August 15, 2008
New Fantasy Football League Tests NCAA's Rules on Amateur Status
The long-simmering debate over the commercialization of college sports reached a boiling point recently when CBS, the NCAA's key corporate partner, announced that it was creating a fantasy football league that uses college athletes' names.
A columnist for CBSSports.com described the game as an innovation comparable to "fire, electricity, telephones, planes, and cars."
But not everyone is quite so enthusiastic. Some observers see it as part of a continuing assault on the
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