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College Sports at a Crossroads | Salt Lake City News
Back in 1905, college football was a wild mess—players cheated on tests, took bribes from cigarette companies, and even played for two schools in one week. So President Teddy Roosevelt stepped in, forcing coaches to clean up the game—and that’s how the NCAA was born. A century later, the sport’s facing a new crisis: unregulated agents, coach turnover, and the chaotic transfer portal are threatening the very idea of college sports as an educational experience. The 2021 Supreme Court ruling let athletes profit beyond scholarships—which most people support—but it also made the NCAA legally…
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