You Can’t Fix A System Designed To Be Broken, Part IV.

Here are Parts I, II, and III of the prior deconstruction of Jason Whitlock’s multi-column “solution” to fix men’s college hoops and college football. And Part IV (hopefully final) is a doozy, because now he’s dug himself so far into the hole that he won’t be able to dig out: his final grand proposal is [...]

You Can’t Fix A System Designed To Be Broken, Part III.

Read the prior fisking of Jason Whitlock’s first two installments of columns on fixing college basketball and football before this one; here’s Part I, and here’s Part II. In Part III, Whitlock lays out his plan to improve the education of the big-time collegiate athlete for us. I feel like I should state that I [...]

You Can’t Fix A System Designed To Be Broken, Part II.

Previously: Part I. Now, here’s where Mr. Whitlock and I probably run off the rails, because Part II for him is about athletes showing off “the wrong image” for pro basketball and football. Change is coming in professional football and basketball whether hip-hop athletes and their groupies like it or not. We’ve already seen it [...]

You Can’t Fix A System Designed To Be Broken, Part I.

Jason Whitlock is doing something right post All-Star column madness despite frequent amounts of stupidity and belonging to the old-school generation of Buppies who like to hate to black youth culture, because for some reason, I’m still reading. At least he picks a worthy topic this time: how college football and basketball ought to be [...]