Today, we mourn the impending death of the NC-Double-A, lament the NFL hype machine, which we wish would die, and ponder the MVP possibilities of Elly De La Cruz, who is very much alive. Cash donations are welcome.
(Dallas Morning News)
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When I was a full-time college student and semi-pro beer drinker, I worked 15 hours a week shoving plates through a gigantic washing machine we called Hobart. Because the beast was, in fact, made by a company called Hobart. I made $3 an hour and got a free meal for every shift I worked.
In 1979, that made me richer than any Heisman Trophy hopeful or prospective NBA draft pick.
This was a time when the NCAA ruled college athletics like some Middle Ages lord. The popularity of college football and basketball began to explode, the money did the same. The “member institutions’’ profited, the workers did not.
Simplifying, I made more non-scholarship money at Washington & Lee than Larry Bird made at Indiana State.
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