Orwell and March Madness
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1. Calipari is loathsome, and UK's embrace of him has made me lose virtually all respect for that program.
2. He is not a hero, a man just being honest about what's sub rosa everywhere else.
3. College athletics really does need to be re-thought.
4. I love, love, love college hoops, even in its current degraded state; but, given the opportunity to flip a switch and get rid of big-time college sports, I'd do so. As it is now, it's a corrupting influence on most universities.
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1. Calipari is loathsome, and UK's embrace of him has made me lose virtually all respect for that program.
2. He is not a hero, a man just being honest about what's sub rosa everywhere else.
3. College athletics really does need to be re-thought.
4. I love, love, love college hoops, even in its current degraded state; but, given the opportunity to flip a switch and get rid of big-time college sports, I'd do so. As it is now, it's a corrupting influence on most universities.
posted by Winston Smith at
2:21 PM
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He is not a hero, a man just being honest about what's sub rosa everywhere else
Isn't that, in other contexts, a shorthand definition of "hero?" Sure, it's easy for him in that he gets the rewards of a successful program, but he also gets the generalized contempt of self-righteous sports writers and other NCAA officials and coaches. All for exploiting a system that only exists so that the NCAA and NBA can extract a bunch of free labor from men who have no interest in a college education.
"Isn't that, in other contexts, a shorthand definition of 'hero'?"
Uh...is the answer...no?
Hi Winston,
Not the right forum for this, but too good not to share:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/opinion/sunday/a-quantum-theory-of-mitt-romney.html?_r=1&hp
LOL pretty damn funny LC.
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