Sports get in the way of higher education.
I overheard those words from a professor last semester as he was explaining to a student-athlete why she would not be allowed to take a test early because she would be on a team trip at the end of the week. The dispute about the boundaries of college athletics has been a heated one ever since James Naismith was hanging peach baskets. The book, which basically argues that college athletics is the worst thing to happen to education since MTV, has received national attention with reviews in Sports Illustrated, The Chronicle of Higher Education and ESPN The Magazine . It would take three week's worth of space for me to state my sarcastic opinion about the book. Therefore I will present the major findings of the book and let you decide for yourself without my sarcasm.