{"id":925959,"date":"2026-08-09T13:12:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T18:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/09\/there-would-be-no-college-sports-without-the-colleges-themselves\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T13:12:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T18:12:49","slug":"there-would-be-no-college-sports-without-the-colleges-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/09\/there-would-be-no-college-sports-without-the-colleges-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There would be no college sports without the colleges themselves\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\">\n<h2 id=\"big-money-is-distorting-college-sports-in-too-many-ways-to-count-3\">\u2018Big money is distorting college sports in too many ways to count\u2019<\/h2>\n<div id=\"blueconic-article-theweek\">\n<div>\n<h2><span>The Week<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.theweek.com\/servlet\/OrdersGateway?cds_mag_code=TWE&#038;cds_page_id=275740&#038;cds_response_key=I4BRBKSW1&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_source=theweek.com&#038;utm_campaign=wku-all-digital_referral-202401-sub-none-fbk24&#038;utm_content=us-in-article\" target=\"__blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\nSUBSCRIBE &#038; SAVE\n<\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>Sign up for The Week&#8217;s Free Newsletters<\/h2>\n<p>From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Jeanice Kucera <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/politics\/instant-opinion-college-sports-senate-smoke-russia\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Big money is distorting college sports in too many ways to count\u2019 The Week Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. SUBSCRIBE &amp; SAVE Sign up for The Week&#8217;s Free Newsletters From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":925960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1850,122],"tags":[6450,5980],"class_list":["post-925959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college","category-there","tag-college","tag-there"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}