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    Commentary: A Jim Crow divide in college sports

    by Victoria L. Jackson, Los Angeles Times Jan 12, 2018 3 minutes

    Now that the bowl season and College Football Playoff have concluded, college sports fans are shifting their attention from football to basketball in anticipation of March Madness.

    Although I'm a huge sports fan and ran track at school, I won't be watching any men's college basketball this spring. Not because I don't support the athletes. Rather, I can't endorse a system that exploits football and basketball players so that "nonrevenue" athletes like me - runners, tennis players, golfers, gymnasts, swimmers -

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