Music for a Tuesday

Just like the cover of Macy here. Makes me want to get a good recording to run through B&Ws.

Boycott the BCS

From Slate.

Seriously. For how long can college football tell its fans to sit and spin?

What is wrong with College Football

Over at CNNSI, Andy Staples discusses how Notre Dame can fix its program. The first solution is for the school to drop its academic standards "at least occasionally." This is not the first time Staples wrote about the conflict between sports and academics.

But, I guess, college only describes football. It certainly has no relationship to academic standards. Maybe it should be renamed to exploitation football. That phrase provides a must better description to reality than college football.