Today we should thank Good Ol’ Rocky Top for providing us more than the most annoying fight son in college sports. The University of Tennessee’s handling of the Bruce Pearl case takes us to previously unplumbed depths of hypocrisy, venality, and what the NCAA politely calls “lack of institutional control.”
By not firing Bruce, the big-mouthed […]

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If you believe, as I do, that the day is swiftly approaching when the BCS conferences will leave the NCAA to form a consortium of super-powers, then you have to wonder where that will leave the Big East, that unwieldy collection of 16 public and private universities who all have different opinions about football.
Eight Big […]

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I know, I know. The name of the University of Louisville’s new $248 million arena is as unbecoming and unwieldy as Freedom Hall was classy. The world’s largest food company, which is based in Louisville, coughed up $20 million for 10 years for the right to call the state-of-the-art, 22,000-seat hoops palace the “KFC Yum! […]

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