GLENDALE, AZ – DECEMBER 28: Ohio State University has required its college football players to sign … [+] a waiver where they arguably have assumed the risk of contracting COVID-19 (Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images). Icon Sportswire via Getty Images It is bad enough that some big-time colleges have asked their unpaid football players to return to campus before it is deemed safe for the overall student body to do so. But now one college has gone even further, requiring its football players to assume the legal risks of their own premature return—a decision that plays into the greater systemic inequity within the NCAA system. According to an article published today by Joey Kaufman of The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio State University has required its college football players to sign a new and perhaps troubling document called the “Buckeye Pledge” that, among other things, includes a statement that…
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