Category Archives: Sports
If Notre Dame can’t stay clean, who can?
Why do we keep going along with the charade of big-time college football being anything other than a huge business built on the backs of very human young men, many of whom want nothing to do with school? via If … Continue reading
Why is the U.S. Olympic Committee Tax Exempt?
And USOC paid its senior staff handsomely. A dozen of its top executives made $250,000 or more in 2012, and its CEO, Scott Blackmun, received $965,000. After all that, it still had nearly $100 million in surplus revenue. To be … Continue reading
Is college football a labor of love or just plain labor?
Forty-hour work weeks; 13 or even 14 games; summer schedules; bowl seasons that take away the limited time before spring ball; TV networks; coaches making millions; the risk of brain trauma: players were consulted about none of it. And at … Continue reading
The Billy Goat Curse is a Lie
What’s missing here? Any mention of a curse. Sianis never cursed the Cubs for his ejection. Why would he? He was a Cub fan and his customers were Cub fans. If your whole point for being at the game was … Continue reading
