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>> go live >> We are live outside great field and the White Sox hope to advance in the postseason.

A proposed overhaul of college athletics passes the U.S.

Senate.

What it could mean for for universities and athletes.

And the federal government is taking aim at an opioid-like drug.

You can find at the gas station what to know about the impact of 7, 0, H in the Chicago area.

>> First off tonight, the Cook County State's attorney is partnering with the state of Connecticut in preparation to defend the county's assault weapons ban before the U.S.

Supreme Court.

>> Each jurisdiction has ability to determine if these weapons should be readily available to the public.

That's what's at stake in this case.

We do not have to look very far to know that span works.

>> Eileen O'Neill Burke has named for attorneys in her office, will also work with a team of legal scholars and Supreme Court experts leading up to oral arguments in early December.

The case Viramontes versus Cook County is about whether the county's ban on assault weapons is constitutional.

It's been in place since 1993 and was amended in 2013 to honor Blair hold teen killed by gun violence while shielding friends from gunfire on a CTA bus.

Workers at Obama Foundation and presidential center say they're unionizing nearly 4 months after the center opened in Jackson Park Council.

31 says the new union will include 250 people across Obama foundation operations, including at the foundation's DC offices in an open letter.

The workers say they support the foundation's vision and mission but have faced challenges, they say include heavy workloads, inadequate benefits, insufficient support for management and high employee turnover.

spokesperson for the Obama Center says, quote, We're deeply committed to the fundamental right of workers to organize and make their voices heard as members of our staff explore union representation.

We approach this process with immense gratitude for their contributions.

Deep respect for unions and and sincere commitment to working collaboratively with our partners in labor.

Feel the momentum that has been the Chicago White Sox Logan this season and fans definitely seem to be feeling it today as the South Siders continue their postseason run, they took games one and 2 in Cleveland and return home.

One win away from heading to the American League Championship series.

It would be their first trip to the ALCS since 2005 when they last won the World Series.

Now the Sox may be trailing 5 to 3 right now in the 7th inning.

But there is still time to turn things around.

Our joint Hernandez joins us now from outside Rate Field where she spent the day with fans.

Joanna, what's the energy been like there?

>> Brent, is the energy has been electric.

I mean, it's a sold out game.

You can literally hear people screaming from inside the stadium.

I spoke with people who traveled from Mexico, others who've been season ticket holders for years.

One woman sharing that she had her wedding reception during one of the games.

I mean, these are real diehard White Sox fans.

And I got to feel some of that excitement right here in the parking lot as fans gather to tailgate ahead of the game.

>> They're always the underdogs and they're the ones that people in Chicago.

Forget talk about the North Siders and we're all like, but there's another TV here.

>> We have a chance.

Finally, if really good, you know, the visor really, it's up there.

You know, we're going to have a lot of time.

Enjoy the vines.

There's a lot of people out here right now.

have so much I missed it.

I miss They've always been a pie, a part of my television viewing like between April and October.

I don't watch TV much by at night.

since the Duke Allen era.

>> I mean, there was such a diverse crowd this morning in one corner, you have people cooking, got a mask on and the and the other.

You have people cooking old fashion, hot dogs and burgers all coming together to cheer for the same team.

The reality is a team has been through some really, really bad years.

So this post season carries many different emotions for the fans and it echoes of 2005.

It's the last time the team won a World Series and for some fans here, those memories are personal, including for one fan who says he was here when the Sox made their championship run.

>> I was You were there.

>> Called me out of school to 3rd grade 3rd How was that when you remember about that time?

I remember the White Sox winning a game and I got showered and beer.

I remember it.

And the stadium one crazy every single time he threw a strike.

That was awesome.

>> Now there's another piece of history fans are talking about.

If they win today, it will be the first time they've clinched a postseason series at home since 19.

0, 6, That's 120 years ago.

That's why the current playoff run feels so special to longtime fans.

I spoke with another fan who goes by Socks.

Chick.

She says she started working at the stadium when she was 14 years old over the years that grew into a love for the team and eventually a platform of her own.

This season alone, she followed the Sox to 6 different games.

>> I got by more different parents.

This for different White Sox players.

Parents follow me social media because 2 of them came out of my seat and told me that I say what you do and thank you my side.

>> Receipts show support and energy great.

They're getting their just they change some players are we need to be changed.

And this new coach is great.

no complaints to keep it coming.

You got to represent pope.

Had the vote, represents the White Sox and I've become years.

I've been waiting for these winds like this.

What did it feel like when the poll basically was like I'm a White Sox fan to remember that feeling?

>> Yes, it was exorbitant.

I still got to fill in all the fans still have the field and that's why we like this.

>> Now some fans believe that it can pull its been.

Pope Leo's prayers has been given this team a boost.

But whatever it is, it's been so refreshing to see fans come together and packed the stadium again.

