Quote:

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”--Martin Luther King

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Essay of the Day

A duh, no kidding but righteous analysis of college sports by Anthony DiMaggio, for CounterPunch.

He argues that college sports unions aren't what's needed. How about let's abolish college sports as expensive mega-businesses that are failing student-athletes, ordinary students, and taxpayers?

His stats say just 23 of 228 Division 1 programs turned a profit last year.

An extremely lucid piece, but the reality is that unionization, whatever level of contentment or discomfort it brings to folks on all sides of the debate, is more likely to happen than outright abolition.

Abolition doesn't check greed. Never has. Not even the 13th Amendment did that wholly.

TS

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