) of The Marketplace Annotated Bibliography.

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I recently watched an excellent documentary "Schooled: The Price of College Sports". It tackles the issue of college athletes who are admitted on the strength of their athletic prowess to colleges across the USA. In return basically for a one year renewable contract (subject anyhow to performance on the field, though this rule appears to have been softened since the documentary was made) they get a scholarship worth the average annual academic fees of roughly $28000 p.a. Collegiate games are huge business in the US with stadiums of up to 175000 people packing the up market stands and plush corporate booths all financed by the sweat of the athletes themselves, some of whom end up injured or even paralyzed without workman’s compensation. Coaches and assistant coaches and sundry hangers on can earn obscene salaries of up to $5 million a year (yet the athletes from whose shoulders this largesse springs complained of having no money for basic living expenses and even complained of hunger at times). Then the corporates weigh in as well, paying coaches handy retainers like $100 000 p.a. so their players will wear Nike shoes, which is a