And our winner: ENTRY, OWNER R64 R32 S16 E8 F4 NCG CHAMPION PPR TOTAL PCT 1 gfunk6000 2, gfunk6000 200 220 200 240 320 320 Louisville 0 1500 100.0 2 carlericson 1, carlericson 220 220 120 240 320 320 Louisville 0 1440 99.9 3 lannisters, krummews 220 220 160 160 160 320 Louisville 0 1240 98.6 4 drupdrap, coyote56 […]
Tag: the NCAA cartel
Which perfectly sums up the lunacy of big time collegiate sports in the US. Most of us know the story now, and it appears that plenty of administrators at Rutgers knew the full story in late November.
Nocera with yet more good stuff on the NCAA Cartel: It was amusing this week to watch Emmert trot out “the collegiate model” as he was confronted with the reality of the “one and done” freshma
Josh Eidelson adds an important angle to the recent coverage of the exploitation of NCAA athletes by writers such as Taylor Branch and Joe Nocera. Eidelson explores the nascent attempts to unionize athletes at D-I schools. Athletes have talked about this since the 90s, even threatening to walk out on the 1995 NCAA Tournament. That […]
It’s almost enough to make me think that the Noble Concept of Amateur Student-Athletes is just a massive exploitative scam. When I say the “NCAA’s” values, this also means the
In the wake of a predictably dreary NCAA title game, a couple points. First of all, I’m sure that BCS apologists will see Alabama’s win as a vindication of a broken system, but it’s
I’m fascinated enough by David Stern blocking a trade to engage in some rare NBA-related blogging. A few points: I don’t really know enough to make this judgment, so correct me if I’m wrong, but is it even obvious that the Lakers won this trade? Trading their big men to build around stars at the […]
Jon Chait argues once again that anyone who sees generating massive amounts of revenue from “student”-athletes while denying them most of the benefits as exploitative must hate college spo
Pierce’s follow-up to the must-read Taylor Branch article is, of course, outstanding. The first key point is that amateurism is an empty fraud, a transparent mask for exploitation and class priv
Yesterday LGM’s palatial capital region offices received their copy of Corey Robin’s The Reactionary Mind. If I understand correctly, one of the book’s main arguments is that attempts to distinguish between a good, reasonable Burkean conservatism and a nasty Randite/Calhounite/Reaganite variety don’t really fly. I thought of this when I read this emission from moderate, […]
It’s difficult to summarize Taylor Branch’s Atlantic story on the NCAA, or to find any specific parts to excerpt; basically, just read the whole thing. Branch ends on a relatively optimist
Chances that I would pay the faculty discount rate of $38 to watch the Kentucky Wildcats host the Central Michigan Chippewas at Commonwealth Stadium? Decent enough, until I read the following: Q: Does