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DALLAS — Remember when college athletes couldn’t wait to turn pro so they could buy their mama a house and feed their babies and stop faking that they were going to class? These days football players are staying in school until the money runs out, just like your kids do. Only joking, of course. Not every football player will take advantage of a loophole and a lawsuit that affords them another ...
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