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Mar 14, 2021

2021 March Madness Predictions

FiveThirtyEight 2021 March Madness Predictions In-game win probabilities and chances of advancing, updating live.

Oct 12, 2020

Hundreds Of Schools Are Still Using Native Americans As Team Mascots

In the summer of 2020, public tolerance for companies advertising with racist images was at an all-time low. Brands including Aunt Jemima, Mrs. Butterworth’s and Uncle Ben’s all announced plans to change their product imagery and in some cases even their names in reaction to widespread public protests against anti-Black racism. The world of sports […]

Jun 08, 2020

Student-Athletes Will Soon Be Social Media Influencers. And One College Program Is Helping Them Do It.

More than 600 University of Nebraska student-athletes are expected to return to campus for the fall semester. Like their peers, they will train to compete in their respective sports while presumably working toward a degree. They will don their school colors to perpetuate a billion-dollar industry without so much as receiving a living wage in […]

May 15, 2020

How Much Money Could Student-Athletes Make As Social Media Influencers?

For its first half-century of existence, the NCAA outlawed student-athletes from receiving so much as a scholarship in compensation. All these years later, the nonprofit organization pays its 460,000-plus student-athletes in good ol’ fashioned opportunity, despite having evolved into an industry that charges networks nearly $1 billion annually merely for March Madness TV rights. Of […]

Mar 19, 2020

2020 (Simulated) March Madness Predictions

FiveThirtyEight 2020 (Simulated) March Madness Predictions