Category Archives: football
NCAA Gone Wild
Only the NCAA could make you feel sorry for today’s self-centered elite athletes.
The self-centered ruling body of college sports made a late hit on Ohio State wide receiver DeVier Posey by adding 5 more games to an earlier suspension for trading trinkets for tattoos. The latest suspension was for earning $728 “too much” at his summer job.
Taylor Branch has a great piece in the Atlantic that shows how the NCAA wormed its way into a position to conspire with big-time college coaches, athletic directors, and presidents to deny so-called “student athletes” their property rights to the share of the wealth they help generate.
Rebuttal
Nancy Pelosi is offended that Republicans won’t tear themselves away from the game tonight to complain about Obama’s speech.
The President’s Speech
It’s settled. The president’s latest big jobs speech will not be ignored in favor of the Republican debate on Wednesday. It will be ignored in favor of the NFL opener between the Packers and the Saints on Thursday.
Divestiture
In the most lopsided trinket deal since the Indians sold Manhattan, Jim “The Vest” Tressel lost his 3.5 million dollar a year job as head coach of the The Ohio State University amateur football enterprise.
Tressel was tasked with policing the economic activities of the concern’s players. By fiat, the players’ incomes are restricted to the value of athletic scholarships plus bonuses, paid in trinkets. An uncertain number of players chose to liquidate those bonuses at a tattoo exchange. Others may be guilty of capturing market value for their services in the form of discounted auto sales. Having learned of the unauthorized economic activity, Tressel failed to report it to the controlling authorities. He was dismissed.
