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NCAA does not play nice with others

» Video game forced to remove 13 female athletes

from their player roster

Brittney MacDonald
Life & Style Editor

N good deed goes
unpunished, as video game
developer Electronic Arts (EA)
found out earlier this month. In
an effort to make their vastly
popular FIFA franchise more
gender equal, EA decided to
include popular female soccer
players into their FIFA 16 title.
Unfortunately, due to a conflict
with the National Collegiate
Athletic Association (NCAA), EA
was forced to remove 13 female
players from their video game
roster.

Interest in women’s soccer
has been increasing on a global
level, with the National Women’s
Soccer League (NWSL) reporting
a 30 per cent increase in
attendance since the last World
Cup.

EA’s decision to include the
female players was in an effort
to reflect and encourage this,
making FIFA 16 the first in the
long FIFA franchise to include
players from both the NWSL and
NSL (National Soccer League).
The game was released on
September 22. Unfortunately,
right before the game’s initial
release, the NCAA claimed that
13 of the chosen female athletes
that were set to appear in the
game would be “...risking their
eligibility for collegiate athletics
by being included in FIFA 16,”
according to a press release given

by EA.

EA rebutted the claim,

: stating in the same press release:
: “We do not agree with this

: position. All rights were secured
: following standard protocol

: with national governing bodies

: and federations, and none of

: these NCAA student-athletes or

: potential student athletes were to
: be individually compensated by

: EA Sports for their inclusion in

: the game.” Student athletes are

: not allowed to individually profit
: from use of their image rights

: according to the NCAA rules.

Basically, what this translates

: to is the NCAA threatening to
: revoke or refuse membership

: status for 13 female players if

: EA released the game without
: removing said players, making
: them ineligible to play under

: or receive any sort of athletic

: scholarships if they planned

: to attend school in the United
: States.

Though EA was very

: adamant that they disagreed

: with the NCAA decision, they

: complied and removed the

: players in question. Due to

: this, popular Canadian athletes

  

Screenshot via EA.com

: Kadeisha Buchanan, Jessie

: Fleming, Ashley Lawrence,

: Janine Beckie, Rebecca Quinn,

: and Sura Yekka, along with six

: student athletes from Mexico and
: one from Spain, were all removed
: from the game prior to release.

The NCAA's rules regarding

: student athletes profiting from

: use of their image has repeatedly
: come under scrutiny from the

: public—mostly due to the fact

: the NCAA repeatedly sells the

: publicity rights of certain student
: athletes to secure profit for itself.
: This is often done without the

: athlete’s knowledge, and they

: receive no compensation for it.

: Recently, former NCAA star Ed

: O'Bannon, along with a group of
: other former collegiate athletes,

: took legal action and enacted a

: class-action lawsuit against the

: NCAA, in an effort to change the
: association’s licencing practices

: regarding the use of its members’
: images and likenesses. In total,

: the NCAAs current contracts

: regarding use of their athletes’

: images are estimated to be worth
: over four billion dollars.

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Todd ‘The Animal’ Ewen dead at 49

» Former NHL enforcer killed by a self-inflicted gunshot wound

Alex Stanton
Staff Writer

Tes Ewen, former NHL
tough guy who racked up
nearly 1200 penalty minutes in
a career spanning 11 years and
four clubs, became the latest
ina series of hockey enforcers
who’ve died prematurely over
the course of the past few years.
He died in Wildwood, a suburb
of St. Louis, Missouri, only 49
years old.

After his family revealed
that the self-described “goon”
had been suffering from
depression for years, questions
were once again raised by

: critics and advocates about the
: connection between fighting

: in the NHL and degenerative

: brain diseases. According to St.
: Louis County Police Sergeant

: Brian Schellman, Ewen’s death

: involved no foul play; he is

: reported to have died of a self-

: inflicted gunshot wound.

The career of “The

: Animal,” a Canadian who called
: Saskatoon his hometown, began
: in 1984 (following his stint in

: the WHL in 1982 in British

: Columbia) as the 168th pick in

: the eighth round draft by the

: Edmonton Oilers. He didn’t play
: his first league game until the

: 1986-87 season when he was

: traded to the St. Louis Blues, the

: club he would spend the next

: four years with. Proving himself
: as a capable fighter in his early

: years, he spent the ’90s amassing :
: penalty minutes with the Mighty
: Ducks of Anaheim, the San

: Jose Sharks, and the Montreal

: Canadiens. He ended up playing
: four seasons with Montreal,

: the very last being the 1992-93

: season in which the Canadiens

: snatched the Stanley Cup from

: the Los Angeles Kings—the last

: time a Canadian team won the

: Stanley Cup.

He played 518 games during

: the NHL regular season, retiring
: with over 1,911 minutes—or

: roughly 30 hours—spent in the

: penalty box in total. He has the

: 58th highest number of penalty
: minutes in the history of the
: NHL.

Ewen, whose depression

: may have come about due to

: the degenerative brain disease

: CTE (Chronic Traumatic

: Encephalopathy), is being

: sought for scientific purposes

: by the medical community,

: including renowned Toronto

: neurosurgeon Dr. Charles Tator,
: who sent a letter to the Ewen

: family requesting that they

: donate Todd’s brain for research
: purposes. Dr. Tator has been

: researching long-term head

: injuries in sports following

: the 2011 suicides of three NHL

: enforcers, including former

: Vancouver Canuck Rick Rypien.

In February of this year,

: Steve Montador, another former
: NHL-er with a decade long

: career, died in his Mississauga,

: Ontario home at the age of 35.

: Born and raised in Vancouver, he
: was found to have accidentally

: overdosed on a combination of

: prescription pain killers and

: alcohol. This event yet again

: sparked discourse concerning

: player safety, and was also the

: catalyst for 10 NHL players suing
: the league for ignoring the

: evidence of correlation between
: degenerative brain diseases and

: repeated concussions over a long
: period of time.