Jason Kirk
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Senior Newsletters Editor at The Athletic
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22 hours ago |
nytimes.com | Jason Kirk
Until Saturday Newsletter 🏈 | This is The Athletic’s college football newsletter. Sign up here to receive Until Saturday directly in your inbox.
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3 days ago |
nytimes.com | Jason Kirk
Until Saturday Newsletter š | This is The Athleticās college football newsletter. Sign up here to receive Until Saturday directly in your inbox. Today in college football news, itās the 10th birthday of the greatest pop album ever, āEmotionā by Carly Rae Jepsen. I might prefer āDedicated Side B,ā though. Absolutely, itās time to lead the newsletter with the video game again. (Though if youāre not into the video game, thereās other stuff below.
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6 days ago |
nytimes.com | Jason Kirk
Until Saturday Newsletter š | This is The Athleticās college football newsletter. Sign up here to receive Until Saturday directly in your inbox. Today in college football news, absolutely, I will try the Takis Fuego Wendyās meal. The first official ādeep diveā video on EA Sportsā upcoming College Football 26 is here, narrated by Kirk Herbstreit and focusing on gameplay. A video on Dynasty Mode will follow on Tuesday.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Jason Kirk
Every quarter-century in college football is busy, to be clear — now I want to do a whole newsletter section on the least consequential such period, because that’d actually be really, really hard — but these 25 years have left massive and often long-awaited marks on the sport’s history. Last week, Scott Dochterman ranked the 25 most consequential stories since 2000. As you’d expect, the top of the list includes a whole lot of 2020s. It’s been an especially busy decade, and it’s only halfway done.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Jason Kirk
"We crafted the term student-athlete, and soon it was embedded in all NCAA rules and interpretations as a mandated substitute for such words as players and athletes."That was Walter Byers, writing in his 1995 book "Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting College Athletes." Forty-four years prior, he'd been named the first executive director of the rapidly expanding NCAA. (Obviously, his mind had changed along the way.)Why'd the NCAA concoct "student-athlete"?
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