As a star basketball player at Xavier University in the early 2000s, David West never questioned the NCAA’s amateurism model. Then he got to the NBA and began reading more about the revenues generated by the NCAA tournament, which now exceed $1 billion annually. “I started to understand,” West said, “the only difference between college sports and professional sports is the college kids aren’t getting paid.”That...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 25, 2019 18:45 UTC