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...Sotomayor revisited sports law back in 2004, when she upheld the NFL's rule that players must be out of high school for three years before becoming eligible for the draft. Former Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett, who at the time was suspended from college football for accepting improper gifts and filing a false police report, had sued the league, alleging that this rule violated anti-trust law. Sotomayor argued that the age-eligibility rule was exempt from anti-trust law, even though the rule is a "hardship" on players who are not yet members of the players' union...
...Dexter Manley was illiterate and still got into—and graduated from—Oklahoma State. And Maurice Clarett was a disaster. And Adrian Peterson exclusively prefers the latter half of the student-athlete...
...only made sense because Harvard did not want to get involved in the rigors that Division I-A football has put on so many prestigious academic institutions. The situation with Maurice Clarett and Ohio State is only the latest reminder that Harvard seems to have done the right thing...
Harvard sports need not become the pedestal that Bradley enjoyed at Princeton in the sixties. Students here have freed slaves, starred in movies and written novels. Students at other schools are Maurice Clarett and Ken Dorsey. There is no need for Harvard undergrads to “mass around and praise” Sara Sedgwick...
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