But a student who designs and sells greeting cards and mentions on her Facebook page that she is a softball player risks losing her athletic eligibility. That is shameful. Bylaw 12.5.1.3 has got to go.

It means that the author’s book biography cannot state that he participates in a college-level sport. It means that, in publicizing the book to students or alumni, the college cannot mention that the author is a student athlete.

But N.C.A.A. bylaw 12.5.1.3, otherwise denoted as “Modeling and Other Nonathletically Related Promotional Activities,” specifies that, in promoting the book, no reference can be made to the individual’s “involvement in intercollegiate athletics.”

Our school is fortunate to have as a student a young man (whose name I can’t mention) who has published a book (whose title I can’t cite). The book has nothing whatsoever to do with athletics, but among his many activities at the college, he participates in an intercollegiate sport (which, of course, shall remain unspecified).

let’s begin by reforming the association’s bylaw that prevents college athletes from promoting any personal creative endeavor if they even mention that they participate in a sport.

Its root cause is that universities with powerhouse sports teams like U.C.L.A., Ohio State and Texas receive nearly $20 million a year from brands like Adidas or Nike, while the athletes wearing the Adidas or Nike apparel are expected to compete purely for the love of the game.

It’s about the lengths to which the N.C.A.A. goes to control every dollar and branding opportunity associated with college athletics.

Had other hospitals opposed the MetroHealth amendment, it's extremely unlikely (given the Statehouse's legion of hospital lobbyists) that the amendment would have had such a calm voyage - if it sailed at all.

But in terms of how the legislature does business, HB 111's "process" was less than ideal.

If you prefer your English plain, here's what that means: Among Ohio's 88 counties, only two have charters -- Cuyahoga and Summit. And only one of those two counties has a hospital with county-appointed trustees: MetroHealth.

Fifteen months later, by last May, HB 111 had grown to a 97-page grab bag. And tucked into the bill's 303-word title were these 25: "to authorize a board of county hospital trustees of a charter county hospital to have hospital facilities in a county contiguous to any charter county."

The House passed the bill in a 96-0 vote later than month.

Making MetroHealth expansion legally possible via an unpublicized add-on to an unrelated bill, without public debate, discussion or hearings, is poor policy, plain and sim

It's the process to get there that was flawed.

that will let the Cuyahoga County-supported MetroHealth System expand into nearby counties.