Obama Calls On NCAA To Rethink The Way It Protects And Punishes Athletes

WASHINGTON -- Weighing in on the growing debate over amateurism in college sports, President Barack Obama said on Friday that universities bear "more responsibilities than right now they're showing" toward their athletes and that the NCAA should require schools to guarantee athletic scholarships with no strings attached. "[T]he students need to be taken better care of because they are generating a lot of revenue here," Obama told The Huffington Post in a sit-down interview. "An immediate step th...