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Our View: Reward college athletes, with an education

USA Today

January 13, 2012

The roughly 100 public universities in the NCAA's top-tier football division took in more than $5 billion last year. And just about everybody - the coaches, assistants, colleges, broadcasters and merchandisers - shared in the spoils. Everybody, that is, but the players, the "student-athletes" who play without salaries and can be sanctioned for accepting a free meal.

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