🚨@HalSinger & I have a new article in the Antitrust Bulletin - excited to finally see it in print. We analyze the interracial transfer of wealth in intercollegiate athletics & antitrust’s failure to address this exploitation. Open access link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… 🧵1/n To estimate the revenue loss to Black athletes under the NCAA cartel, we use the athlete wage share & Black athlete revenue share of total salaries in the NBA (~90%). We estimate Black athletes’ lost pay share at between $17-$21 billion over the 2005-2019 period. 2/n

Immediate win-for-all situation: NCAA should drop its restriction on NIL rights for athletes and let EA Sports, etc. make & sell the NCAA basketball/football games, benefiting all constituencies. Why? Pandemic has exposed NCAA's specious antitrust defenses. A brief thread. 1/n First, NCAA's claims that some people would stop watching college sports if athletes received NIL payments, reducing demand. But this can't be true in a pandemic. There are no NCAA sports to watch anyway. Allowing NCAA BB/FB video games would be clearly demand-enhancing. 2/n

For those interested in key @UNC documents related to #TBI research, academic fraud, LD/ADHD, athlete rights, etc., including those featured in @TheAthletic piece, I will post them in this thread. @UNC @TheAthletic The email from Dr. Thomas Gualtieri discussing the 61% LD/ADHD prevalence among incoming FB/WBB athletes in 2 incoming cohorts.