Monday, December 23, 2024

Read On

The John Feinstein column on the Ivy League joining the real world and allowing football teams to compete in the NCAA playoffs was behind a paywall on the Washington Post page. If you couldn't access it before, you can now read it HERE.

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A column headlined 2024: The Year College sports Turned Pro has this high up (LINK):
The most legally significant development in college sports in 2024 occurred in February, when NLRB regional director Laura Sacks ruled that Dartmouth College men's basketball players were employees within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

She stressed the relevant legal question is not whether the basketball program is profitable-major companies report losses from time to time and their employees don't suddenly become interns-and implicitly urged that people view the matter as one about labor, not sports. To that end, Sacks said the players are employees because they qualify under the applicable legal test: They perform work for Dartmouth in exchange for compensation (including preferred admissions into an elite university, per diem, clothing, sneakers, etc.) and the school has the right to control that work.

And there's more, so click through.

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 Another one for @DelbyLemieux

Read more about honors for the Dartmouth offensive lineman HERE. 

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EXTRA POINT

Two days into winter it is finally starting to feel like it. The overnight low at our hillside home here in Vermont last night was a crisp 10.2 below zero. With snow once again covering the ground after last week's rain and 3-5 inches of white stuff due tonight, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

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