Naturally, the two sides to this argument bicker, though a member of one side hardly ever convinces a supporter of the other. Those who support the status quo say it’s impossible to discuss such a topic with people who obviously don’t see the inherent beauty in college sports and that these kids are supposed to be students first, athletes second. Meanwhile, those who want a major overhaul in college sports would say, “It’s difficult to fight nostalgia, even when it’s stacked up against facts”…
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Whole Foods is being hailed for their recent decision to start labeling all genetically-modified foods. We’ve been eating GMOs (the “O” stands for “organisms”) for a long time already, mostly without being aware of it, as they’re in most of our soybeans and corn supply. But with “labeling,” at least now if an Alien-like creature bursts out of our ribcage on account of some far-out tomato, no one can say that we weren’t warned…
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Dr. Frankenfood, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Tolerate GMOs
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It’s Time to Start Paying NCAA Players
Pride Cometh Before The Fall: The NCAA vs. Ed O’Bannon
O’Bannon is positively giddy with excitement and with good reason: he has just led the UCLA Bruins Men’s Basketball team to a championship in 1995 – the first in twenty years. Yet the lasting memory of O’Bannon in the minds of college basketball fans may prove to be quite different. For there is a very chance that history will remember him not as the man who helped make the NCAA, but the one who helped bring it crumbling down…
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Avis Buys Zipcar: Has Sharing Gone Mainstream?
Last week, car rental giant Avis Budget Group announced its $500 million acquisition of sharing economy darling, Zipcar. Avis Budget is a huge, international company with more than 29,000 employees and 10,000 rental locations spread out over 175 countries. Zipcar is a car sharing pioneer, offering its customers a way to enjoy the benefits of car ownership without the financial commitment or the environmental footprint…
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Collective Bargaining in MLB and the NBA: It’s All About the Benjamins
The recent James Harden trade changed my perception of sports. I’d always been aware on some level that sports teams operate as businesses and that their decisions were based, at least in part, on the bottom line. But I also held firm to my belief that winning championships took precedent over everything. The Harden trade forced me to confront a thought (and Puff Daddy song) that I’d long been avoiding: It’s all about the Benjamins…
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