I went to Duke, but I get it. The country is tired of hearing about how great it is. Ever since the back-to-back titles in ’91 and ’92, they’ve been overexposed and at times overrated. Plenty of reasons to get…
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Questioning the place of sports in college: Drop football, save academics?
by Beau Dure • • 2 Comments
A Chicago-area junior college has dropped its football program. Sad day for student-athletes? A tale of Title IX excess? No, says the Chicago Tribune‘s John Keilman (listed as “reporter” though this is clearly an op-ed). I think a lot of…
Solving the CONCACAF scheduling problems
by Beau Dure • • 2 Comments
The only people who seem happy with the CONCACAF Olympic women’s soccer qualifying format are the players who have padded their career goal totals against the Dominican Republic and Guatemala. The mismatches are one problem. Here’s another: If either Canada…
U.S. lineup vs. Guatemala: Some changes, but the right ones?
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Abby Wambach is still in the lineup, exposing her various aches to another game on artificial turf in the midst of a five-game stretch. Not sure that’s a good idea. There are a few changes: RB: Heather Mitts for the…
How education helps athletes
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Monica Gonzalez wasn’t writing specifically about high school and college soccer here, but she makes an argument here that bolsters the notion of keeping the USA’s “school and soccer” combination alive: Education affects sports performance. Think of it as a…
The war on nonrevenue sports, ctd
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The argument as laid out in Sports Illustrated: 1. There’s a lot of money flowing into big-time college sports. 2. They should give some of that money away toward charitable causes. 3. But wait, many athletic departments are actually losing money. So…
The UFC’s curious response to ESPN’s piece
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(Editing a little after listening to the Josh Gross podcast with Outside the Lines reporter John Barr.) I have to start with a disclaimer, of course. If there’s a dispute between the UFC and ESPN, then I’m in the bad…
Questioning the place of sports in college: Character
by Beau Dure • • 0 Comments
Forget about the BCS for a moment. Forget Title IX. Forget conference re-alignment. In the post-Penn State scandal world, we’re seeing something that runs far deeper: People who aren’t sure colleges should be in the sports business at all. They’re…