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National Labor Relations Board rules Dartmouth basketball players are school employees.
Frida Ghitis : No group of college athletes has ever been closer to formalizing the reality that instead of just playing for their school, they work for it.
She says the ruling is massive but not unprecedented, or, quite yet, a victory.
Ghitis says the NCAA ’s long-preferred version of amateurism has been degrading slowly.
John Sutter : Dartmouth basketball players will soon vote on whether they want a union.
Sutter says the ruling could lead to a snowball effect on other college sports.
He says the NCAA and big conferences have been pursuing a congressional bill that exempts them from antitrust law and makes crystal clear that athletes can’t be employees.
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