Category Archives: Sports
Love of the Game
In the wake of a scandal involving trinkets, tattoos, and summer jobs, Ohio State hired a new football coach – for $26 mil over six years. Problem solved.
Penn State Investigation
The Night They Tore the Lampposts Down
A ten year old boy was raped and students rioted…because coach Paterno was fired. In a show of balance, they held a candlelight vigil for the victims on Friday. Nothing was burned down.
As I type this I’m watching the Nebraska and Penn State teams gather in prayer before the start of Saturday’s game.
I thought this column by the Washington Post’s Tom Boswell was best.
NBA Class Warfare
The NBA millionaires want the billionaires to pay their fair share – to them. That would be 52.5% of revenues, which is actually less than the 57% they get now. The owners are holding out for a 50-50 split. Meanwhile the ushers, beer, and nacho sellers are stuck with 100% of nothing.
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.
