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Abolish the NCAA: Shame on UNC, too
By Christopher B. Daly Today’s NYTimes greets the new year with a dismaying (though hardly surprising) story about the ways in which the NCAA extends its corrupting reach into college classrooms. It’s...
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Abolish the NCAA, junior high edition
By Christopher B. Daly Now it appears that the NCAA is not content to corrupt American colleges and universities. The gargantuan semi-professional sports monopoly is now reaching not only into high...
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Abolish the NCAA: unionize!
By Christopher B. Daly As I have long maintained, the NCAA does not advance any educational purpose on college campuses (and, in fact, with its insane training regimens and travel requirements,...
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Abolish the NCAA (cont.)
By Christopher B. Daly More evidence of the corrupting influence of the NCAA? From today’s NYTimes, a front-page re-investigation. Highlights: Tallahassee, Fla. — Early on the morning of Dec. 7, 2012,...
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Abolish the NCAA: The Duke case
By Christopher B. Daly I’m just catching up with a fine review by Caitlin Flanagan in the NYTimes Sunday Book Review about what sounds like a fine book by William D. Cohan about the fiasco that was...
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Abolish the NCAA: Carolina edition
By Christopher B. Daly As I read his latest column, the NYTimes’ Joe Nocera seems to be edging toward the realization that the NCAA is beyond reform and should be abolished. Today, he tells the story...
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Abolish the NCAA: UNC edition
By Christopher B. Daly How much more evidence does anybody need that the NCAA is a deeply corrupting force on U.S. college campuses? Especially among the big-time Division 1 schools, the NCAA...
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Abolish the NCAA (football edition)
By Christopher B. Daly It becomes clearer every year around the Bowl season that big-time college football is essentially a farm system for the NFL in which the players are not paid. That’s great for...
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Abolish the NCAA (cont.)
As if we needed any more evidence that the NCAA is a corrupt and destructive organization, here is the word from the horse’s mouth: comments by Walter Byers, the former long-time executive director of...
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Abolish the NCAA (cont.)
By Christopher B. Daly Why do I want to abolish the NCAA? Here are a couple of reasons, from the recently concluded spring semester: 1. In my large lecture class at Boston University on the history of...
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Abolish the NCAA (graduation edition)
By Christopher B. Daly For a couple of years now, I have been urging the abolition of the NCAA. Not reform, but the outright dismantling of an organization that is deeply corrupt and brings no good to...
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