POSTED BY MARTIN KICH It is very easy to exaggerate the importance of small things. No matter how obsessive one is about details, something can always slip through the proverbial cracks. That said, the following oversight does seem indicative to me of a broader issue. Writing for Esquire, Matt Miller has reported: “Former reality TV…
BY HANK REICHMAN Yesterday I posted to this blog the text of a letter from UC Berkeley professors Michael Burawoy and Celeste Langan, co-chairs of the UC Berkeley Faculty Association (BFA), a partner organization of the AAUP, calling for a new probe of alleged abuses in the university’s intercollegiate football program. The request came after…
BY HANK REICHMAN A series of highly publicized sexual harassment scandals is not the only embarrassment facing the University of California at Berkeley. The university’s athletic program is also in the spotlight for abuse. A report yesterday by the San Francisco Chronicle revealed that a 2014 inquiry clearing coaches and trainers of employing abusive and…
Writing for CapCon: Michigan Capital Confidential, Tom Gantert reports that Bay de Noc College on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has announced that it will be initiating an athletics program despite—or, rather, because of—a budget deficit that has not been resolved despite layoffs of two faculty and nine staff. The college “will add men’s and women’s…
Nicholas Piotrowicz, a sportwriter for the Toledo Blade, has provided an analysis of the high cost of competing at the bottom end of Division 1 intercollegiate athletics and, in particular, the FBS division of college football. The article is titled “MAC Schools’ Cost of Athletics Up 75% over last 10 Years,” and it opens…
BY HANK REICHMAN Did that headline grab you? I had intended to title this post “The Ironies of Ken Starr,” but someone tweeted something like the above and I couldn’t resist stealing the idea for my title. It’s out of date anyway, because today Baylor University announced that Starr will resign as university president while…
BY MARTIN KICH Here are the schools with the most NFL draft picks between 1996 and 2015: USC: 69 LSU: 63 Oklahoma: 57 Georgia: 56 Florida State: 54 (tie) Alabama: 53 (tie) Ohio State: 53 Miami: 46 Florida: 45 Wisconsin: 42 (tie) Clemson: 41 (tie) Texas: 41 (tie) California: 40 (tie) Notre Dame: 40 (tie)…
BY MARTIN KICH Here is the list, by school, for 2016: 5: Ohio State: Joey Bosa (No. 3 overall), Ezekiel Elliott (4), Eli Apple (10), Taylor Decker (16),Darron Lee (20) 3: Ole Miss: Laremy Tunsil (13), Laquon Treadwell (23), Robert Nkemdiche (29) 2: Florida: Vernon Hargreaves III (11), Keanu Neal (17) 2: Notre Dame: Ronnie Stanley (6), Will Fuller (21) Alabama: Ryan Kelly (18) Baylor: Corey Coleman (15) California: Jared Goff (1) Clemson: Shaq Lawson (19) Florida State: Jalen Ramsey (5) Georgia: Leonard Floyd (9) Houston – William Jackson III (24) Louisville: Sheldon…
The following paragraphs are taken from an article written by Dom Amore for the Hartford Courant: “The [Connecticut] governor’s ban on state-paid travel to North Carolina does not preclude college sports teams from playing games there. “In the short term, the ban, which Gov. Dannel P. Malloy issued on March 31 in response to a North Carolina…