the ncaa's stance is you're not employees andnt these are stu athletes and these are colleges and notpro-competitiv to keep it this way and it would be anti-competitive to make it a free marketn this case because it would disrupt the current process. >> i'll take the other side of that being a football buff. >> which school? >> notre dame. >> independent. >> that's right. >> so take a look at coach's salaries regardless of which team you're talking about. the enormous amount of money that comes in from college football. some would say that the athletes basically bring in all of those people,ring in all that money to the college. look, the best athletes go to the best schools. they go to th notre dames because they've got the big coach salaries and the big stadium financing and the great facilities. and the >> the tv, the tv games. >> they've got all of the money anyway, so they're going regardless ofai getting so even if you paid them the best best s would get t student anyway. you could make the argument that they areayg. thanks so much. >> that will do it for us tonight. herera. tha

the ncaa declined an on camera interview. in a statement it works with its members to support a healthy and safe environment for college athletes through providing guidance and resources endorsed by a broad coalition of scientific and medical communities. it calls the lawsuits unwarranted and inappropriate. >> as the cases progress, you will see that is not true. >> reporter: attorney rafey balabanien is involved in those lawsuits. >> they knew very early on the science behind this. they covered it up and ignored it year after year and that's the truth. >> flat out you're saying the ncaa is guilty of a cover-up? >> guilty of a cover-up and willful disregard for the health and safety of their students. >> reporter: a boston university study of former football players brains donated to the brain bank found degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy or cte associated with head trauma in 90% of the former player's brains. >> i think it's only the beginning of this. >> reporter: chris nowinski. >> i think

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i say here, as in so many things of college sports, the enemy is ncaa, who first tried to defeat title ix. host: are we seeing any pushback for title ix? are colleges or organizations or politicians or anyone looking at the changes you are describing on how title ix is being used? guest: yes. the most important is on the sexual harassment, sexual assault rules. a lot of complaints not just from colleges but from civil libertarians, free-speech lawyers who say we have to protect the due process of the rice of the accused. were issued by the obama administration in 2011 and 2014 were run by the trump administration, and the trump administration is about to issue rulesrules -- proposed that will modify 2011, 2014. the "times" just leaks a story about that. we will find out what those proposals look like. while there are very few things that the trump administration has done that i think is good, the fact that they have got to much more open his door rulemaking i think it's something that we should applaud. -- open participatory rulemaking i think is something that we should applaud. host:

30 top officials are denying they wrote it. >> only on "cbs this morning," new lawsuits claim the ncaact student athletes from head injuries for decades. we'll talk to the widow of a college football player suing over her husband's brain damage. >> plus, a black wisconsin teenager traveling with his wife grandmother was handcuffed after a report he was robbing her. why the family says the police explanation does not add up.

lou: how about an ncaa wees wreg for that. >> i am for that.ou: jim jordan. >> 3 times. >> thank you. >> politics is nasty stuff. gosh. rinoohio governor, john kasich wants republican lawmakers to forget they are running in a two party system. >> you don't work for a president, you don't work for a party, when you or the streets with the folks, they are judging you for who you are, my advice to a republican, is hey, be your own person. be your own man or woman. >> i guess he meant support president trump. because he was elected president. the folks on street, american people who chose president trump over kasich and who chose president trump over what was her name? clinton, they want lawmakers to work for president's agenda that includes border security. >> questions swirling around abrupt closure of national solar observatory and sun spot, new mexico last week, observatory has been closed since, because a incident -- undisclosed security issue, sparked enough interest that fbi showed up to evacuate site, take control of site, we'll have more o

. >> that's when i started winning ncaa nationals. >> sam the men's 5,000-meter champion. >> i certainlyr there is sam chalenga. >> he's run the fastest 10,000-meter ever run by any collegiate athlete in the history of the united states. >> look at this incredible performance that chalenga continues to deliver. >> he would just glide across the cross-country trails and made it look so easy. >> the sun has broken through the clouds and shined on sam chalenga, who is now a national champion. >> i felt like he had a chance to be an olympian. >> i wanted to go to the olympics for united states. >> in order to do so, he would have to apply for u.s. citizenship. but before he would find a green card, he found love. with his future wife, mary beth. >> i met my wife at liberty. we were on the cross-country team. >> he had his eyes on me, and i was oblivious. >> she was really nice. >> i grew up in love with africa. it's as if my heart was building to be in love with sam. ♪ >> after i graduated, that's when nike picked me up. >> everybody in the track and field world realized that sam signing wit

. >> lou: how about an ncaa wrestling champion? >> i'm all for that. >> lou: jordan. jim jordan. >> three times. >> lou: thank you. appreciate it. politics is nasty stuff, isn't it? rhino ohio governor and never-trumper john kasich want republican lawmakers to forget they are running in a two-party system ahead of the midterms. >> you don't work for a president, you done work for a party. when you are on the streets with the folks, they are judging you for who you are. so my advice to republicans is hey, be your own person. be your own man or woman. >> lou: i guess he meant support president trump. because he was elected president. the folks on the streets, the american people, you know who chose president trump over kasich and who chose president trump over -- what was her name? clinton. clinton. they want lawmakers to work for the president's agenda. that includes border security. questions swirling around the abrupt closure of the national solar observatory in sunspot, new mexico, last week. the observatory has been closed ever since because of an undisclosed "secu

