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Colleges treat female athletes as second-class citizens, especially compared with their male counterparts. And one can hardly blame most female athletes for accepting it. After all, even the highly successful and celebrated women’s USA soccer team has been waging a decades-long battle for equal treatment in this respect, to no avail. Sedona Prince’s Viral Moment… Read more.
Organizers hype the annual NCAA Division 1 Basketball Tournament as “March Madness.” They do so to exploit “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat” inherent in low-seeded (a.k.a. Cinderella) teams upsetting top-seeded ones — often with buzzer-beating hail marys. Except that this year’s tournament hasn’t quite lived up to that hype. After all, the… Read more.
One can be forgiven for thinking that North Carolina winning the NCAA (men’s) championship on Monday is the biggest story in basketball this year. After all, even President Obama took time out of his busy schedule to have ESPN broadcast him filling out his NCAA tournament brackets. He completed them by picking North Carolina to win.… Read more.
