Word: streit
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When the "disintegrating influence of money-mad athletics" was first hot, Judge Saul Streit condemned the University of Kentucky as "the acme of commercialism and overemphasis." That was in 1952, after hearings on Kentucky's role in college basketball's point-shaving scandal. Streit found "covert subsidization of players, ruthless exploitation of athletes, cribbing at examinations, illegal recruiting and the most flagrant abuse of the athletic scholarship." More than 30 years later, the bill of particulars has hardly changed...
...RICK DUCKETT--who guided the j.v. last year--will be working exclusively with the varsity this year, along with head coach FRANK MCLAUGHLIN. McLaughlin will make cuts this weekend.... Whomever he decides to keep should have a pretty good shot at the Ivy League title, at least according to Streit and Smiths. Frank Brady of the Philadelphia Bulletin picked the Crimson to upset Penn and Princeton to grab the laurels in this year's race. "I think that's the first time ever," said McLaughlin...