Can’t have NCAA athletes stick up for themselves! It will end civilization!

It will be the end of the game! Parents won’t be able to play catch with their kids!  Snow will fall up!  The terrorists will win!  So said critics of the possibility of baseball players being free agents (when the issue came before the Supreme Court in 1915), and when Major League baseball integrated in […]

News Flash #384,729: Coaches’, administrators’ salaries growing faster than faculty’s

Another shocking, just shocking development that none of us had ever expected: as indicated in the AAUP’s annual report on salaries in higher education, coaches’ and administrators’ salaries have been grower faster than that of faculty. The NY Times and Slate noted the former, but did not report the latter. Here’s the also entirely predictable reaction […]

Unlike Colbert, college football coach follows age-old anti-union playbook

The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,Video Archive Another development in the continuing story of the Northwestern University football players who dared, dared suggest that their university cared more about dollars than athletes, and that perhaps unionization might get them a voice in their own employment “student-athletic careers.”  And some of […]

College athletes, unionization, and the bogeyman

Let’s imagine a woman’s on fire.  She screams for water.  One person near her says, “That woman’s on fire!  She’s asking for water.  Water’s good.  Sand would be better.”  Another person says, “You know what would be perfect?  A fire extinguisher.  This room should have a fire extinguisher.”  A third chimes in, “There are lots […]