{
  "id": 8012637,
  "title": "Want to Organize College Athletes? Start With Their Agents",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/want-to-organize-college-athletes-start-with-their-agents",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-17T11:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Sportico",
    "slug": "sportico",
    "url": "https://www.sportico.com/leagues/college-sports/2026/organize-college-athletes-with-their-agents-1234945086/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Today’s guest columnist is Chris Corr, executive director of the College Sport Research Institute. In January 2014, Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter and his teammates did something that, at the time, seemed almost unthinkable: They asked to be recognized as employees and to collectively bargain with their university. The effort ultimately failed. Although a regional National […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "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."
}