The North Carolina academic scandal is getting enough traction that we may be able to replace “North Carolina” with “national.” CNN has done its own investigation, finding plenty of issues with football and basketball players (not specified: any women’s basketball players?) all over the place. The scrutiny is good, but a couple of things here are worth nit-picking: – “NCAA sports are big business, with millions of dollars at stake for winning programs.” Sure, but we have to stress again that a lot of NCAA programs lose money. It’d be interesting to see how many of these academic problems are … Continue reading NCAA athletes going pro in something other than reading