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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

LONG article on college sports...

... in the Indianapolis Star, which I'm still reading... So why don't I blog my reading of it?

Somewhat lame title --

COLLEGES PLAY, PUBLIC PAYS


-- but it does do the trick of summarizing with a certain degree of wit the content of the piece (I've read about half of it).

The occasion for the piece is the recent season of bigtime college football games, but the writer really wants to focus on that pesky tax exemption everybody's been talking about lately. Hold on...