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Jon Solomon (born April 19, 1973) is an American radio DJ. He has been the host of "Jon Solomon's Annual 25-Hour Holiday Radio Show" at WPRB in Princeton, New Jersey, since 1988, when he was fifteen years old. Solomon's weekly three-hour radio program broadcasts on Wednesdays on WPRB.
John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist, author and digital media entrepreneur who serves as Chief Executive Officer and Editor in Chief of Just the News.
Investigative journalist Jon Solomon says he has found over a dozen instances where Democratic players in the Russia scandal have had contact with Russia.FOX...
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- Why NCAA Athletes Are called Student-Athletes
- 1984 Supreme Court Decision Shifted The Power to Conferences
- Impact of Ed O’Bannon v. NCAA
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The term “student-athlete” is ingrained in the college sports vernacular. NCAA-organized press conferences involve a moderator seeking questions for any of the “student-athletes,” a term that historically comes to define the NCAA’s perceived moral authority and its justification for existence. It’s a term rooted in legal calculations. Walter Byers,...
Perhaps more than anyone else, the late Supreme Court Justice Byron “Whizzer” White saw the challenges coming for the NCAA. White essentially predicted so much of this – the commercialization, the defections for TV cash, the NCAA’s struggles to protect amateurism – when he wrote the dissenting opinion in the landmark NCAA v. Oklahoma Board of Regen...
The next chapter of challenges against the NCAA is still being written. The results will be based in part on the O’Bannonruling – the legal precedent set, how college athletes are more cognizant of the money around them, and the public’s opinion about amateurism and what it even means. The O’Bannoncase ended up with victories for both sides. The pl...
Jon Solomon, a sports journalist and author, explores the history and challenges of paying NCAA athletes for their names, images and likenesses. He traces the origins of the term "student-athlete" and the legal battles over amateurism in college sports.
Mar 24, 2023 · Jon Solomon, circled, in a photo from the Princeton 1996-97 media guide. He’s wearing a shirt from legendary indie band Silkworm. Three of the band’s albums have been reissued on Solomon’s record label, with two more on the way.
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Jon Solomon is the Editorial Director of the Sports & Society Program at the Aspen Institute. Jon came to the Institute after a sportswriting career that included stops at The Birmingham (Ala.) News and in South Carolina at the State in Columbia and the Independent-Mail in Anderson.
