Thursday, September 15, 2011

NCAA

When Taylor Branch talks I listen, and here he is on the shame of college sports.
Friday, a weathered idealist at 91, laments the control universities have ceded in pursuit of this money. If television wants to broadcast football from here on a Thursday night, he said, “we shut down the university at 3 o’clock to accommodate the crowds.” He longed for a campus identity more centered in an academic mission.

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