Posted: June 23, 2010
I wish we could import some of the outrage against the vuvuzela into more serious sports matters, such as banning of the tomahawk chop...
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Posted: March 20, 2010
NOT ONLY did the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team carry a 72-game winning streak into the Division 1 tournament, it also is bringing along a 100 percent graduation rate. In fact, all four top-seeded teams in the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division 1 women’s tournament, which also includes Stanford, Tennessee, ...
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Posted: March 16, 2010
Until the NCAA bans the likes of Maryland, Texas, Nevada Las Vegas, and Kentucky, the concept of "student-athlete" is corrupted beyond repair. At these schools, the athletes are semipros who should be paid...
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Posted: February 20, 2010
AS INSPIRING as the Winter Olympics are for athletes who sizzle down slopes and pirouette around rinks, the moments that most move me are the ones where frosty rivals break the ice and millisecond finishes do not set off an avalanche of bitterness.
My gold medal for good sports in Vancouver, one barely covered in the ...
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Posted: December 11, 2009
FOR WEEKS, frenzied sports broadcasters argued wildly over whether Alabama, Florida or Texas were the best football teams in the land. Imagine the media buildup to the bowl season if the bowl teams were rearranged on graduation success rates. “This is ESPN’s College Game Day! The big question of this season is ‘Who will face ...
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Posted: November 25, 2009
GO NORTHEASTERN! I cheer you for cutting football. Your final touchdown was a score for sanity.
I know you are not happy about the official announcement yesterday. As Northeastern University athletic director Peter Roby told the Globe, “This is a very emotional decision. I’m sure people are going to be angry and disappointed and confused.’’ But ...
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Posted: November 14, 2009
THE LATEST reason to pay major college basketball and football players came this week in USA Today’s update of the salaries of college head coaches. The newspaper found that the average pay for head coaches at the top 120 competing universities has risen 46 percent over the last three years, to $1.36 million a year. ...
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Posted: November 3, 2009
EVEN WITH an enfeebled Willie Wood sitting right behind him in a wheelchair this week, NFL chief Roger Goodell still refused to acknowledge the damage football is causing to players’ brains. For me, this was sickening.
Wood, who played safety for the Green Bay Packers in the 1960s, was one of my childhood heroes. I still ...
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Posted: October 17, 2009
ON THE whole, I was glad to see Rush Limbaugh dropped from a group trying to buy the St. Louis Rams. The rest of the owners in the 32-team National Football League ultimately decided they would have been nuts to have a race-baiting investor in a business where two-thirds of the players are black and ...
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Posted: October 13, 2009
IN A perfect world of public health, millions of parents would blitz football fields with the Hall of Fame fury of Ray Nitschke and Dick Butkus, storming sidelines to haul their precious babies away from bone-crunching tragedy. That is what should have happened after the National Football League’s own study found retired players age 30 ...
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