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David Haugh: College basketball's latest scandal makes it clear: It's time to let players be paid what they're worth

In a Chicago market dominated by professional sports, big-time college basketball often sounds like a misnomer, so the sport's latest brush with NCAA hypocrisy probably produced somewhere between an eye roll and a shrug.

But pay attention this time. The stunning revelations about the sport's open secret, unearthed in reports by Yahoo Sports and ESPN, feel different, like a day of reckoning finally has arrived for the NCAA and its obsolete model of amateurism. This March, the madness likely means top programs worrying as much about FBI findings as RPI rankings, with

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