Now, if they win, they head to the ALCS and face either the Yankees or the Rays.

If they lose, they try again tomorrow at home for game 4 against the guardians and again, whatever happens, I can tell you that many of the Sox fans are happy reporting live outside the walks, White Sox stadium.

I'm John Hernandez.

Back to you.

Brand is.

>> Thanks so much, Joe.

maybe the pope put in a word.

But the big guy 15.

All right.

Thank you.

Joanna.

Up next, what to know about a controversial bill that could upend college sports?

>> Chicago tonight is made possible in part why the Alexander and John Nichols family.

The Pope Brothers Foundation.

And the support of these donors.

>> College sports teams are facing higher costs and more athlete transfers, signs of a system getting out of hand or simply players exercising their rights.

That's part of the debate over the Protect College Sports Act which passed the U.S.

Senate last week with bipartisan support and now heads to the House in recent years.

The NCAA has reached settlements in wide-ranging antitrust lawsuits.

Opening the door for player payments in boosting economic competition between schools and states.

Now all eyes are on Congress where lawmakers are looking to establish national standard on issues like eligibility and compensation.

Joining us now is Henderson, clinical assistant professor of sport management at Loyola University.

Thanks for joining us now with happy to be here.

what are some specific antitrust concerns that are unique to sports leagues?

>> Great.

So all antitrust law permeates all of sports.

I think one thing that we might not realize most people don't realize when they watch sports that the reason that the structures of professional sports look the way they do trades players getting caught drafts are so unique, right?

No account and finishes college and get drafted by KPMG.

That's all the result labor unions collective bargaining agreements that they enter into with their respective sports leagues.

College athletes are employees.

They can't unionize.

So a lot of things that we see in professional sports that we we might think get imported into college sports don't always happen because these leagues monopolies as is the NCAA antitrust law really place a heavy hand and how they operate.

What record as the NCAA have so far in antitrust lawsuits.

It's been a rough past 5 years for the NCAA.

>> Really stemming from a case in Twenty-twenty Alston v NCAA, which was limited in scope.

But it was a 9, 0, loss at the Supreme Court about the restrictions that they can have on the amount of scholarship athletes can her what a full cost of attendance scholarship looks like.

Since then, the NCAA is continued to lose.

Most notably there restrictions on transfers used to be athletes would have one penalty free transfer, significant case ultimately ended their ability to enforce transfer restrictions at all.

So at the completion of every season, athletes are eligble eligible.

The change teams whenever they want.

Subsequently the NCAA last kind of their longstanding are they didn't lose in court, but they had a settlement that ultimately ended their long-standing restriction of college is directly paying athletes themselves.

What a student want to want to make a transfer.

And and what are some the complications that come along with that?

>> Great.

So there's a myriad of reasons that student athletes want to transfer in non-revenue sports sports that don't bring in tremendous amounts of television rights, money.

>> Or you know, tickets to sell the fans.

Student athletes in those sports are not usually earning money so they might transfer because they're not getting enough playing time.

Perhaps they want to go somewhere.

That's a better fit academically.

They want to move back closer to home.

There's so many reasons the same that any normal student would want to transfer but when we look at football and basketball players who now are making 6 figures and at times even 7 figures annually for their participation college.

Sports teams, the reasons are usually are a bit more financial that if I go out and put by services on the open market, there's going to be a bidding war between schools for how much they want to pay me to play next season.

And so a lot of top athletes in football, basketball transfer financial reasons.

And then of course, they are students.

Right?

So then you've got to be sure that like they're on their academics for transferring as well to that other university.

Because isn't the point to get a degree?

>> Absolutely.

And that is a big concern and something that we haven't seen because all of these changes are relatively new.

>> But yes, student athletes who transfer notorious your credits don't always transfer even if you do.

Some schools have residency requirements that you have to complete 2 years there.

So many students who are making multi multiple transfers might ultimately sacrifice their ability to have a timely graduation.

>> In a Supreme Court case on player compensation into Double-A v Alston.

As you mentioned, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said, quote, traditions alone cannot justify the NC Double A's decision to build a massive money raising enterprise on the backs of student athletes who are not fairly compensated.

The NCAA is not above the law.

What message does this opinion center, the NCAA?

So this opinion back in 2020 was a little bit of the catalyst in part, kind of in conjunction with some state legislative efforts.

>> To open the door for, I think what a lot of people now known as nil, the ability for athletes to cash in on their name image and likeness and the way that any social media influencer cut an athlete could have a brand a following endorse products.

But ultimately that case opened the door for athlete compensation.

Now things change significantly.

Those endorsement contracts, clever boosters and clever schools found those as a vehicle to pay athletes for their athletic performance.

Not necessarily just a used car commercial, but more pay for play.

The Protect College Sports Act.

