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Message: [QUOTE="Dave85, post: 1746653, member: 3946"] The NCAA is a lot like FIFA. Billions of dollars, huge bureaucracy, corruption everywhere, what a mess. And not paying NCAA athletes, who are really employees of the University in my mind, is like slavery but FIFA has that too! "On Wednesday, the US Department of Justice [URL='http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/nine-fifa-officials-and-five-corporate-executives-indicted-racketeering-conspiracy-and']dropped the hammer[/URL] on FIFA, the world governing body of soccer, indicting nine senior FIFA officials and five sports marketing execs on charges of corruption, wire fraud, racketeering, and money laundering. [URL='http://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/may/10/millions-bribes-qatar-2022-world-cup-claims']Allegations of bribery[/URL] have long plagued FIFA, especially since its controversial decision to grant Qatar the 2022 World Cup. But much worse is the plight of South Asian migrant workers brought in to build the stadium infrastructure there: Since 2010, more than 1,200 migrant workers have died in Qatar under hazardous working conditions, and a 2013 [I]Guardian[/I] investigation [URL='http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/sep/26/qatar-world-cup-migrant-workers-dead']found[/URL] that at least 4,000 total are projected to die before the 2022 World Cup even starts. And as we reported yesterday, Nepali workers [URL='http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2015/05/world-cup-qatar-nepal-earthquake-soccer']weren't even allowed [/URL]to return home after the country's recent devastating earthquake. [URL='http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/27/a-body-count-in-qatar-illustrates-the-consequences-of-fifa-corruption/']Christopher Ingraham[/URL] at the [URL='http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/27/a-body-count-in-qatar-illustrates-the-consequences-of-fifa-corruption/'][I]Washington Post[/I][/URL] put that toll in perspective in a striking infographic. He compared the number of workers who died in the run-up to several Olympics and World Cups with the number of those who have died in Qatar so far. It's horrifying:" [/QUOTE]

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