When States Meddle in College Sports Markets, Taxpayers Lose
The old regime in college sports — where players were supposed to be pure amateurs and dirty old money was kept — was nonsensical. The Supreme Court ruled that the NCAA could not prevent players from cashing in with deals involving their names, images, and likenesses — NIL. Nothing wrong with that.
But, almost inevitably, some states are now intervening in this market to........
