College Athletes Look for Power in a Union

Staff / Truthdig Jan 31, 2014 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Student athletes want more than scholarships for their billion dollar labor, Dr Jill Stein and Aura Bogado respond to the State of the Union, why the Costco model beats the Walmart model, and arguably the most powerful progressive in the House retires. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Dirty Secret of Some Pro Sports Leagues: They’re Nonprofits

BLANK Sep 12, 2013 There's a ripple of movement in Congress to strip nonprofit status from pro sports businesses such as the NFL and PGA, raising fresh questions about why taxpayers should support billion-dollar entertainment industries. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Pennsylvania Suing NCAA Over Penn State Sanctions

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jan 3, 2013 Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is filing a lawsuit against the NCAA on behalf of his state, claiming that the governing body of college athletics overstepped its bounds when it issued harsh penalties against Penn State University for its handling of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Penn State Penalized for Sandusky Scandal

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jul 23, 2012 The NCAA, college football's governing body, hit Penn State with unprecedented penalties on Monday for not taking action after discovering that former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was molesting young boys. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Occupy NCAA

John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune Dec 19, 2011 Dig deeper

American Officials Enjoy Lives Without Shame

Derek Lazzaro / Truthdig Sep 3, 2011 Three recent news headlines illustrate how shameless some American officials have become when it comes to breaking the rules or messing up and pretending that everything is still OK. They also prove that in modern America, it’s possible for screwups to continue their lives and careers with hardly a blip.Three recent news headlines illustrate how, in modern America, it's possible for some well-placed screwups with the right connections to continue their lives and careers with hardly a blip. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Real Madness of March

David Sirota / Truthdig Apr 8, 2011 Lowell Bergman is the rare skunk who regularly finds his way into the power elite's garden parties. In his damning special now available on PBS's "Frontline" website, viewers are shown the side of "amateur" athletics that's almost never discussed inside the beery bubble of sports media. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Policy Bracket

Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Washington Examiner Mar 19, 2011 Dig deeper

These Devils Wear Privilege

David Sirota / Truthdig Apr 2, 2010 A country founded on anti-royalism and defined by anti-aristocrat political rhetoric will naturally profess disgust for, say, Ivy League presidential candidates and Duke basketball. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

March Mildness: How the NCAA Tournament Lost Its Swagger

Mark Heisler / Truthdig Apr 1, 2010 The NCAA Tournament is the highest-level single-elimination event in basketball, making it special. Nevertheless, in the Big Dance’s present incarnation, other words come to mind, like bloated, over-commercialized and bland. In the Big Dance’s present incarnation, words like bloated, over-commercialized and bland come to mind. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

New Stimulus Plan

Nate Beeler, The Washington Examiner Mar 17, 2009 Dig deeper