I'm actually quite well-versed in what Title IX actually is, but draw whatever conclusions you wish to draw on the basis of a one sentence internet post.

The real question is what basketball powers outside the major conferences get screwed the most because they don't have a football program?

Because the actual professional cartels in the US are the ones creating the restricted labor environment. But we all love the NFL and NBA and their union partners too much to really take them to task.

I'd give it under 5 minutes before the first Title IX lawsuit is filed once a football and men's baskeball teams are given benefits not available the athletes in women's programs.

I understand Pyromania is 30 years old, but it's still a kick in the nuts for a 45-year-old to stumble across Joe Elliot belting out 'Photograph' on the radio in an unfamiliar part of the country, only to find out that you're listening to the True Oldies Channel.

Obviously, there are a lot of reasons. There is a perception, rightly or wrongly, that unions overreached in a number of industries and became as much a part of the problem as part of the solution.

Law geek question for Deadspin LLP:

I'm the first guy to point out that you can't expect perfection from replay review, because it's simply not attainable, but there was another egregiously bad blown replay review on a HBP call in tonight's Reds/Brewers game. Short of adding multiple layers of review to the process (and STILL not obtaining perfection),…

From the perspective of a power conference school, it's not about leveling the field for everyone, it's about leveling the field between similarly situated schools. Purdue (to use another random example) doesn't give a shit what happens to the Sun Belt schools, but they sure don't want to fall behind in their ability…

As I posted elsewhere in this thread, you should take that up with the professional monopolies who are the real culprits in restricting these athletes opportunities to earn money as professional athletes.

Right. It's not the messing around that is the problem. It's that the messing around becoming public kills the illusion that is being sold.

Take it up with the professional sports monopolies in the US who are the real agents quashing an open sports market.

The argument against this is that, for example, Phil Knight and Nike will give every kid that signs to play football at Oregon a $1M endorsement deal. How will Oregon State compete? T. Boone Pickens will buy the autograph of every player on the Oklahoma St hoops roster. How will OU compete?

Banging on the NCAA and the power conferences/schools is fun and often deserved, but every time I read one of these articles, I wonder why I haven't read at least as many about the professional monopolies (by which I mean the leagues, aided and abetted by the player union partners in crime) which have effectively…

I don't think he's lying lying, I think he's just a college kid who, along with many of he other college kids he hangs around with, are usually not very good at budgeting time, money or other resources, especially when the resources around them are as abundant as they are for D1 athletes as compared to most other…

It's like getting credit for eating 20 popsicles when all you did is open the wrapper and give each one a lick.

Most campus police departments and officers are in fact legislatively-empowered police forces with all the powers and responsibilities of any municipal or county police force. It's just that their jurisdiction is specifically limited to a University, as opposed to being limited to a city/village/whatever. So not…

Well, that was prophetic. I'm no Mexico fan, but that was a damned shame. I feel cheated as a viewer.

Yes. FIFA controls the presentation so as to control controversy.

Shoulda been you, Panama.