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“There’s something really askew here.”

Yes, and this blog has always been very upfront about what it is. It’s called sado-masochism.

People the world over wonder about American university sports. They wonder why professional sports exist at universities at all, let alone run and corrupt them, turn them into places devoted to the exact opposite of what universities are for: the search for truth in a civilized setting. Big-time university sports have made our universities southern Italian villages, dominated by padrones and omertà and mindless violence. All in the name of money.

People who like to live under these conditions – who do nothing to change them and much to celebrate them – are masochists. People at sports universities love their brutal unstable coaches, men who abuse their players and get rewarded for it with million dollar bonuses. They love the freaks-on-steroids players who get hopped up on the weekends and beat people up in bars. They love the local moneybags tyrant who, because he gives tens of millions of dollars to the sports program, controls the team and the university president.

Yes, Joe Nocera is right – there’s something really askew here, and anyone surprised that it features literal as well as figurative rape is an idiot.

Margaret Soltan, December 3, 2011 10:08AM
Posted in: sport

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