Amateur status + big-time sports = hypocrisy
Aram Goudsouzian
Aram Goudsouzian is the Bizot Family Professor of History at the University of Memphis and author of numerous books on race, politics and culture. He serves on the Board of Directors at the National Civil Rights Museum.
Memphis sports fans are enraged about the enforcement of amateurism on the immensely talented basketball center James Wiseman, arguing that the NCAA’s execution is arbitrary and biased. In fact, amateurism, by its very nature, is arbitrary and biased.
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