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My Latest.
Took my breath away.
Lawyers for the @NCAA are arguing in legal documents that we obtained that they don’t have to pay student athletes because the 13th Amendment allows unpaid slave labor.
Yes, I’m serious.https://theintercept.com/2018/02/22/ncaa-student-athletes-unpaid-prison/ …
6. Then, understand just how outrageous it is for the NCAA to form their legal lips to say Vanskike v. Peters, which is about prisons not paying inmates, supports their argument that NCAA athletes do not have to be paid.
I hope you’ll take this as sincerely friendly advice and not ball-busting: ask two lawyers who you trust & aren’t involved in the litigation — @ggreenwald or whomever — to look at the briefs & evaluate whether this argument makes sense. I promise they’ll tell you it doesn’t.
This feels like a bad-faith argument. The NCAA is trying to cite legislation that defines "employment," and grabs a definition from the case rather than comparing players to prisoners. It's one case cited on page 5 of a 20 page complaint around prior NCAA rulings.
That is sickening.
Obvs the NCAA is peddling crap: players are assuredly employees, even if the NCAA wants to present them as products. But it doesn't seem like you're citing the complaint fairly here.
they crazy thing is that NCAA coaches become millionaires. John Oliver talked about that topic before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX8BXH3SJn0 … three years ago…
Um, “except as punishment for a crime”. Btw, #AmendThe13th
Outstanding athletes who have achieved good grades in order to be there on scholarship ?
How are these guys criminals, because they’re “mainly black” athletes and have dared achieve a status of a sort? #Shame @NCAA
The hubris of this is just breathtaking. The NCAA must really believe its immune from criticism.
So, if I am an @ncaa athlete must I also be a prison inmate with truncated rights as a citizen? 
13 does make an xception for involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime (can argue whether the Black Codes consequences were intended by the framers or not) but there doesn’t seem to be an applicable case law derivation from this case except to support the player’s claim ???
Stephen Miller moonlighting at the @NCAA?
No, the Student-Athletes ARE COMPINSATED! Very well! Quick list of what they Get for free: •Tuition •Lab fees •Books •Meals and snacks •Activity Fees •Room and Board •Tutors 1/2
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