After years of back-and-forth regarding the morality of universities sticking their students through the meat grinder of collegiate sports while the schools themselves are the lone profiteers, the NCAA finally relented and gave their student-athletes a way to make some extra money: Win the lottery.

Mike Eynon, offensive lineman for the Ohio Bobcats, is the first such student-athlete to take advantage of this supplemental income bonus after matching five numbers in Tuesday night’s Ohio Mega Millions drawing, earning a cool quarter-million in the process.

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