College football starts in basketball and you get to root for your alma mater or the team yet come to follow and its a lot of fun. Its gotten to be really big business. There are billions of dollars gamble on College Athletics. Theres billions of dollars in revenue generated from College Athletics, and its all built around a model of amateur athletics. So the fact that a lot of people are making money off amateur athletics, the challenge is, trying to make sure that the Business Model is fair, what you do but the people watching play the sport without destroying the amateur nature of the game . Because most of the people on a College Athletic team, that will be the end of their athletic career in terms of getting compensated. They get scholarships, many of them do, and room and board of them go into the private sector and go on about their lives. But the College Athletic experience is something i want to reserve. There are many people get to share that experience who will not turn it i
Thank you all the world in which we live in the testimony we will get through it so i will make an Opening Statement and senator booker and senator blumenthal. The title of the hearing today is protecting the integrity of College Athletics. Like most americans one of the highlights with basketball. And its a lot of fun its going to be really big business with collegeage athletics and its all built around the model and then the challenge that the Business Model is fair without destroying the immature nature of the game with the collegeage Athletic Team thats the end of their career and to get compensated they get scholarships and room and board but to go into the private sector that the College Athletic experience is something i want to preserve and those that will not turn that into their livelihood those that require College Athletics for the opportunities for women and thats a good thing. So at the highest level College Athletics football. The football budget supports everything else
Will make an Opening Statement and senator booker and senator blumenthal. The title of the hearing today is protecting the integrity of College Athletics. Like most americans one of the highlights with basketball. And its a lot of fun its going to be really big business with collegeage athletics and its all built around the model and then the challenge that the Business Model is fair without destroying the immature nature of the game with the collegeage Athletic Team thats the end of their career and to get compensated they get scholarships and room and board but to go into the private sector that the College Athletic experience is something i want to preserve and those that will not turn that into their livelihood those that require College Athletics for the opportunities for women and thats a good thing. So at the highest level College Athletics football. The football budget supports everything else. If youre an athlete how do we treat you fairly without turning it all into minorleag
Personnel are headed to heal soon air force base in alaska where is that to say come on ill show you heres an air force base in alaska this is interesting that this move is taking place right now its right there at the base that the have 30 fives are going to be drawing meaning the 6 teams and what else do they have there they have 169 air refueling units so its a big operation that theyre going to have there now whats the reason for any type of enhanced u. S. Military presence in this area the 1st thing obviously to look at is russia right why well geography and history both play into this story look at how close sometimes we forget just how close russia and the United States are to each other maybe as close as any other country out there when you really zoom in and thats what i want to do i want to zoom in for you take a look at the thing that we just discovered there are 2 little. Why lands right here in between the edge of russia and the edge of alaska one of those islands is calle
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