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On the recordJuly 8, 2014
How are young men, who strap on their helmets on a football field in front of 100,000 passionate and paying customers, how are they doing?
Said by
Jay Rockefeller
Democratic · West Virginia

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Questions the well-being of college athletes amidst commercial pressures.

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