Sad that we get more dogged interviewers in darts coverage than in politics.

Depends on the school, but coaches are often paid from multiple sources, so they might get a fraction of their salary from the university and then the rest from the school’s athletic foundation or what have you. The funding of athletics is generally pretty shady, and they’re as separate from or as close to the rest of…

I think a lot of people are missing the point. This is about branding, and as a new sports league, OWL has an uphill battle to create a clear, recognizable brand. In that sense, having two “Toronto” Overwatch teams has the potential to cause confusion and dilute the brand, and raises issues of what “Contenders” is, as…

In its older sense, “tracking” meant testing kids and then sorting them into different levels, so that there would be completely different classes for students who tested differently.

I’m in higher ed., so that’s where I’m coming from. I’m getting students who have been asked to do less work in general at previous levels, and a lot less of certain types of work, so when they get to me a lot of them don’t know how to work, because so little has been asked of them. Again: not their fault, and it…

The amount of material I can assign has changed significantly, so all of my syllabi now have less material on them than they used to. One concrete example: we used to be able to finish an introductory textbook in about 1 and 2/3 semesters. When we switched away from it to adopt an easier textbook we were only getting…

As someone who has been teaching for quite a while, I can tell you that students now are very different from students, say, ten years ago.

He’s essentially right, and the success of college sports is proof. But in a larger sense, this gets at the heart of longstanding fandom, which has to be attached to an abstract entity in order to endure. Whether you think this is a good thing or a bad thing, people have recognized aspects of it for millennia. Here’s…

It would be interesting to know what kind of funding Cummings gets, and from where. I’d imagine there is always a lot of money out there for a scientist who is willing to say things that are counter to a growing narrative and help deeply entrenched business interests.

That picture of Trump and Hannity at the podium is going to be in history textbooks as part of the section on the fall of America.

Lots of places in Greece put fries in the gyro. I was skeptical at first, but I’ve seen the light!

A team in Mexico makes all kind of sense, but can you imagine the uproar when that team travels and they play the Mexican National Anthem before games? The Fox News crowd would go crazy (well, slightly crazier than they already are).

If the Players’ Union had any teeth, the teams would refuse to play on that field.

Is it too much to ask for a bright cup with pictures of balloons and streamers and “Happy Birthday Jesus!” in bold letters?

I don’t think a lot of people outside of academia realize just how powerful Boards of Regents are—or what kind of people are usually on these boards. These aren’t generally academics or broad-minded philanthropists, but often right-wing businessmen and -women who have little interest in education per se.

And to think, a lot of people said that Rutgers (and Maryland) wouldn’t fit in the Big 10.

The greatest con job the Right ever perpetrated is that the media is liberal.

When was the last time a city’s NFL and NBA teams fired their coaches in the same week?

Meta comedy has been around as long as comedy. If you read the oldest Western comedies we have, those by Aristophanes, they’re completely meta. On the Roman side, our oldest comedies are by Plautus, who’s also completely meta.

I don’t think you should be able to write an article about Michigan State athletics without mentioning the scandal.