Listen up.
Until Hillary’s in power, you’ll never rustle up enough guys to do this. President Obama is a major jock, and he sets the tone. Forget it.
And … you know what? Forget it when Hillary takes over too. When that happens, the guys will get even more jockish. In reaction.
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Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
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Notes of a Neophyte
April 11th, 2014 at 8:50AM
Last time I saw Shabazz Napier, he seemed pretty happy. The more it goes, the more I think that (1) the “exploitation” issue is real but it’s sort of an aspect of the unpaid internship issue (and the Northwestern case is addressing it); (2)the matter of coaches’ pay is just economic rationality, a symptom of underlying problems; (3) the race issue in college athletics, while obviously salient for some, is basically a side issue that perhaps impels action but almost certainly makes a sensible resolution of matters less likely; (4) the real question always comes down to, “How – or at least to what extent – should this nonsense be a priority of a university?”
April 13th, 2014 at 10:47PM
Unfamiliar with separation of powers, are we?
April 13th, 2014 at 11:52PM
Derek: No.
April 14th, 2014 at 5:11PM
Really? You say so, but a rudimentary understanding of separation of powers undermines your post. Congress is not holding hearings on college sports because of Obama’s love of sports? Jesus, the stupid is powerful in this one.
This post might literally be be most obtuse thing written about American political life in the last five years, and this is a world in which Bill Kristol still publishes a magazine.
Seriously: John Boehner’s House of Reps is not holding hearings on the NCAA because: Obama? And the a Democrats in the Senate are similarly not holding such hearings because: Obama?
Stick to poetry.
Dcat