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  •  Not my age (3+ / 0-)

    there was no draft in the early 90s, but I know what you are saying.

    I knew a lot of athletes when I was in college and very few of them got the full educational experience.  Too many missed classes due to travel, too isolated due too fame, too focused on dreams of going pro...I know many of them would love to go back now and actually learn something that matters instead of taking the major that gave them the greatest amount of free time.

    My candidate voted to ban the use of cluster bombs on kids. Did yours?

    by clonecone on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:11:05 PM PDT

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    •  Travel demands on athletes have gotten worse (1+ / 0-)

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      That's especially true in basketball. During the 1970s, most Big 10 games were played on Thursday nights and Saturday afternoons, minimizing the number of classes missed. Even the NCAA tournament rounds were played on Thursday and Saturday.

      Replete with "misstatements" and elisions and retracted and redacted and revoked assertions.--Carl Bernstein on HRC's record.

      by Dump Terry McAuliffe on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:37:58 PM PDT

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