NPR Agrees With Orson!
by trojan chica on Aug 18, 2010 11:38 AM EDT
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NPR contributor argues for college athletes to be paid, with speculation by agents similar to that in futures markets. Nifty. And Orson-esque.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129252631
An excerpt:
"Letting honest, professional agents advise and support innocent young athletes would remove so much hypocrisy from the system. It is not agents who pimp — it is college athletics, and I thank Coach Saban for further bringing this injustice to my attention."
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they are paid... to a point
$1200 stipend
"Voetbal is pas totaal als je wint"- Coach Adun
"The greatest sin is to spurn the gift"- Coach Alistair
I dunno if I agree to the "future's market" comparison...
So the more variability, the more valuable the athlete? I think the Frank should be referring to asset evaluation, not futures. And agents can already meet with athletes, nothing wrong with that, it happens all the time. But accepting gifts while still playing is the problem.
Besides, its Frank Deford, who is one notch below Michael Wilbon in college football awareness.
I'm an avid NPR listener..
..and oh man I hate that guy. I always feel like it’s someone who should be writing for the New Yorker – maybe writing the cartoons – talking to me about college football. I want to blow up his car.
They do have another sports commentator, whose name escapes me at the moment, and I don’t feel like looking it up, who is much better.
Deford is like their Daniel Shor (god rest his soul blah blah), but for sports. Irrelevant, out of touch, foppish, some other adjective, blueberries, fnords.
by anunaki on Aug 18, 2010 11:22 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Stefan Fatsis perhaps?
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Fatsis is a million times better.
Deford is a remnant from a bygone age when you could just be “a sports guy”. He is tolerable when he talks about things I don’t know or care that much about, but when he bloviates on topics like college football it is obvious how little he knows.
Los Angeles is like Manchester. There is a red team that wins championships and a blue team that doesn't.
I’ve met Fatsis a few times, our kids were at the same nursery school. He’s got a pretty broad range of interests in sports and interesting stuff to say about it.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
His book on Scrabble is a must-read
Word Freaks. It’s about professional Scrabble players, and his own journey to become a competitive Scrabblista. About a million times more entertaining than you’d expect.
Yeah, way to try to hide the fact that it’s Frank Deford. Whenever they put him on I switch to the local sports station’s morning show.
by witless chum on Aug 19, 2010 2:15 PM EDT up reply actions
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