Guest Commentaries
How Sports Attacks Public Education    Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author expounds on the higher ed funding crisis in California, Knight Commission pronouncement and Maryland student fan exuberance.  By Dave Zirin, The Nation, 3-4-10
 
February 2010
“Forty Minutes of Hell: The Extraordinary Life of Nolan Richardson"    Clips Book Review   This newly released book chronicles one of the pioneer black big-time college basketball coaches, including his tireless efforts to advocate inclusion and equality. By Nick Infante, Clips Editor, 2-28-10
 
Chemistry lesson: Handing out grades   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author spins his latest 40 names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college basketball.   By Pat Forde, ESPN.com, 2-23-10
 
Selig prepared for funding challenges     Clips Guest Commentary   After 11 years directing the Western Kentucky program and directing the Hilltopper football program's move from D1-AA to D1-A in 2007, Wood Selig is moving on to Old Dominion University.   Dave Fairbank, dailypress.com, 2-27-10
 
You lookin' at me? NCAA comes up with a loser of an idea   Clips Guest Commentary   Tongue firmly in cheek, our sometimes irreverent guest author takes the NCAA to task in making the often impossible distinction between taunting and looking in football celebrations.   Ray Melick, Birmingham News, 2-15-10
 
Here's hoping ex-UCLA star O'Bannon drills this shot against NCAA   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author conjectures about the impending discovery process that could open the NCAA’s books like never before.   By Tom Hoffarth, Long Beach Press-Telegram, 2-13-10
 
Reclaiming Academic Primacy and Integrity in Higher Education    Clips Guest Commentary   In his signature style, our guest author draws an analogy to the tireless (and successful) efforts of conservationist John Muir as a lesson for reform of college athletics.   By Frank G. Splitt, The Drake Group, 2-9-10
 
WVU Should Ban Fans That Can't Behave   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author advocates consequences for boorish and unruly fan behavior, unlike the spineless response by West Virginia officials when things got hot during a game versus Pitt.   By Kevin Blackistone, Fanhouse, 2-4-10
 
Q&A with Big Ten commissioner    Clips Interview   Commissioner Jim Delany worries that an NCAA Tournament expansion will dilute the regular season.   Mike DeCourcy, Sporting News, 2-6-10
 
Sustaining unsustainability    Clips Commentary   Clips Editor Nick Infante comments on the impropriety of fiscally irresponsible congressmen passing judgment on college athletics financial policies.   2-6-10
 
Sports' Misplacement in Society   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author extends the reality of pre-teen recruiting into a hilarious “Newborn Baby Draft” of 2017.   By Tim Joyce, Real Clear Sports, 2-6-10
 
NCAA proposes March Mediocrity    Clips Guest Commentary  Our guest author pokes fun at the, uh, quality of the bubble teams in a 96 team tournament.   By Ed Graney, Las Vegas Review Journal, 2-4-10
 
Giving refs a break is right call to make   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author, a basketball veteran in several capacities, wrote a spirited defense of referees that cuts across sportsmanship and common courtesy as the way to retain the best referees.   By Bernadette V. McGlade, ACC, 8-16-04
 
January 2010
Super Bowl Commercial Brings Different Focus to Tebow   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author shrewdly analyzes the impact that Tim Tebow’s anti-abortion Super Bowl ad might have on his outsized popularity.   By Clay Travis, FanHouse, 1-18-10
 
Sorry Kentucky, No One Will Beat Indiana's Undefeated Record    Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author muses on the unlikelihood of another big-time men’s basketball team running the table. By Terence Moore, FanHouse, 1-21-10
 
College Sports Turmoil: The New Normal?    Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author comments on the hiccups associated with recent coach changes in big-time college football.   By Frank Deford, NPR, 1-20-10
 
Don’t let some transgressions diminish opinion of all athletes    Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author reminds us that the shenanigans perpetrated by pro, college and high school athletes represent an abysmally small percentage of the total participants. By Richard Lapchick, SportsBusiness Journal, 1-11-10
 
Fed Heavy Weighs In     Clips Eyewitness Report   Arne Duncan is the US Education Secretary, and he’s no sissy—he co-captained his Harvard basketball team (scored 20 against Duke once) and played in an Australian professional league from 1987 until 1991. At the NCAA convention he zinged both the NCAA and the NBA over the so-called one-and-done rule.   USA Today, 1-14-10
 
Tennessee Takes Big Cut With Dooley    Clips Guest Commentary   Kiffin left for SoCal and Tennessee AD Mike Hamilton could have taken the line-drive single to left (hiring David Cutcliffe), or he could buckle down and swing for the fences. He swung for the fences (hiring Derek Dooley). And now we’ll wait and see whether he made any contact at all reportedly hiring Dooley.   By Clay Travis, Fanhouse, 1-15-10
 
Some fees could lead customers to rethink where they spend    Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author comments on service fees without explanation.   By Bill Sutton, SportsBusiness Journal, 1-11-10
 
Shifting Ground on the Sidelines   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author writes about football coaches behaving badly, and then being fired for it. By Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed, 1-13-10
 
Tennessee Upsets Top-Ranked Kansas With Six Scholarship Players   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author – a Tennessee football nut – took in a UT men's basketball game versus #1 Kansas – and guess who won?   By Clay Travis, Fanhouse, 1-10-10
 
Why bother with Rooney Rule if this is how it works?   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author writes of the see-through charade conducted by the Redskins and Seahawks in hiring their new head coaches.   By Gregg Doyel, CBSSports.com, 1-10-10
 
Can Social Media Disrupt the NCAA's Control Over Student-Athletes?   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author has a new take on the (non) compensation of college student-athletes. He calls it monopsony.   Jon Hickey, Flip the Media, 1-9-11
 
Abuse by coaches a disturbing trend    Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author explores the evolution of tough-guy football coaching.  By Joey Johnston, Tampa Tribune, Tampa Tribune, 1-10-10
 
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