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...understand why thousands upon thousands of beach creatures annually attend the USC-UCLA volleyball match. No, they're not stoned. Not all of them, anyway. It's just that volleyball is a great sport...
...really can't blame the players for trying to bring in the megabucks by going hardship. After all, if the USC football team is any indicator, the best college players only pull in $2,000 a year under the table. High school stars may be even more undercompensated. According to the Birmingham Post-Herald, current University of Alabama forward Bobby Lee Hurt only received a percentage of the revenues from soft drink machines and gate receipts while in high school--even after he threatened transfer to another school...
...always preferred college sports to the pros because the games seemed purer. The older I get, though, the more I wonder. The NCAA needs to do something now, before even its pretense of amateurism fades. Sure, the ruling body just hit USC with a two-year TV ban for its indiscretions, but will that be any more effective than the one-year disqualification from bowl appearances imposed on the Trojans...
...South and especially the West where the weather is much more conducive to baseball, counting for the seasons that last longer. The Arizona State alumni book includes Reggie Jackson. Rick Monday, Craig Swan, and Bump Wills, Tom Seaver, Bill Lee, Steve Kemp and Fred Lynn each graced the USC campus. Harvard's contributions to the last decade of big league ball is Pete Varney, who played out a mediocre career with the White Sox and who now coaches at Brandeis...