TweetThe Wall Street Journal finds that Alabama is one of several major programs that hands out medical scholarships to players who may be just fine. Some who’ve taken them suspect the practice occurs in order to clear room for better incoming players:
” ‘I’m still kind of bitter,’ said former Alabama linebacker Chuck Kirschman, who took [...]
TweetA D.C.-based interest group — and those are rarely up to much good, right? — is complaining to the Internal Revenue Service that the Bowl Championship Series is violating its tax-exempt status with a whole host of alleged shenanigans.
I’m all in favor of getting to an honest way to determine a college football national champion [...]
TweetRay Ratto sees the last stalwart defenders of the notion of amateurism attempt a desperate fling at curtailing the commercial enterprise of college football, and reckons how it might end:
“And in these brazenly Darwinian times, with colleges across the country no longer even trying to hide that the only true motivation for their athletic departments [...]
TweetOn the same day that Reggie Bush was informed he would be stripped of the 2005 Heisman Trophy, the agent for a Turkish club basketball team claims that he paid Kentucky recruit Enes Kanter more than $100,000.
The NCAA is still investigating top college football programs for reported player involvement with agents, and the ultra-successful recruiter in [...]
TweetThe tabloidish headline sums up the verdicts stemming from Monday night’s thrilling 33-30 victory by 3rd-ranked Boise State over No. 10 Virginia Tech, and the national implications after the very first week of the season.
All of which makes the arguments about college football — and the dubious BCS system designed to determine a “national champion” [...]
TweetAlways love over-the-top historical references to major happenings in the sports world, and Brigham Young’s announcement Tuesday that it was leaving the Mountain West Conference qualified as a rather large event in the college football empire. I’ll let Salt Lake Tribune columnist Gordon Monson take it from there:
“Otto von Bismarck would have loved what BYU pulled [...]
TweetDan Wetzel says that the solons of the BCS have only themselves to blame should Boise State waltz through a soft schedule.
The irony here is that if the Broncos, ranked No. 3 in the preseason AP poll, can defeat 10th-ranked Virginia Tech in their Labor Day season opener, they are in fantastic shape to benefit [...]
Tweet• At Extracurriculars I spent far too much time and too many words on the sorry sagas of Jason Whitlock, Jay Mariotti and sportswriters who insist on becoming the story. I’ll leave it to Deadspin to put the proper shine on the self-parodic figure that Whitlock has become:
“Jason Whitlock is Richard Hofstadter, if Ponderosa were Columbia [...]
TweetA couple of links roundups have been posted on two of my sites while the work of researching for writing purposes goes on:
• Selected journalism/media/web finds on entrepreneurial journalism, trust and bias in the news media and adverse uses of the Web can be found at Ink-Drained Kvetch.
• The origins and future of college athletics [...]
Tweet• This morning on Extracurriculars I posted “Everybody’s playing ‘Expansionology,’ “ entailing all the rumors, conjecture and scenarios about major college athletic conference realignment. And why all this speculation is so much fun.
• On Twitter I posted a link to a story about the Obama Administration’s decision to make Title IX sports activists very, very happy [...]
