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Message: [QUOTE="hugefan, post: 2714437, member: 5274"] Rice is not alone. There are currently mixed signals about who can get paid as an athlete and who cannot. While Olympic swimming star Katie Ledecky of Stanford is one of the most recent to have to stop competing collegiately in order to start earning money, Notre Dame basketball star Arike Ogunbowale recently received a waiver from the NCAA that allowed her to make money as a participant on [I]Dancing with the Stars[/I]. The NCAA said it was granting the waiver because the show was unrelated to her basketball abilities. Rice isn't buying it. "I couldn’t for the life of me understand the explanation,” she said, “because obviously she’s there because she hit two winning shots in two basketball games (in the women’s Final Four), so that’s the connection.” Condaleeza Rice on the current problems with the NCAA, USAToday [/QUOTE]