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Sunday, February 04, 2007

Mess With My Toy...
Make An Angry Boy !



'State Rep. Chapin Rose, a [...] University of Illinois [graduate], introduced a bill yesterday in the Illinois House to put a tax of 10% on all events in football and basketball that the NCAA gets revenues from.

He said that the NCAA doesn't deserve the tax exempt status that they are currently receiving. "They have abandoned their educational mission"...

"If they spent more time on their on own house and their graduation rates instead of worrying about university symbols they would be better off," Rose said. U of I has been at odds with the NCAA since a ruling last April. The NCAA ruled then that U of I couldn't host any type of post season events because of Chief Illiniwek's use. The use of Chief Illiniwek was categorized as "hostile and abusive."'



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