"Not NCAA property": College basketball players push for compensation as tournament starts
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College players from more than 15 teams playing in this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament are taking aim at the NCAA, demanding a reform to rules that will allow for collegiate student athletes to be compensated.
While the NCAA is expected to make nearly $900 million during March Madness and split it amongst its member schools, players won't see a dime. Among the athletes leading the charge to change that include Michigan's Isaiah Livers, Iowa's Jordan Bohannon and Rutgers' Geo Baker, who all tweeted out "#NotNCAAProperty" as part of a protest organized by the National College Players Association (NCPA). "We deserve an opportunity to create money from our name, image, and likeness," Baker tweeted on Thursday. "If you don't agree with that statement, then you are saying that you believe that I, a human being, should be owned by something else."A cybercriminal group claims it stole personal data belonging to more than 500 million Ticketmaster customers. Although the event ticketing service, owned by Live Nation Entertainment, hasn't confirmed the attack, security experts warn that it could put users of the platform at risk for a range of scams.
Two climbers were waiting to be rescued near the peak of Denali, a colossal mountain that towers over miles of vast tundra in southern Alaska, officials said Wednesday. Originally part of a three-person team that became stranded near the top of the mountain, the climbers put out a distress call more than 30 hours earlier suggesting they were hypothermic and unable to descend on their own, according to the National Park Service.
There's no making up for what Olympic hurdler Lashinda Demus lost on the day she finished .07 seconds behind a Russian opponent who, everyone later learned, was doping. What the American 400-meter hurdles champion will finally receive is a great day under the Eiffel Tower where she'll be presented with the gold medal she was denied 12 years ago at the London Olympics.