21-05-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com

Great Osobor: English basketball star set to make $2m before turning pro

The forward was born in Spain before moving to the UK. Now a changing US college landscape has helped him land a hefty paydayIn US college sports, the biggest money still goes to the coaches, like Jimbo Fisher, the Texas A&M football coach whose prize for failure over the past few seasons was a $77m buyout. But the players have begun to take a piece of the pie, too, for the first time in the 150-plus-year history of sports on campuses. And one of the biggest scores of all has just gone to a
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