10676, commonly known as the Student-Athlete Protection Act (SAPA). The law mainly addressed the pressing issue concerning the residency rules required for student-athletes under the UAAP. In the past we have heard of proposals providing student-athletes with a prime condo unit, a car and an insane amount of monthly allowance. Sometimes, one way of sealing the deal with the student-athletes is providing their parents jobs or assistances of any kind. It seems that this is another way of commercializing a student-athlete but the law doesn’t seem to touch on it.

Source: Manila Times March 17, 2017 09:56 UTC