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A day after football players at Northwestern University tentatively won the right to unionize, they and the Illinois school dug in for a lengthy legal and political battle that could reshape the multimillion-dollar sports business that U.S. colleges have built around unpaid amateur players. As politicians and college sports officials warned that athletes' push to be paid as university employees - rather than be compensated only through scholarships - could lead to calamity at many schools, the issue began to shift to Washington. That is where the five-member National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will consider Northwestern's bid to reverse a regional NLRB director's ruling on Wednesday in favor of the players. The regional director, Peter Sung Ohr, rejected Northwestern's contention that its football players are amateur athletes and granted the players the right to unionize as school employees.
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