Last night, Oklahoma State’s star basketball player Marcus Smart went into the stands and shoved a Texas Tech fan. The initial reaction was typical–Smart’s a bad apple, he’s blowing his career being stupid, etc. See Myron Medcalf who claims, “It’s too early to know exactly what happened with Smart and that fan.” So let’s be […]
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Wow. For the first time in the history of college sports, athletes are asking to be represented by a labor union, taking formal steps on Tuesday to begin the process of being recognized as employees,
It is obviously extremely important for the purity of the NCAA to not allow this guy to play college football: A Middle Tennessee freshman who finished five years of active service in the Marines this
It really would be outrageous to pay NCAA players. It’s not like they need it. He is also a product of the extreme poverty that grips millions of families across this country, a child whose mother worked multiple jobs in a vain attempt to make ends meet, a kid who often went days without food […]
Worth remembering in this week of March Madness that the labor, i.e,, the players, receive not one dime of the millions in revenue that the NCAA and schools pull in.
The NCAA, an organization with such open-decision making practices and clear accountability as to provide lessons to the mafia, is forcing a University of Minnesota wrestler to give up his music caree
Heisman winner Johnny Manziel’s class schedule: Johnny Football still finds time to be a college student too, even though the Texas A&M star doesn’t have to be on campus very often for classes. His schedule this semester consists of four online classes in sports management, and he just got done with a series of tests […]
The Big 10 expanding to include athletic powerhouses Maryland and Rutgers makes very little sense. If there’s one thing Big 10 football needs, a conference for which no single person outside the
Dan Wetzel: There is one instance in the Freeh Commission report where Graham Spanier, the disgraced former Penn State president, said enough is enough. One instance when he slammed down his authorita
I’m alternately pleased that he was finally selected and outraged he was denied the honor for which he was obviously overqualified while he was alive. As for who the next sabermetric cause celebre should be with Santo and Blyleven in the Hall, this couldn’t be an easier question: In other sports news, you would think […]