Now this would cap payments to athletes 50 million dollars per school annually.

Different schools are going to hit different levels you know, some schools are going to run into that.

That ceiling sooner than others >> in a letter to Senators Durbin and Duckworth, athletic directors from the 13 Division, one universities in Illinois said, quote, these improvements would provide student athletes with greater financial opportunity today while reinforcing the educational and health protections that help support them long after their playing careers end.

How would this cap change player compensation?

So I think that there would be more money in the total pot in the short term.

All those schools currently through.

>> There is a current cap, but there's a lot of ways to circumvent the cap through endorsement contracts with school apparel companies or other vehicles that probably a bit too much to get into the weeds into right now on on this show.

But ultimately the compensation capped would be elevated but would still restrict what schools are able to pay athletes, their schools right now that are far exceeding that number between their football and basketball teams combined.

>> Are there any examples of Congress regulating industries like this?

Any It seems unprecedented.

And I think that that's part of the opposition of this bill.

When you look at who's targeted Senator introduced an amendment that would effectively limit coaching composite compensation.

The impetus of this bill is exactly what those conferences set schools are facing massive financial pressure to remain competitive in the field athletics programs that can win on the field and ultimately serve as a marketing arm for the university.

However, when presented with the opportunity to cap coaching compensation right at a pretty significant figure, nothing over 5 million dollars.

Congress almost unanimous or not unanimously.

But Congress rejected that amendment right.

The group of individuals interested in capping earnings on seems to be the players themselves, right?

There's 20 or so head coaches who are making over 10 million dollars this year, right?

The only restriction seemed to be on the athletes the act would preempt state laws would have states previously done to try and regulate college sports states have done myriad of different things such as trying to shield their states from NCAA investigations.

Ncaa sanctions.

>> Ncaa effectively enforcement of their rules and regulations.

This would stop states from kind of trying to game what the NCAA can and can't enforce if you doesn't pass.

How would you expect college sports to change in the coming years?

I think college sports right now is bit of chaotic time.

Athletes are transferring schools are paying insane amounts of money to stay competitive without this act.

I think that we're going to see a lot of schools may be make a decision not to compete in division.

One athletics, perhaps maybe moving to a division 3 model, more focused on academics, then athletics themselves.

There could be implications where men's and women's tennis teams get cut or smaller non-revenue sports ultimately don't have the funding in order to have the money required to fund some of these more lucrative sports are a lot of implications.

Either way.

It sounds like no.

Henderson, thank you so much for joining us.

Thanks for having me.

>> Illinois health providers brace for a ban on opioid-like substance is.

Health officials and addiction specialists are sounding the alarm on a highly potent and addictive drug 7, Oh, H isn't opioid-like substance that can be found in gas stations.

Bait shops and CBD shops.

It comes in the form of tablets.

Energy shots or gummies.

This summer, the U.S.

Drug Enforcement Administration proposed temporarily listing products containing high levels of 7, Oh, H a schedule one which would make it illegal to sell some addiction.

Recovery centers say it means they're bracing for an influx of patients in withdrawal.

Joining us now with more is still at a very co-founder and executive vice president of bright side recovery in Addiction, Recovery Clinic specializing in opioid use disorders with locations in Northbrook, North Aurora, Olympia Fields, Rockford and Peoria.

Thank you for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

So what is 708, or 7, very great question because it gets confusing.

Both so a and 7, 0, come from a plant that's called creative.

>> Creighton is typically used as a leaf and the keys and stuff like that.

But it has a very, very tiny amount of 7, Oh, h like points or 5% so well does provide a little bit of mild opioid relief.

It's nothing major, but what's happened is people have now synthesize did compressed condensed.

It.

And now they've given a concentrated version you know, 100% in these pills, powders and stuff like that, which makes it more more effective than morphine.

People identify what are what are they finding?

How do you find It's very simple.

I mean, when you go into a store that has it, they if unfortunately used the the e-cigarette strategy and stuff like that.

So it's God fun, names, colors, flavors, all that kind of stuff comes and tablets.

Powders, things of that nature.

So it's a very, very attractive in that frame where really up using that kind of like sort thing to take a look at this this.

Yes, you know, it's a Labor were not taking bad because record and it's here.

It can't be bad.

>> What have you learned or what are what are from patients about how they're falling into using it?

Well, that's the scary part is a lot of people don't know what they're actually getting into.

You know, they're being offered it.

They there on And then some of story like creating here, try this.

Some are going in this like, hey, listen, looking for pain use this.

But its also being marketed as other things like energy drinks and things of that matter.

So it's it's really been a lot of misinformation, which is cause people to start using it.

And then once they started the ramp up is very, very quickly.

Your medical director at Brightside says that the number of new patients who are seeking help for 7, 0, H is now outpacing your fentanyl.

tells more about what your clinics are seeing and what you all think is contributing to this It's been very, very scary.

