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Over the past few months, I have used this column to explore the various injustices perpetrated by the I have written about the way it terrorizes the parents of athletes it is investigating — athletes, I should note, who are invariably suspended before they are even told the charges against them. I have questioned the N.C.A.A.’s lack of due process and its indifference to the most rudimentary concepts of fairness. I have pointed out that its rules enforcing amateurism discriminate against black athletes from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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