https://padlet.com/willowhumes34/facts_opinions http://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/6778847/college-athletes-deserve-paid en-us 2019-04-18 16:25:37 UTC 2019-04-18 20:45:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/willowhumes34/facts_opinions/wish/352670403 1.  On top of that, there's a new four-year deal with ESPN that pays the BCS $500 million. So, if those two deals were worth, say, a combined $10 billion instead of $11.3 billion, would the games not be televised? 
 Capitalism. Not everything is equal, not everything is fair. The most distinguished professor at the University of Alabama won't make $5.9 million in his entire tenure in Tuscaloosa; Nick Saban will make that this year. So I don't want to hear that it's "unfair" to pay the quarterback of Alabama more than all the sociology students in the undergraduate college. 
 If somebody is willing to give A.J. Green $750 or $1,000 or even $2,500 for his Georgia Bulldogs jersey, fine, good. If one of his teammates, a tackle, can fetch only $50 for his jersey, then it'll be a good marketing lesson for both of them. 

2. Somewhat credible. "He is the longtime co-host of "Pardon the Interruption" on ESPN and appears on the "NBA Sunday Countdown" pregame show on ABC" He knows the inside scoop, but doesn't know the budget. 
3. Credible source because it is ESPN

]]> 2019-04-18 20:36:02 UTC https://padlet.com/willowhumes34/facts_opinions/wish/352670403 https://padlet.com/willowhumes34/facts_opinions/wish/352670775 -FACT:  That $11 billion deal -- OK, it's $10.8 billion to be exact -- between the NCAA and CBS/Turner Sports for March Madness between 2011 and 2024. We're talking $11 billion for three weekends of television per year.
-OPINION:  And how in the world would you pay men in a way that wouldn't violate Title IX?
-OPINION:  What if people in the business of money took $1.3 billion off the top, invested it, sheltered it and made it available to provide a stipend to college athletes, how could anybody stand on principal and argue against paying the people who make the events possible in the first place?
-OPINION:  Let me declare up front I wouldn't be the slightest bit interested in distributing the funds equitably or even paying every college athlete.
-FACT (with a little opinion):  The most distinguished professor at the University of Alabama won't make $5.9 million in his entire tenure in Tuscaloosa; Nick Saban will make that this year. ]]> 2019-04-18 20:38:06 UTC https://padlet.com/willowhumes34/facts_opinions/wish/352670775 https://padlet.com/willowhumes34/facts_opinions/wish/352670795 - That's right, football and men's basketball players get paid; lacrosse, field hockey, softball, baseball, soccer players get nothing. You know what that's called? Capitalism. OPINION.

]]> 2019-04-18 20:38:13 UTC https://padlet.com/willowhumes34/facts_opinions/wish/352670795 https://padlet.com/willowhumes34/facts_opinions/wish/352670939 So, the equitable-application excuse for not paying athletes doesn't hold water; at the very least there's a level of hypocrisy here that ought to make the opponents of paying athletes uncomfortable. (Opinion)

If somebody is willing to give A.J. Green $750 or $1,000 or even $2,500 for his Georgia Bulldogs jersey, fine, good. (opinion)

The best football and basketball players in the Big Ten have produced to the degree that a television network has become the model for every conference in America, a network worth at least tens of millions of dollars to the member institutions.(fact)

The players have become employees of the universities and conferences as much as students -- employees with no compensation, which not only violates common decency but perhaps even the law. (opinion)

2) reliable- ESPN sports journalist talking about sports

3) very opinion-based article supported with some facts. ESPN credible, but this article is not because it's so opinion-based

]]> 2019-04-18 20:39:00 UTC https://padlet.com/willowhumes34/facts_opinions/wish/352670939 https://padlet.com/willowhumes34/facts_opinions/wish/352671091 $10.8 billion to be exact -- between the NCAA and CBS/Turner Sports for March Madness between 2011 and 2024. 


]]> 2019-04-18 20:39:51 UTC https://padlet.com/willowhumes34/facts_opinions/wish/352671091 https://padlet.com/willowhumes34/facts_opinions/wish/352671332 "Let me declare up front I wouldn't be the slightest bit interested in distributing the funds equitably or even paying every college athlete."
"So I don't want to hear that it's "unfair" to pay the quarterback of Alabama more than all the sociology students in the undergraduate college."
Michael Wilbon is the co-host of "Pardon the Interruption" - this does not make him credible (not that it makes him unreliable, but there is no merit in this title alone).
ESPN is a credible source for biased sports news. They are a profit-driven company that will report on what they believe will sell. I would outsource my research elsewhere if I want to get all of the facts.]]> 2019-04-18 20:41:01 UTC https://padlet.com/willowhumes34/facts_opinions/wish/352671332 https://padlet.com/willowhumes34/facts_opinions/wish/352671544 1. "football not baseball. . .?", "not everything is fair", "that's right. . . exactly soccer" "I'm interested . . . share a teeny tiny slice" & "in the meantime . . ."
2. yes he's reliable because he's built up a reputation at a sports journalist 

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