I mean, we started seeing patients over a year ago.

They were starting to enter a facility that word using 7, 0, h and a bright side.

We've actually seen it's a little bit more 9 out of every 10 people that come in our 7, 0, H. I mean, that's heard.

I mean, it's just just drastic.

I mean, we never see that kind of spike.

And that's been actually escalating over time.

And as the schedule one started happening, people started actually looking for help.

And that's the reason why we're seeing that increase.

Are you hearing anything similar from from colleagues in this in this industry or other organizations that help with recovery?

Yes, and no.

I mean, some are yes, seeing its or not.

I think it's just more of how people identify it.

The challenge with 7 wages you don't typically see in the direct screen.

So if you do a urine drug screen, it will appear because it actually has different metabolites that are being attracted being picked up on the cup and stuff.

So a lot of people are saying like, why can't treat you because you're not showing any signs of an opioid.

And the U.S.

they're being turned away from treatment.

And that's another reason why would want to have this conversation is I want to make sure that everyone knows that this is something we all need to treat.

That's another complicating factor.

It sounds like are there concerns that 7, 0, H could potentially be the next wave of of, you know, the opioid epidemic.

Could we see something similar?

>> that's on Well, it actually isn't two-fold.

One, you have the aspect that you're increasing.

The amount of people that are doing 7 weeks of the 7 uh people once it becomes scheduled and then actually goes through.

>> They have a lot of people that are going to be looking for.

And really there are 2 options.

One, they can go to treatment.

They can go out and find something like fentanyl.

And that's what I'm really worried about.

I'm worried about the fact that people are going to start looking for the alternative and they're going fentanyl.

And then we're going to see these deaths rise associate with those will be to its opioid because once you do that, you're going in a whole new level of opioid.

You actually yourself filled, visited like 50 or so vape shops.

Why did you want to do that?

And what did you find?

>> Yeah.

So when we started seeing this, you know, bright been a part of this.

The opioid epidemic ever ever since 2015.

So we've seen the opioid crisis.

We've seen the federal federal growth.

And when we started hearing about the 7 and wage, we're like, OK, let's now that know what's coming now.

We know it's here.

Let's do something proactive to say.

What can we do to get these people help when people go to vape shop they no longer have it, shops they have nothing to give them like someone walk in and say and they're going get nothing.

So what we want to do arm them with a bill, least for them to find treatment, given the material I found, a lot of shops were very, very proactive about They stop buying it and they were very, very welcoming to essentially this kind of material and to help their clients and help their patients.

Patrons.

Yeah, 7, Oh, H work with what's what's the high that people are getting?

And then of course it's going to turn bad at some point, right like West, how they impacted the high is very similar to opioids.

>> So you get the same kind of high.

If you jump in and help you, it's going that same kind of high.

The challenge is if you take too much of it, it's going to have the negative effects of an opioid as well, suppress breathing and then potentially die and overdose.

The good news is, though, if someone does overdose, no trucks the shot that can be used to bring people out it typically is something that can be used just as we get them out of that.

That's the kind of feeling that they're going get no tax on different from the lotto.

the Norwell it's it's it's the same thing.

It's no Texan is actually the name of the shot not get.

Thank you, Mark got it.

Okay.

What then?

This treatment for 7 which look like treatment is very similar to any.

So there any other opioid.

Typically it's a combination of medically assisted treatment, something with like Suboxone or methadone as being some sort medication and then counter that with counseling as well.

The Illinois just for what it's worth, Illinois Department of Public Health tells us in a statement that the department has actually seen a decrease in slash 7, Oh, h fatalities over the past 5 years.

>> And viewers can see the rest of the IDPH statement on our website.

But what is what's your reaction to that from?

I think combination a couple things.

I mean it where a different world now or Narcan is easily accessible.

So I think you're going to have the reduction associate with that as well.

But I think also you're talking about, you know, sometimes the drug test is not going to be picking up some of the stuff that's in it.

But once again, I'm here worried about more about what's going to happen next.

You know, when people actually start looking for a supplement, something too, get out of 7, 0, h they're gonna look for fentanyl and that's where you're going to start seeing those opioid deaths rising, which we want to stop.

All right.

Just a couple seconds left.

But the role of clinics like yours, you know, in the weeks ahead, whether or not DA decides to schedule be there.

I mean, really, truly, when someone calls and needs help getting them in right away.

I mean, there's even grants out there that can help someone if they call be in immediately can fill out a very bright side recovery.

Thank you for joining us.

Thank you so much.

And that is our show for this Wednesday night.

Join us tomorrow night at 5, 30 10.

>> Now for all of us here at Chicago tonight, I'm Brandis Friedman, thank you for watching.

Stay healthy and safe and have a good night.

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