John Oliver Takes Down The NCAA’s Ridiculous Profits From March Madness

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It is March Madness time (you already know this since you are spending all day filling out brackets rather than doing your actual job). And while watching the games (and winning your bracket pool) can be exciting, the NCAA’s tournament is severely messed up.  [adsanity id=11528 align=alignright /]

While colleges, coaches, and television networks make a ton of money off of the tournament (more ad money than the Super Bowl), the players make zero.  Sure the “student athletes” get an education, but that may not be the same type of schooling the other students get.

John Oliver and the ‘Last Week Tonight’ team find this extremely unfair – and you probably will too after watching the funny and madenning segment:


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