CNN analysis: Some college athletes play like adults, read like 5th-graders

In this article it talks about how some college basketball players from UNC could only read and write on a 5th grade level. At Chapel Hill there are approximately 183 "athletes who played football or basketball from 2004 to 2012. She found that 60% read between fourth- and eighth-grade levels." Some of the payers also only tried hard enough to get a passing grade to join the NCAA. Ever since 1980 players have been coming forward admitting they never learned to read and still made it to the pros. This really does surprise me that people are making it to UNC without even knowing how to read on a middle school level. Even though this is my favorite college basketball team it kind of scares me to know there not as smart as I thought they were. I would always wonder how they could keep up with basketball and school? But after reading that some of them get passing grades on classes they don't attend makes some since. This event does not really affect me because I don't plan on going to college for sports. So I don't need to be worried about everything that is going on. The central idea of this article is how some players don't read and write on a college level.


Ganim, Sara. CNN analysis: Some college athletes play like adults, read like 5th-graders. cnn. January 18, 2014. Web. January 27, 2014. <http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/us/ncaa-athletes-reading-scores/index.html?hpt=hp_t1.>.

Carter, Misti. "UNC perler pic". Medium. flickr. December 10, 2010. Media. January 27, 2014. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/misticarter/5247828271/.>.