I am currently reading an anthology, "The Best American Sportswriting 2012" (available a few weeks ago for $1.99 as a Kindle "Deal of the Day"!), and included was a story called "The Shame of College Sports" by Taylor Branch. This is a very lengthy article that appeared in the August 2011 issue of The Atlantic. While it is a long article, I would highly recommend it to anyone who is a fan of sports, and, particularly, college sports.
It goes to great length exposing what a hypocritical and self-serving organization the NCAA is, how they have used the oxymoronic term student-athlete for their own selfish purposes, and how the very last people they care about and serve are all of the student-athletes themselves. It may make you feel just a bit different whenever the NCAA airs all of those cloying commercials during the NCAA basketball tournament this coming March.
Check it out here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/308643/
It goes to great length exposing what a hypocritical and self-serving organization the NCAA is, how they have used the oxymoronic term student-athlete for their own selfish purposes, and how the very last people they care about and serve are all of the student-athletes themselves. It may make you feel just a bit different whenever the NCAA airs all of those cloying commercials during the NCAA basketball tournament this coming March.
Check it out here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/308643/
