Coaches making the kind of salaries that late UCLA legend John Wooden wouldn't recognize. And now a union for football players at Northwestern that would previously have been unthinkable in college sports. A ruling Wednesday that the Northwestern football team can bargain with the school as employees represented by a union may not by itself change the way amateur sports operate. But it figures to put more pressure on the NCAA and the major conferences to give something back to the players to justify the billions of dollars the players bring in - and never see.
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