{
  "id": 15192920,
  "title": "Kill College Sports to Save College",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/17/kill-college-sports-to-save-college",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-17T12:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Sportico",
    "slug": "sportico",
    "url": "https://www.sportico.com/business/sports/2026/killing-college-sports-to-save-it-1234952191/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Today’s guest column is by SUNY Albany professor emeritus Bruce Svare. In 2001, the brilliant columnist Robert Lipsyte wrote a seminal column for The New York Times on the ugly status of college sports in American higher education. Entitled “BACKTALK; The Devil and an Angel Envision a Revolution in College Sports,” Lipsyte spent time with […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}