I admit to having some anger toward basketball teams in particular. Dang that James Naismith for hanging that peach basket up and starting this game. The basket is now ten feet off the floor. And so the best players are generally tall people--at least close to six feet. Why should they get all the scholarships and the chances to play at a professional level where they rake in the megabucks?

As for Duke, I got my graduate degree there. And I even walked across campus beside the tallest player on the team--Mike Giminsky--one time (in the late 1970's). Yes, b-ball brings in a lot of money and frankly it's one of the main reasons Duke is so well known. But should schools be mainly about sports? Where's the emphasis on academics? Believe me, college professors generally don't earn megabucks. I was one!

Yes, the Penn State case is an example of how sports were put above the lives of young boys, who will be permanently scarred because no one wanted to give the football team bad publicity. And other schools such as UNC-Chapel Hill have gotten into trouble for doing things like signing up their players for easy, specially-made classes and having a tutor who did some of their work for them.