{"id":17373,"date":"2025-08-23T14:41:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=17373"},"modified":"2025-08-23T14:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:41:43","slug":"college-sports-are-changing-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=17373","title":{"rendered":"College Sports Are Changing &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\"><em>This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">College athletics were once casual and fun, more like a club sport than a serious endeavor. But \u201cover the past 75 years, NCAA sports has become ever more professionalized,\u201d Marc Novicoff wrote recently. \u201cFootball and men\u2019s basketball began to generate eye-watering sums of money, incentivizing colleges to invest more resources in them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">Now, recent court cases have allowed athletes to get paid by advertisers, fans, and their schools. As college athletes\u2019 status changes, both their careers and the experience of college-level sports are starting to look different. Today\u2019s reading list explores the meaning of school sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\"><strong>On College Sports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">The End of Niche College Sports<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">By Marc Novicoff<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">Letting schools pay revenue-generating athletes is long overdue. If that means letting squash and water polo die, so be it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">Read the article.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">College Sports Are Affirmative Action for Rich White Students<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">By Saahil Desai<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">Athletes are often held to a lower standard by admissions officers, and in the Ivy League, 65 percent of players are white. (<em>From 2018<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">Read the article.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">The Logical End Point of College Sports<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">By Marc Novicoff<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">If players are workers, schools will have to pay them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">Read the article.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">Still Curious?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li aria-level=\"1\">  <\/li>\n<li role=\"presentation\">Meritocracy is killing high-school sports: Athletics are supposed to be great equalizers in American life. But they\u2019re being hijacked by the wealthy, Derek Thompson wrote in 2019.<\/li>\n<li role=\"presentation\">Do sports matter?: In 2022, readers weighed in on the role of athletics in today\u2019s society\u2014and if they should have one at all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">Other Diversions<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">P.S.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Nancy Farese<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">I recently asked readers to share a photo of something that sparks their sense of awe in the world. Nancy Farese sent this photo \u201cof my cold dip buddies who brave the icy temperatures of the SF Bay at 7am on Sunday mornings.\u201d She adds: \u201cIt&#8217;s a time of fellowship (we circle up and read Mary Oliver&#8217;s Why I Wake Early) and courage, the glossy heads of seals, the clatter of gulls, and the cloak of fog rolling back under the Golden Gate Bridge as the sun is rising.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">I\u2019ll continue to feature your responses in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">\u2014 Isabel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. College athletics were once casual and fun, more like a club sport than a serious endeavor. 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