Hollywood stars involved between Desperate Housewives and Full House – admission to college corruption scandal, the country has caught! – and leaves plenty of room for indignation. Spot was selective in elite institutions, the hard work students and athletes for children, whose parents paid for fraudulent tests or false sport profiles could have been earned instead. Payments for fraud went to a show love to make tax evasion deductible for the alleged perpetrators. But the connection to another scandal noxious smell skip college sports to pollute. With the huge stadiums sell, sell clothes and through the sponsorship of businesses and for television rights – wearing soccer teams and big-time basketball in millions for their schools – among other sources of income. Often this revenue to support a whole school of sports business. Despite this faucet cash NCAA rules football and basketball players this means no compensation on the value of a scholarship and the cost can earn salary for participation. Meanwhile, 55% of men’s basketball player to so-called “Power 5” great schools conference (The Big 10, Big 12, ACC, SEC, Pac-12) is black, according to data from the NCAA, while nearly half of the power of football players 5 are black, the advantages of this non-paid players, many of whom come from low-income families, which often support sports like tennis, where 48% of the players of the men in power conferences are white and only 12% are blacks, and other sports that are themselves more exclusively white as water polo for men (82%), women’s rowing (75%). Only 2% of the water polo players of the men and women rowers in big conference schools are blacks. to get the dynamics of unpaid, often low-income blacks athletes of sports revenues high income that funding for, in general, to know the athletes with background rich in low-revenue sports such as water polo disturbing enough. Add this scandal and the rich often about families presumably sports opportunity were cheating, that can not exist without the work of unpaid blacks athletes, and rethink if system grows even stronger. “This scandal is an example of corrupt, wealthy, mostly white parents benefit from work in many cases, poor soccer players unpaid and black basketball whose athletic talent that actually qualified for inclusion,” says Shaun R . Harper, a professor management and executive director of the University of Southern California racing and the share of the center. “This is an example of systemic racism”. In Harper School, for example, director of the USC Associate Athletics Donna Heinel has received more than $1.3 million in bribes sports backgrounds of more than two dozen students, admission to the school. fake made after a complaint in federal court in Boston and unsealed on March 12 Many of the students for whom even the sports gambling “recruited” according to the complaint filed Heinel the daughter of a parent – Napa Valley vintner Agustin Huneeus, who also it has been loaded into the system – as a competitive water polo player; their sporty profile contained a picture of someone else to play the sport. USC water polo coach Jovan Vavic would receive $250,000 in payments to call recruits for his team two students. USC shot Heinel and Vavic. The indictment says that the former women USC football coach Ali Khosroahin and women’s football assistant coach Laura Janke designate more than 350,000 for their private $soccer team the children of four customers singers received as USC football recruits, though no of them played football competition. The dispute is about each school. At the University of Texas, football and men’s basketball accounted for 90% of income UT athletic team in 2017-18, according to federal data. Football alone produced $143,064,180, or 79%, of the $180,259,057 in revenue by teams of UT, booking a profit of $101.8 million dollars. UT sports noncommercial – all next to the football and basketball, and many of which field teams with a disproportionate number of white athletes – has generated $15,928,952 in sales and $33,412,294 in total. It is a deficit $17.5 million. It turned out that some of the sporting activities on the low side income of Texas’ registers were downright criminal. Texas men’s tennis coach Michael Center would take more than $90,000 bribes in exchange for the student-athlete students Silicon Valley High School is named as a recruit, even if the student has not played competitive tennis. The application of students, according to the document, listed as responsible for his basketball teams and high school football. In fact, he played tennis a year as a freshman. According to the complaint, it hits the center in June 2015 William “Rick” Singer, Southern California College admissions counselor, plead guilty to criminal charges resulting scandal broad mind against 50 people, including Singer wealthy parents pay to fool tests or provide them with the kids as college athletes and college athletic coach, payments have taken the inclusion of these students to facilitate their schools. In essence, the authorities say Singer payments to parents with his conduct of fictitious charity would, and Singer would have taken a wrong tangent coach cut. Students as athletic recruits often get a leg-up on others in the college admissions process, even if their academic credentials of another candidate song. No students were calculated. Singer, according to the document, gave the center $60,000 in cash in a parking lot Austin. The putative tennis player was given a scholarship to UT, who paid for his books. As soon as he got on campus, he has abandoned the tennis team and gave up his scholarship. But he still had his place at UT. The university fired plant on Wednesday; It is to describe because trapped in a court of Boston, on March 25, the Singer authority to fake recruitment scam to high school students as a “side door” in universities, the figure with the legit approval as a “port d ‘ input “, and the” back door “to be eight and donations resulting from campus buildings and so on. “There are no side door, give me a break,” Harry Edwards, the famous Sport says sociologist and activist who helped organize the greeting Black Power to the 1968th Olympic Games “has offered a sewage line to the basement stairs. You a situation in which to bring these trainers are on moonlighting behind unpaid in white children, not the legitimacy of the campus, because they cite, not interested than blacks children who are so often complained in science. ‘which it is a charade. “Fortunately, the channel can be attacked. Administrators can ensure athletes recruited from actually playing sport which presumably start too well. “There is no way any personal athletic than all this should have lost,” said the sports lawyer Donald Jackson, an associate professor at Samford University School of Law in Cumberland, athletes in case of NCAA eligibility represented. The next step: investing responsibly sports agents. “This is an opportunity for colleges and universities to look at yourself in the mirror,” says Angela Reddock-Wright, an employment lawyer in Southern California, is the customer university. “Make sure that athletes make a lot of money intended for schools” – rather than paying for fake water polo. The money could go on unpaid black players seem corrupt opportunities for rich white families had funded. So, now more than ever, is not the time to pay only for the players?
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