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US authorities on Monday dismissed a bid by American football players at Northwestern University who had been seeking to form a union, overturning an earlier ruling which could have revolutionized college sports. The National Labor Relations Board said in a statement it had declined to assert jurisdiction in the case, effectively meaning that National Collegiate Athletic Association athletes would continue to be classified as college students instead of employees. In March last year, Peter Sung Ohr, director of the Chicago Regional Office of the NLRB, said the time college players devote to their sport and the fact that their scholarships are linked to their football participation make them employees as defined by the National Labor Relations Act.
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