claims for injured football players. if a player was a student athlete, they were not by definition an employee and ergo not qualified for workers comp if they got injured on the field. that means ncaa players are essentially the uncompensated employees of the cartel. players who literally as we saw risk their limbs on the court in order to produce a product that is immensely, immensely profitable. how profitable? in 2010, the ncaa reached a 14 year, $10.8 billion deal with cbs sports and turner broadcasting featuring just march madness. that s $770 million a year. what does it mean for the basketball player? there happens to be a study that provides the number. football and men s basketball players at top sports schools are being denied $6.2 billion between 2011 and 2015 under
olympic games. how do they do it? abc s jeffrey kofman finds out. reporter: it s beginning to sound look a broken record at these olympics. chinese anthem blasts out again. and again. and again. as its athletes ascend the podium. the cold war is over, but the u.s. and china are locked in an olympic gold war. while the u.s. medal haul has been consistent in recent years, chins has rocketed. from five golds in 1988 to 51 in 2008. how do they do it? this week, abc s gloria riviera in beijing visited one of the thousands of sports schools where future chinese olympians are already being groomed. this headmaster told abc news the secret to china s success. young athletes who train hard and can endure hardship. hardship. look at the face of this girl as a coach stands on her legs. but the secret to china s medal success isn t just early and relentless training.
reformers whose perspective i share believes the only way the major sports schools can achieve any integrity is to recognize that college football and men s basketball are big businesses. openly acknowledge their commercialization and pay the workforce. this is by now a moral imperative. joe, it s good to see you. nice to be here. not every time we lead in with a clip from a football ç game. although it is still at bottom a business story. the nfl excuse me, college football, and men s basketball make more money combined than the nba. that s right. and there s been a big movement, especially this year because taylor branch that s right. really just a takedown of college athletics and the hypocrisy you talk about. is it moving that way toward paying college athletes? in some ways it is, although the ncaa will resist this until their dying breath. but there is litigation going on and an increasing sense that all these stupid scandals that are taking place i m not ta
went or university of maryland, alabama, any of the big sports schools and, you know, you ve got to be thinking there s got to be kind of a knot in the pit of your stomach, and you want to know, you want to make sure, certainly nothing horrible like this. but what s going on in your athletic department? and is it in control? and do you know what s happening? this is a huge story, and i hope it it has an influence over big-time college sports in this country that s lasting, i hope. you certainly understand being a michigan grad, the power the devotion beckler would ve had in the 60s and 70s. woody hayes at ohio state. for people that live in urban areas that don t follow college football in more rural areas, they have no idea. they have no idea how powerful, gene, a woody hayes or a joe
we say? nebraska, tulsa, alabama, bates and bowdoin. a lot of southern representation here. not only are they big sports schools in terms of the teams but they have a lot of intramural and varsity sports participation and i think that is partially because they re out in great weather. you know, they re outside a lot. the students come there and it is easy to have facilities where people can participate in sports. and for university of nebraska, the number one school, it s just, you know, a very, very sports minded school from top to bottom whether in intramural sports or the more elite part of the school sports system. we ve got a lot of parents who have their kids applying for college and i hope they ve been taking some notes on this. it s a great ranking. thank you for sharing it with us. newsweek education editor, thanks. let s go with penn state university which makes our number ones list today. why? it tops the wall street journal list whose schools are