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Dropping The Ball: How The Growth Of Legalized Sports Betting Threatens The Nil Rights Of Collegiate Athletes, Peter Klensch
Dropping The Ball: How The Growth Of Legalized Sports Betting Threatens The Nil Rights Of Collegiate Athletes, Peter Klensch
St. John's Law Review
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One of the more storied runs in college basketball history happened in 2014 when the seven-seeded University of Connecticut Huskies (“UConn”) made the Final Four and defeated the University of Kentucky Wildcats to win the Division I Men’s College Basketball Tournament. As the second-lowest seed ever to win the Tournament, the focus should have been on UConn’s celebration in Storrs, Connecticut. Instead, the national media was drawn to comments made by UConn’s star point-guard, Shabazz Napier, who said that he sometimes went to bed “starving.”
The remarks caught the immediate attention of state legislators in Connecticut. Representative Matthew Lesser …