‘This is a job’: Why college players reject the insidious term ‘student athlete’

The NCAA crafted a phrase to describe the unpaid workers who generate billions in revenue every year. But now many of them are fighting back

As the world of college sports finds itself in uncertain times, Dante Stewart is clear about one thing.

Nothing about college athletics suggests that being a student comes first. So, that language needs to be changed," says Stewart, a former Clemson football player. The student-athlete' is always being limited to being a student rather than a worker."