. >> lou: how about an ncaa wrestling champion? >> i'm all for that. >> lou: jordan. jordan. >> three times. >> lou: thank you. appreciate it. politics is nasty stuff, isn't it? rhino ohio governor and never-trumper john kasich want republican lawmakers to forget they are running in a two-party system ahead of the midterms. >> you don't work for a president, you done work for a party. when you are on the streets with the folks, they are judging you for who you are. so my advice to republicans is hey, be your own person. be your own man or woman. >> lou: i guess he meant support president trump. because he was elected president. the folks on the streets, the american people, you know who chose president trump over kasich and who chose president trump over -- what was her name? clinton. clinton. they want lawmakers to work for the president's agenda. that includes border security. questions swirling around the abrupt closure of the national solar observatory in sunspot, new mexico, last week. the observatory has been closed ever since because of an undisclosed "security

the university, ncaa, shoe companies, adidas, some on your staff.y in denial? is he? >> no, i'm not in denial. i did -- look, like i said, i've not cheated the game. i never one time as a head coach said, here robin, here's $20,000, come play for me. so i'm not in denial. we all have done things wrong. >> do you want to coach again? >> i don't. it's over for me. i know that. that's why i wrote the book. this book is my life. i have to take responsibility for the things that have gone wrong. >> is this about your legacy, this book, trying to -- >> no, the legacy -- my legacy of my children, i got a great family, great wife. players i've coached for over 30 some odd years as a head coach. there's highs and lows. i wrote this book because i don't want it to end as a low. i don't want to hear disgraced rick pitino. i don't want to hear that term anymore. i coached in an honest way. got every ounce of perspiration i could out of every athlete i coached for the right reasons, to make that athlete better. >> and he was strong about saying he was not going

>> ncaa basketball coaches. >> seth: oh, right, right, right.sponse to serena williams' protest against an umpire during the u.s. open, tennis star, martina navratilova, published an op-ed titled "what serena got wrong." >> it's like the old saying goes, behind every successful black person there's a white person who needs to shut up. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> seth: disney -- disney is facing backlash after it was announced that its first ever openly gay major character will be played by straight actor. >> but in their defense it's really hard to find a gay actor. [ laughter ] >> seth: jenny, is it hard to find gay actors? >> no! one-third of the actors at this desk are gay. >> at least. [ laughter and applause ] >> seth: two dozen white supremacists held a rally recently outside the white house. >> and when they were done, they went inside and got back to work. [ laughter ] >> seth: amber! >> it's funny because the president's a white supremacist. [ laughter ] >> seth: oh, it is funny. >> those laws. >> seth: alaska airlines apologized recen

. >> reporter: they're currently worn by 125 players and 125 ncaa programs and 1,000 high schools. >>like a car bumper would in impact. it slows impacts. >> it bends in? >> it does. >> reporter: now vicis wants to protect the youngest players on the field, his under 13. rolling out the new youth helmet. youth football signups have dropped 7% over the last decade with some schools simply shutting down their programs. much of the concerns center on head safety. >> are you going to also be able to provide parents with a little bit more peace of mind? >> i think one result is there are a lot of changes with football, vigilance, tackling equipment. >> reporter: and in one of the company's most vitt call missions, vicis is bringing its playbook from the football field to the battlefield inking a new contract with the u.s. military to replace the padding 234 army and navy combat helmets. >> today's combat helmet is cheaply designed to stop bullets and shrapnel. not for blunt impact. >> reporter: peter corelli led the department's efforts and now advises vicis. >> it only makes sense if it ca

maybe within the past decade, there was a study done at the ncaa level. they looked at the number of athletic departments at these institutions. were the athletic department the ones doing title ix investigations? were they the ones that were running the sexual assault and domestic violence investigations at the school, or was it independent third parties? a lot of times, it was the f letter department involved in covering it up. title ix would apply. there are aly, number of investigations facing schools right now because of this. title ix should apply. for those of you that don't know, it prohibits any sort of sexual discrimination and institution that receives public funding, all colleges receive some sort of federal funding. whether it is a private institution or public institution. schools under title ix have a duty to report and investigate any allegations of sexual assault, domestic violence. a coach onby having allegedly committed domestic violence, and he is interacting with players, i read one headline that the domestic violence may have occurre

the other school called the ncaa and said can you give us clearance on rick pitino.t investigate anything until the southern district of new york is done with whatever they're doing. maria: do you have a time line in terms of when they're done? are they done at this point? >> i don't know. i know some things are going to control the end of september. nobody from louisville, not myself. i'm not involved in any way. i have no fears about any of that because i know what i've done with college basketball and i know what i believe and my beliefs and doing it the right way and we do it like most copes. by the way, i believe that less than 10% of college basketball is corrupt. i think 90% of college basketball, people do it the right way, their hearts are with the student athletes, they want to help those young men prosper in life. any industry, whether it's wall street, the medical professional, less than 10% does it the wrong way. that's what needs to be cleaned up. maria: thanks so much for joining us, telling us your story. great to see you. rick pitino there. still ahe