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Focuses on the lawsuit that Kent Waldrep filed against Texas Christian University seeking workers' compensation for an injury he suffered in a football game in 1974. The 1997 ruling from a jury in Texas against Waldrep; Why Waldrep and lawyer Donald Loria believe that a college football player should be regarded as an employee; Whether college athletes should be redefined as a labor force entitled to basic employee rights.

Reports about a jury ruling that Kent Walderp, a former Texas Christian University athlete paralyzed during a football game, was not an employee of the school and therefore was not entitled to worker's compensation benefits for his injury. Far-reaching implications of the case; Arguments by Walderp and his lawyers in the trials.