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The Business of College Sports
The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics reports that the commercialization of college sports has produced deplorable graduation rates and outright academic fraud. But could colleges and universities afford to implement the commission's sweeping recommendations, let alone get out of sports altogether, if they can't restore academic standards? We examine whether big-time sports are corrupting America's colleges and universities with the co-chair of the Knight Commission and representatives from the world of college athletics. Reporter's Notebook: Mexican Trucks The White House is outraged and Mexico is threatening retaliation over a House vote to bar Mexican trucks from unrestricted use of US roads and highways. Carol Mell, who covers the border for the Yuma Daily Sun, has more on the violation of NAFTA that appears to be more a case of union protectionism than transportation safety.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readThe Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics reports that the commercialization of college sports has produced deplorable graduation rates and outright academic fraud. But could colleges and universities afford to implement the commission's sweeping recommendations, let alone get out of sports altogether, if they can't restore academic standards? We examine whether big-time sports are corrupting America's colleges and universities with the co-chair of the Knight Commission and representatives from the world of college athletics.
Mexican Trucks The White House is outraged and Mexico is threatening retaliation over a House vote to bar Mexican trucks from unrestricted use of US roads and highways. Carol Mell, who covers the border for the
Yuma Daily Sun, has more on the violation of NAFTA that appears to be more a case of union protectionism than transportation safety.
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