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Syracuse Orange: NCAA letting players wear patches for social justice

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Syracuse Orange players and others around the country are able to wear patches on their uniforms to support social justice issues.

The NCAA, often criticized for doing the wrong thing, has thankfully approved measures that will enable Syracuse Orange student-athletes and their peers across the United States to express their support of social justice on their uniforms.

According to an article from NCAA Associate Director of Communications Greg Johnson, the NCAA’s playing rules oversight panel has approved rules that allow players in all sports “to wear patches on their uniforms for commemorative and memorial purposes, as well as to support social justice issues.