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The College Sports Rip Off
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The article discusses the thought provoking TV documentary " Schooled: The Price of College Sports" and the exploitation of athletes on whose backs the billion dollar college football and baseball industry is built. The real culprits in this racket are exposed.
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There is a favorite line from my novella Dinner Party For Eight in which Angela asks Harry:“What do you think I am?”Harry considered this for a moment. What was she actually?“Well I suppose you are a very beautiful cook.”So if I have to answer the same question what am I actually? I would also need to consider this for a moment. I would like to say I’m an ex astronaut, have more degrees than a thermometer, have competed in the Tour de France without any EPO, surfed Teahupoo in Tahiti and emerged unscathed, sailed round the world, am an ace Alpine skier, am a member of Mensa, have a beauty queen wife and gorgeous kids, and started my own corporation which has listed on NASDAQ. I could go on but like Arnold Schwarzenegger I don’t want to boast.Well to be honest, I have gone some of the way towards all those things. I do have a letter from Wernher von Braun, I do have three degrees in Physics, I have flown in a jet plane (Emirates Air), I do cycle the mega steep hills here where I live but unfortunately can’t get EPO anywhere, I am a keen surfer who has almost managed to break his neck, I am an ocean going skipper and I did own my own yacht though if it was me I wouldn’t sail with me as captain, I do ski but you need to get out of the way, I do have a beautiful wife (though her agreeing to marry me has to be my biggest piece of luck ever) and two great kids, I do have my own software business but no stock exchanges alas and I would like to take the Mensa test but I’m pretty sure I would fail and then I wouldn’t be able to live with that so I would rather rationalize. I live in that sapphire city – Cape Town.
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I recently watched an excellent documentary "Schooled: The Price of College Sports". It tackles the issue of college athletes who are admitted on the strength of their athletic prowess to colleges across the USA. In return basically for a one year renewable contract (subject anyhow to performance on the field, though this rule appears to have been softened since the documentary was made) they get a scholarship worth the average annual academic fees of roughly $28000 p.a. Collegiate games are huge business in the US with stadiums of up to 175000 people packing the up market stands and plush corporate booths all financed by the sweat of the athletes themselves, some of whom end up injured or even paralyzed without workman’s compensation. Coaches and assistant coaches and sundry hangers on can earn obscene salaries of up to $5 million a year (yet the athletes from whose shoulders this largesse springs complained of having no money for basic living expenses and even complained of hunger at times). Then the corporates weigh in as well, paying coaches handy retainers like $100 000 p.a. so their players will wear Nike shoes, which is a
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