{"id":13576,"date":"2017-10-26T15:06:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T15:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2017\/10\/26\/is-the-ncaa-equipped-to-handle-scandals\/"},"modified":"2017-10-26T15:06:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T15:06:30","slug":"is-the-ncaa-equipped-to-handle-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/is-the-ncaa-equipped-to-handle-scandals\/","title":{"rendered":"Is The NCAA Equipped To Handle Scandals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/the1a.org\/shows\/2017-10-26\/ncaa?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/the1a.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/GettyImages-854181888.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The National Collegiate Athletic Association is responsible for governing hundreds of thousands of students who compete in college-level sports.<\/p>\n<p>But lately, the NCAA has come under fire for its handling of a <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/college-basketball-coaches-allegedly-took-bribes-agents-deliver-athletes-n804781\">massive bribery scandal<\/a> that&#8217;s prompted a federal investigation into college basketball.<\/p>\n<p>Some critics of the NCAA say corruption within college athletics could be curbed by <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligencesquaredus.org\/debates\/pay-college-athletes\">paying students to play<\/a>, giving them a share of the football and basketball programs that make schools millions.<\/p>\n<p>Are financial incentives the future of college sports? Would a new distribution of money put student athletics on a more even playing field?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/the1a.org\/shows\/2017-10-26\/ncaa?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Is The NCAA Equipped To Handle Scandals?\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/the1a.org\/shows\/2017-10-26\/ncaa?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/the1a.org\/shows\/2017-10-26\/ncaa?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/the1a.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/GettyImages-854181888.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The National Collegiate Athletic Association is responsible for governing hundreds of thousands of students who compete in college-level sports.<\/p>\n<p>But lately, the NCAA has come under fire for its handling of a <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/college-basketball-coaches-allegedly-took-bribes-agents-deliver-athletes-n804781\">massive bribery scandal<\/a> that&#8217;s prompted a federal investigation into college basketball.<\/p>\n<p>Some critics of the NCAA say corruption within college athletics could be curbed by <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligencesquaredus.org\/debates\/pay-college-athletes\">paying students to play<\/a>, giving them a share of the football and basketball programs that make schools millions.<\/p>\n<p>Are financial incentives the future of college sports? Would a new distribution of money put student athletics on a more even playing field?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}