Asked about his reaction after the Washington loss, Williams said it’s important to be himself.
“I’ve been an advocate for mental health, trying to show your emotions and express yourself, things like that,” Williams said to the Orange County Register’s Luca Evans.
“It’s something I’ve been doing since I was young and now, being on the national level, being able to try and share that awareness with the public.” …
Unsurprisingly, the rollout has been inconsistent and unfair.
According to a study by Opendorse, the leading athlete marketplace and NIL technology company, the NIL market should grow by 11.2% to a whopping $1.17 billion. And while that’s great for all student-athletes, the lion’s share of that money is flowing into the 65 Power 5 football programs. …
Some additional facts from NIL year 2 via The Upside:
Deep-pocketed alumni superfans, also known as boosters, have created complex organizations and nonprofits to effectively use as slush funds to attract the top athletes to play for their alma maters
A group of University of Iowa superfans, pays recent transfer quarterback Cade McNamara $600 an hour for various community-oriented tasks, like delivering meals to seniors and making visits to children’s hospitals
Michigan State football players, are simply tasked with promoting their collective’s charity via social media, … some athletes to make as much as $25,000 per post.
University of Utah’s Crimson Collective is granting every scholarship football player a new $61,000 Dodge truck — leased to each player
average starter at a major football program now makes about $103,000 a year, according to Opendorse, while the average men’s basketball player with a collective deal earns $37,000
“[The collective system is] a pay-for-play scheme disguised as NIL,” Big Ten Conference commissioner Tony Petitti said at a Senate hearing in October
HOPEFULLY, the beginning of the NIL era may be remembered as a short-lived period of unregulated mayhem. The IRS is increasingly cracking down on booster organizing.
More regulation is needed. And it must be enforced.
All that said, I support College athletes getting MORE of the billion$ made by the NCAA.
But it should be done more fairly.
Livvy Dunne was the highest-valued women’s college athlete as of 2022.
One downside of fame and money is the need for security.
“Olivia Dunne Says Security Travels with Her After Incident Last Season” | People https://t.co/3IT4ohfHFM
IF Russian athletes are allowed to compete Paris, I predict almost 100% of the headlines will be negative.
How does BAD PRESS further the Olympic cause?
The ethical decision, too, is to keep the pressure on dictator Putin. If he is successful in a war against Ukraine, it will embolden China and others to invade neighbours. Putin is a danger to the entire world.
The best decision is to continue the ban — at least until after Olympics 2024.
Killing Ukrainian athletes, destroying 🇺🇦 sports facilities, involving 🇷🇺 military into their Olympic Committee, violating international law by occupying the territories of the sovereign state…
Capital Baku — which hosts many FIG competitions — can be accused of sportswashing, trying to improve their international reputations tarnished by wrongdoing.
In fact, the first usage of the term “sportswashing” may have been applied to Azerbaijan hosting the 2015 European Games in Baku.
September 2023, Azerbaijan launched a large-scale military offensive against Armenians in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh — internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but populated by Armenians.
Human rights organizations and experts in genocide prevention issued multiple alerts, stating that the region’s Armenian population was at risk or actively being subjected to ethnic cleansing and genocide.
I post this information here because the world seems to have mostly ignored the most recent attacks on Armenians. We should be aware of the situation every time we talk about the World Cup in Baku.
While I am disappointed for Russian gymnasts not allowed to compete internationally, I fully support the BAN on Russian athletes as long as Putin insists on expansion into Ukraine.
Why Russia and not every other nation that is at war with neighbours?
Good question.
Russia is different, I argue. That nation was already banned by the IOC for systematic doping. sReason enough.
Totalitarianstates like Russia, China, Turkmenistan, North Korea, etc. should be held to a different standard by IOC because one human being can make decisions personally. For decades. IF Putin is allowed to get away with invading Ukraine, why should he stop there?
Putin has virtually had 100% control since 1999 and seemingly plans to rule for life. He pretends to have elections — but there is no chance citizens can decide on an alternative.
Critics have described the organization as the Russian equivalent of the Hitler Youth and a modern, republican form of the Soviet Komsomol and Young Pioneers.
Here’s the kind of things children are trained to do in Putin’s Russia.
… Obviously, there’s a lot of great male coaches, but it feels really special to have a whole delegation of women.”
In addition to Landi, who coaches JordanChiles, Tiana Sumanasekera and Zoe Miller, and Memmel, who helps oversee the U.S. program, personal coaches Kelli Hill (coach of KaylaDiCello), Haiou Sun (Kaliya Lincoln) and Marnie Futch (Katelyn Jong) round out the delegation. …
'Girl power!'@USAGym brought an all-female women's delegation to the Pan Am Games this week – a first at a major Games in recent memory (or maybe ever?)@CMemmel, @CLcecile + @ChilesJordan on the milestone and empowering the next generation of coaches:https://t.co/tDBBmsslYK
I take that as a bad sign for the Head Coach, Tom Farden, who’s already been investigated and not found guilty on complaints similar to what Kara has experienced.
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