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They’re also just 2-5 against the spread in their last seven games overall. Ball State will counter with a true freshman quarterback in Riley Neal.

Then the 6-1, 230-pound Fournette finished that play with a finesse move that buckled the knees of safety Nick Ruffin, and No. 13 LSU was well on its way to a 45-21 victory over 18th-ranked Auburn on Saturday. “I put team before that”.

Northwestern University appealed. Although an election did take place, the ballots were kept secret pending resolution of the appeal.

In March of that year, a regional NLRB director in Chicago ruled that the football players on scholarship were “employees” entitled to unionize under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). He also said the decision sidestepped the key question of whether scholarship...

Given today’s hostile labor environment, it’s hard enough maintaining institutional discipline in a traditional union, much less in a bunch of college kids, many of whom, one short year ago, were a bunch of high school kids.

In a massive blow for the rights of student athletes, the National Labor Relations Board denied the Northwestern football team the right to unionize by “declining jurisdiction” in the case – effectively saying they chose not to rule on the matter but would allow...

If NU’s players made a lot of noise with their decision to unionize, they sounded like a whisper in a hurricane Monday, when the NLRB announced that it had chosen not to rule on the matter.

All this non-decision does is push major college athletics further into a sea of questions, with no floatation device – not even the government agency responsible for resolving labor disputes – available to help. The question at the heart of the debate remains unanswered.

Alan K. Cubbage, Northwestern’s vice president of university relations, said in a statement that Northwestern considers its student-athletes to be students and the school is pleased with the NLRB’s decision.

The National Labor Relations Board announced Monday that it would not wade into the case of Northwestern football players who were seeking to unionize, meaning college football will remain union-free, at least for the time being.

In a unanimous decision, the National Labor Relations Board has rejected Northwestern University football players’ petition to form a union by declining to assert jurisdiction in the case.