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Colleges are eliminating sports teams – and runners and golfers are paying more of a price than football or basketball players

  • Written by Molly Ott, Associate Professor of Higher & Postsecondary Education, Arizona State University
Colleges are eliminating sports teams – and runners and golfers are paying more of a price than football or basketball playersOver 5,000 student-athletes were directly affected by a recent wave of shutdowns of intercollegiate sports teams.Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

North Carolina Central University, a historically Black college, announced in February that its men’s baseball team – which formed in 1911 – would cease to exist after this...

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