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President Barack Obama says compensation for college athletes would ''ruin the sense of college sports.'' Obama said in an interview released Saturday that what frustrates him, though, is college coaches, athletic directors and the NCAA making huge amounts of money while an athlete is banished for getting a tattoo or free use of a car. ''That's not fair,'' Obama told The Huffington Post in response to a question about whether college athletes should be compensated because they are money-makers for the NCAA, television stations and advertisers. Obama's niece is Leslie Robinson, daughter of Michelle Obama's brother, Craig Robinson. Obama sat a few rows away from courtside surrounded by an entourage that included his daughter Malia, mother-in-law Marian Robinson, Craig Robinson and other Robinson family members.
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