How to tell a story

How to tell a story

Saturday, January 2, 2016

College sports

http://wapo.st/1SrjWaQ

"It’ll be their home on campus, when they’re not in class.” One has to wonder whether the spokesman for Clemson University’s athletic department was able to keep a straight face in offering up that defense of the lavish complex being built for the exclusive use of its football players. That South Carolina’s second-largest public university feels the need — indeed, thinks nothing of — spending $55 million to provide players with a miniature golf course, sand volleyball courts, bowling lanes, a barbershop and other amenities pretty much sums up everything that is wrong with college athletics today."