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October 25, 2011 | NCPA Aware of New TV Money, Players Petition NCAA to Invest in Reform This Week NCAA Board to discuss reform this week, players unite for comprehensive reform.
October 24, 2011 | Associated Press (AP) College athletes press NCAA reform College football and basketball players petition NCAA and college presidents to invest a portion of new revenues in providing basic protections, increasing graduation rates, and decreasing NCAA violations.
September 16, 2011 NCPA TV, Radio, Print Highlights - Watch ESPN OTL Debate and more Countless media organizations have seized on the NCPA-Drexel study's call for a new model of amateurism in NCAA sports. The AP, ESPN, AOL Fanhouse and more...
September 13, 2011 | NCPA Study: College Athletes Worth 6 Figures, Live Below Federal Poverty Line
July 12, 2011 | http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=6746255 ESPN Asks NCPA President Ramogi Huma About Pay For Play NCPA President Ramogi Huma stated, "Open up the market [to the players] on commercial revenue. You can have the open market or the black market. The NCAA has chosen the black market..."
June 27, 2011 | Associated Press (AP) Connecticut Adopts NCPA's Student Athletes Right to Know! "Recruiters are fueling a lot of myths," NCPA President Ramogi Huma said. "Chief among them is the four-year scholarship. Four-year scholarships don't exist, so this bill will show recruits the truth and point out things they need to consider when making a choice."
May 02, 2011 Coaches & NCAA Bullying Basketball Players The NCAA and the colleges claim that their goal is to educate student-athletes, but this is a clear example of how the NCAA too often keeps players uneducated and financially undervalued in order to increase revenues.
February 09, 2011 | The Hartford Courant Legislators Hear Testimony On Need To Spell Out Details On Athletic Scholarships, Medical Expenses Ramogi Huma, a former UCLA football player and president of the National College Players Association — a California nonprofit made up of more than 14,000 Division 1 student athletes — also testified at the hearing and went one step further. He said the majority of high school recruits decide which college to attend based on "false information given to them by athletic recruiters."
February 01, 2011 | USA Today Rules fail to curb schools from oversigning football players "I think if schools are held accountable they are going to have a harder time treating players badly," says National College Players Association President Ramogi Huma, a former UCLA football player.
January 18, 2011 | NCPA The $11 Billion Plan The NCPA pushes the NCAA to finally live up to its commitment to fully support athletes' education...
January 09, 2011 | CNN Is college athletics a sweatshop? ...Huma believes that "the growing disparity in the money for the universities that the athletes generate, and what they receive," is reason for a rational discussion about a compensation system being put in place
January 06, 2011 Survey Results: College Football Players Support Playoff How do college football players want to crown the national champion? The NCPA gives frustrated players a voice...
October 26, 2010 | Associated Press Study: 'Free ride' still costs athletes "It's really deceptive to use the words 'full scholarship.' ... There's never an explanation for recruited athletes..." - NCPA President Ramogi Huma
October 25, 2010 | New York Times N.C.A.A. Sued Over One-Year Scholarships Lawsuit: By unlawfully agreeing not to offer multiyear athletics-based discounts, the N.C.A.A. and its member institutions have ensured that student-athletes who are injured or who simply do not meet the school’s expectations can be cut from a team and their scholarships terminated.
October 15, 2010 R. Jay Soward discusses payments Former USC Trojans receiver R. Jay Soward, who admits to taking money from former agent Josh Luchs while he was in college, said he believes the NCAA needs to give student-athletes more in their stipend checks... "if we can give these kids a little more money in their pocket, spending money, I don't think kids would do it," he said.
August 29, 2010 | LA Daily News Former UCLA linebacker Huma recruits Schwarzennegger for his cause And when AB 2079 passes, credit Huma with another tackle. With an assist to Schwarzenegger. "Now the governor, who was himself once a prominent athlete, can enshrine his legacy by protecting California athletes," said Huma.
September 22, 2010 Maryland's Gary Williams: Colleges Can Pay Players, and Should "... if you did pay the revenue-producing sports athletes, you would still have that money coming in that they exist on now. There's plenty of money off the men's basketball tournament that you can pay men's basketball players, football players, whatever, the revenue-producing sports, and still have enough money to run your other sports, and I think that's why a lot of people (believe) they should be paid.'' - Gary Williams, University of Maryland head men's basketball coach
June 21, 2010 | NCPA How to Make a Donation to the NCPA Click here for info on how to make a tax-deductible donation to the NCPA, a 501c3 nonprofit corporation.
June 12, 2010 | Fox Sports No incentive not to cheat in college game "It's just like the CEOs who ran the big banks and the mortgage companies. They were completely irresponsible, but they all got paid."
June 04, 2010 | NCPA College athletes on verge of key victory in California The National College Players Association and others helped get the Student-Athletes Right to Know bill passed in the California Assembly. Click here for more.
May 24, 2010 | The Associated Press Revoked scholarships surprise college athletes After scoring just 22 points all season in mop-up duty, Missouri freshman forward Tyler Stone has no illusions of bolting college for the NBA after a single year. Instead, the 6-foot-7 Memphis native is a different sort of one-and-done: a college athlete leaving a school sooner than his family expected as a prized recruit takes over his scholarship. "I can't see how a school can love him to death one year and the next year cut him loose," said his mother, Sharon Stone. "They had to get rid of somebody."
April 27, 2010 | Fanhouse NCAA Players' Cut of Mammoth TV Deal Still the Same: Zero Percent On the website of the National College Players Association -- a California-based organization dedicated to protecting college athletes from abuses by their schools and the NCAA -- is a summary of a plan to use the television-rights revenue from the men's basketball tournament to better fund athletic scholarships and programs threatened by Title IX.
July 27, 2009 | FOXSports.com National columnist: NCAA exploits college athletes in video games Mark Kriegel, a national columnist for FOXSports.com, writes about how the NCAA exploits college athletes to make millions off of video games. Click here to read more.
July 27, 2009 | Los Angeles Times LA Times writes about ex-star O'Bannon's lawsuit against NCAA LA Times reporter Kurt Streeter writes about former UCLA star Ed O'Bannon's lawsuit against NCAA over the use of images. He and other former players allege the NCAA owes them a share of profits from the sale of television and online reruns, video games, jerseys and other items. Click here for more.
July 16, 2009 | New York Times New York Times: College Athletes Stuck With the Bill After Injuries The New York Times had an article today that exposes the ugly truth about how college athletes are often stuck with medical bills from college-related sports injuries. Click here for more.
March 18, 2009 | NCPA March Madness: NCPA study reveals turnover rates on basketball tourney teams All recruits and parents need to consider a program’s turnover rate as a factor when choosing a team to play for as they are an indicator of a college athlete’s job security and job satisfaction; high turnover rates should be a red flag to recruits and their parents. Read more about a new NCPA study here.
March 12, 2009 | NCPA Join the NCPA Click here to read about the benefits of NCPA benefits and how to join online. It's free!
March 13, 2009 | NCPA NCAA Survival 101: NCPA High School Outreach Program Helps Student Athletes The NCPA has begun a campaign to inform high school football and basketball players about how to survive while playing in NCAA sports. Read more here.
March 13, 2009 | NCPA NCPA Wins Victories for College Athletes Read about the many NCPA victories that have improved the lives of college athletes here.
March 13, 2009 | NCPA The "Free Ride" - Should We Complain? Some say college athletes get a "free ride" and should not complain. Click here to read why this idea is nonsense.
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