Shouldn’t Republicans or Democrats or somebody be outraged that “between 2001 and 2005, seven tax-exempt bowls received $21.6 million in government aid,” and that “like any government revenue stream, the one flowing to the bowl committees is guarded by an army of high-paid lobbyists?”
From a review in the Boston Globe of Varsity Green: A Behind the Scenes Look at Culture and Corruption in College Athletics, by Mark Yost.
March 20th, 2010 at 12:33PM
The “somebody” the columnist is looking for is probably a libertarian, but such individuals have their hands full with bank bailouts and transportation pork and health insurance restructuring right now, that is, if they’re not hiding out in Galt’s Gulch.