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Special Report | The Shame of College Sports: December 18, 2011

Sun, 12/18/2011 - 20:29 — Dave Culver
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Arts & Culture

Something must be done to deal with the criminal activity and other scandals.

4 Items including:

  • The Shame of College Sports
  • College sports needs a government intervention
  • PSU culture explained away Sandusky
  • We Can Live Without Leagues

David Culver, ed., Evergreene Digest

Randy Bish

The Shame of College Sports, Taylor Branch, Atlantic

  • A litany of scandals in recent years have made the corruption of college sports constant front-page news. We profess outrage each time we learn that yet another student-athlete has been taking money under the table. But the real scandal is the very structure of college sports, wherein student-athletes generate billions of dollars for universities and private companies while earning nothing for themselves.
  • Here, a leading civil-rights historian makes the case for paying college athletes—and reveals how a spate of lawsuits working their way through the courts could destroy the NCAA.
  • College sports needs a government intervention

College sports needs a government intervention, Albert R. Hunt, Bloomberg News

  • Sometime must be done to deal with the criminal activity and other scandals.
  • PSU culture explained away Sandusky
  • We Can Live Without Leagues

PSU culture explained away Sandusky, Brett J. Blackledge, Associated Press / Johnstown (PA) Tribune-Democrat
The fact that so few say they knew is all anyone needs to know about the insular culture that surrounds Penn State, a university cloaked in so much secrecy, in large part, because it is exempt from the state’s open records law, and a football program that has prided itself on handling its indiscretions internally and quietly, without outside interference.

We Can Live Without Leagues, Mark Heisler, TruthDig
They were richer than we were when this started and they’ll be richer than we are when it’s over.
 

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