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Corruption and exploitation are as old as sport itself. College basketball in particular has been punctuated by sensational scandals, including revelations of point shaving that emerged in the '50s, '60s and early '80s. But today the money is bigger, the temptations are greater and the pressures to win more crushing...
Such reforms could help end the exploitation and hypocrisy that now sully the game of college basketball, as well as other sports. That would be good for the schools and good for sport. If colleges and universities assumed their responsibility as institutions of higher learning and if sports programs were kept in perspective, more student athletes might turn out like Fred Brown. Fred grew up on the gritty streets of the South Bronx. His father was taken off to prison when the boy was in third grade. His mother worked in a grocery and tended...
UNLV, which was put on probation in the late 1970s for NCAA transgressions, is one of the superpowers of college basketball. In a city that worships winners, "Tark the Shark" Tarkanian is a patron saint, with the highest winning percentage (82%) in the sport. Along with that come use of a Cadillac, a base salary of $173,855 and a percentage of postseason revenues that could reach $80,000. (UNLV President Robert Maxson's salary is $123,500.) Tarkanian also has an endorsement contract with Nike shoes, a promotional arrangement with a Vegas nightclub and a sporting-goods store...
...have grown accustomed in recent years to seeing our leaders, our preachers, our financiers, all implicated in dirty and immoral acts. Yet now the shadows seem more and more to be clouding even the green fields of sport. Is nothing sacred? Sport, after all, was supposed to be the arena we could visit to get away from ugly realities, refresh our sense of grace and possibility, and enjoy the catharsis of a well-defined universe, presided over by umpires who distinguish fair from foul. This year, however, as the regenerative cycle of baseball's spring comes round again, there...
...felt terrific to be a part of the streak," Fish said. "But you can't improve without losing. Despite an individual coach's ego, the sport is better off when a team doesn't win all the time...