Compensating college athletes - Swedish PM out - First trans Olympian

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22 JUN 2021 View in browser Facts, not fear. TRENDING TOPICS Supreme Court on NCAA • American Airlines flight cancellations • Belarus sanctions • Swedish PM ousted • First openly trans Olympian FEATURED UNDER-REPORTED STORIES DNA species-hopping • Facebook's new currency • Ethiopia's unequal development You are on the free plan of The Factual Ask 5 friends to try The Factual. Get a free year of The Factual Premium! Refer a friend TRENDING TOPICS, MOST CREDIBLE STORIES #1 in U.S. News • 41 articles How will a recent Supreme Court ruling impact college athletics? Top from last 48 hrs NCAA can't ban colleges from compensating athletes, Supreme Court says. Reason (Moderate Right) • Factual Grade 82% • 3 min read The court's unanimous ruling today in NCAA v. Alston is actually a relatively narrow one that deals only with whether schools can give student-athletes education-related benefits, such as providing free laptops or access to internships as a condition of playing sports. But the case seems likely to throw open the doors to a broader challenge to the NCAA's requirement that student-athletes be unpaid amateurs. ... "The NCAA's business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America," wrote Justice Kavanaugh [in a concurring opinion]. For example, Kavanaugh wrote, restaurants could not agree to refuse to pay their cooks under the theory that consumers would prefer to eat food prepared by amateur chefs. ... Several states have already passed laws carving away at the NCAA's ban on giving athletes a share of the revenue derived from the use of their likenesses, and the NCAA indicated last year that it is reading the room and might changes its policy. Top from different political viewpoint Supreme Court rules against NCAA in antitrust case in unanimous decision. USA Today (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 74% • 6 min read Top long-read Our college sports system is broken. Do we have the guts to fix it? (2019) Boston Globe (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 77% • 24 min read View all articles TODAY'S POLL Should college athletes be paid directly? Yes No Unsure All votes are anonymous. This poll closes at: 9:00 PST YESTERDAY'S POLL Should a country's citizens be required to vote? No   77% Yes   18% Unsure   5% 374 votes, 49 comments Context: France's record low local election turnout. HIGHLIGHTED COMMENTS " No - Many voters are already fairly uninformed, and adding in the people who don't care enough to vote unless they're forced to would only magnify that problem. Voting should be conveniently available for everyone who wants to vote, but if someone doesn't want to, that should be up to them." " Yes - Yes, the ability to vote nay seems like a discretionary choice, but it is a right that has..." " Unsure - Australia will fine you if you don't vote. This seems like it would have higher voter turnout but more "uneducated" votes. [...] Media/electio..." Full comments for subscribers only. 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