The Drake Group: Advancing Positive Legislative Change in College Athletics
Drake President Andrew Zimbalist Introduces New Sister Organization
The Drake Group has established a new non-profit organization under the fiscal 501(c)(3) sponsorship of the Players Philanthropy Fund – THE DRAKE GROUP EDUCATION FUND. Andrew Zimbalist, Drake President explained, “Doing so will enable two important things to happen. First, The Drake Group will be better positioned to focus on its priority mission of influencing […]
The Drake Group: Who We Are
Learn about the mission and purpose of The Drake Group – working for the past two decades on critical college athletics reform issues. See the full story
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: NCAA Student-Athletic Academic Reform
Real Sports investigates who is responsible for enabling student-athletes with elementary
The Economics of College Sport
Andrew Zimbalist, Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics, Smith College; President-Elect, The Drake Group; author of Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-time College Sports (1999), The Economics of Sport, I & II (2001), Unwinding Madness: What Went Wrong with College Sports and How to Fix It (2017) with Gerry Gurney and Donna Lopiano, and Whither College Sports (2021), explains the economics of […]
Senator Christopher Murphy – Giving College Athletes A Greater Voice
At the 2022 Allen Sack National Symposium on Advancing Integrity in College Sport, U.S. Senator Christopher Murphy speaks on S.1929 — 117th Congress (2021–2022) College Athlete Right To Organize Act. Read S.1929 here See full 2022 National Symposium proceedings here
Gender Injustices in College Athletics
Did you know that, even 50 years after the passing of the revolutionary gender equity clause Title IX, 75% of colleges and universities are out of compliance with Title IX? Watch Drake Group leaders explain the lagging gender inequities and injustices in college athletics. See the full story
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