From the USA Today, "Influx of foreigners presents new challenges for NCAA."

An NCAA study out this week reveals the scope: More than 16,000 foreign athletes dotted NCAA rosters in 2006-07, nearly two-thirds of them in Division I. They accounted for 6.2% of all Division I athletes, up from 2.4% eight years earlier.

With that influx has come challenges.

Players come out of overseas development, or club, programs that often blur the line between amateurism and professionalism, at least as drawn by the NCAA. Taking pay or other compensation beyond expenses is an easily understood no-no. But it can be trickier to identify other violations, such as playing on a team alongside pros.

Which is one of the reasons the NCAA *nolongercalledClearinghouse* moved to address both academic eligibility and amateurism.