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College Athletes: Amateurs or Paid Professionals?
There's big money in college bowl games, but none trickles down to the people who bring in the audiences who watch on TV. Should players get a piece of the action?
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenThere's big money in all those college bowl games, but none of it trickles down to the people who bring in the audiences who watch on TV. Is it time for the players to get a piece of the financial action? Also, Russians plan extreme security measures for 2014 Sochi Olympics, and a new documentary that offers a street-level view of two years of rebellion in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
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3 storiesRussians Plan Extreme Security Measures for 2014 Sochi Olympics
The slopes of the Russia's Sochi Mountains will be covered with the world's best bobsledders, downhill racers and ski jumpers during the February Winter Olympics. Hovering over all of their heads… drones. They are just "part of a package of security measures that are severe even by standards of recent Olympics."
Read the story8 minShould College Athletes Be Paid?
Who works 40 or 50 hours a week without salaries? Student-athletes -- or athlete-students, as more have been calling themselves. Colleges say football and basketball players are "amateurs" who play for the love of the game, but they mean big business for major institutions. The holidays bring another season of bowl games, with a difference.
Read the story35 min'The Square:' Filming the Egyptian Revolution as It Happened
In January of 2011, Egyptians took to Cairo's Tahrir Square to lead what became a revolution. One experienced documentary filmmaker was there, and she kept filming for more than two years, shooting away during several unexpected transformations of the Arab Spring.
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