Kolkata vs. Oakland/Detroit/Philly/LA?

Baseball sucks. Cricket rocks.

.Oh ... fuck, yeth!!!!

Dear god, this baseball shit sucks. Show us some cricket, yo ... !!!

Skit should have been published by the Gossip Girls, when they were here for April Fool’s Day. Would have tied in nicely with the short-shorts fashion pieces they ran.

It tied the game; wasn't for the lead.

Huh ... speaking of being “willfully obtuse based on personal opinion/experience”, tell the story again about your “college days” ...

Holy shit - another ten chapters, all to basically confirm yet again that you believe the onus is on the schools to provide a for-pay option to student-athletes who don’t want to be bothered with the ‘student’ part, because the NBA and NFL impose age restrictions. And again with the false dichotomy that these kids…

I see ... so your last rant - about people being denied options and choices - was just empty rambling?

What the hell are you talking about now? Who is being denied a choice?

Not jealous at all. Quite the opposite in fact - I appreciate the value in what student-athletes receive, and resent seeing people such as yourself whining about it not being enough.

If you can break that down into legible English, I'll respond. Other than that, all I'm seeing at my end - looking at you - is an uneducated idiot jealous of those of us who went to college and received exactly what we went for - an education.

Nice op-ed piece. And that’s all it is - your opinion.

You've got to get past this idiotic notion you have that the NCAA created this system. The NCAA offers scholarships to "student-athletes" to attend school while playing sports. If the athlete feels the scholarship is not adequate reimbursement, he/she doesn't have to attend school. The NBA and NFL created the system…

Agreed - “that’s not how it works” ... running a de facto farm system for the NBA and NFL by paying players?

Wrong.

Sure, he is ...

Excellent - unbiased reports from “bloggers”, the same bunch who brought us such investigative reporting as '500 Days of Somesuch ...' ...

Yeah - your assumptions about AD accounting are probably more accurate than those made by professionals examining the reports, audits, etc. these schools receiving public funding must file ...

Look at that little guy go! He is incorgiable!