Word: ncaas
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...good a thing as being “professional” is bad. But the technicalities can be absurd. If your parents can afford to send you to sports camps every summer, you remain an amateur. You can win the gold medal for your country and the NCAA championship for your college and still be an amateur. But if you join your Olympic teammates on the Wheaties box, you instantly become a professional. That is why some 1998 U.S. women’s ice hockey Olympians were not in the Wheaties photo: appearing—even with no money changing...
...every Division I athletic conference but the Ivy League, high school senior athletes sign what amounts to a written contract, known as the NCAA letter of intent, to attend a college or university and receive an athletic scholarship. On signing day, which falls on the first Wednesday in February, the recruiting process ends...
...League, however, does not honor the NCAA letter of intent because the Council of Ivy Presidents cannot overcome the “pay for play” overtones of such a letter. This view is delusional, though, as some Ivy-bound athletes presently choose one Ivy over another based on need-based financial aid packages, which are often juicier at the better endowed schools—in particular Harvard, Princeton, and Yale...
...seniors who have already made a verbal commitment to a coach. The letter, which can be mailed at almost any date, confirms that the athletes are likely to be admitted come April. But Jeff Orleans, the executive director of the Ivy League, confessed to me that he believes the NCAA letter of intent fosters greater integrity, honesty, and morality than the Ivy likely letter because “the likely letter is inviting problems the way it?...
...sport that has historically distanced itself from the NCAA label did so again this month, when the NCAA Management Council voted down legislation proposed by the Pac-10 to make men’s rowing an NCAA sport with an NCAA Championship...