Tuesday, August 27, 2013
President Obama could attack Syria with a cruise missile strike as early as THURSDAY as Russia says West is acting like a 'monkey with a grenade' in Muslim world | Mail Online
Parents and cheerleaders angry as school bans its OWN cheer uniforms from class after deciding they are too risque for the dress code | Mail Online - The decision by administrators at Countryside High School in Clearwater, Florida, has left many parents scratching their heads and has upset many of the cheerleaders - who say wearing uniforms on the Fridays before games is important for school spirit. - Mail Online
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College Football’s Most Dominant Player? It’s ESPN - NYTimes.com - By JAMES ANDREW MILLER, STEVE EDER and RICHARD SANDOMIR - Far beyond televising games, ESPN has become the chief impresario of college football. By infusing the sport with billions of dollars it pays for television rights — more than $10 billion on college football in the last five years alone — ESPN has become both puppet-master and kingmaker, arranging games, setting schedules and bestowing the gift of nationwide exposure on its chosen universities, players and coaches. The money and programming focused on college football by ESPN, as well as its competitors, have transformed the game, creating professionalized sports empires in the midst of academic institutions. At a time of rising tuition and fiscal struggles, the millions of dollars that flow to the top athletic departments are, with few exceptions, used to enhance athletics, not academics. Celebrity coaches earn many times more than college presidents, and even teams at financially strained public universities train in lavish facilities financed by donors and corporate sponsors.
Proof that ESPN really does run college football | Mark Bradley | www.ajc.com - The New York Times ran a fascinating story Sunday regarding ESPN's control of college football, a subject about which we've ruminated in this space a time or two. Written by James Andrew Miller, Steve Eder and Richard Sandomir -- the Worldwide Leader requires gang-tackling -- the report is very long and very detailed. And it is, not to put too fine a point on it, rather disquieting.
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