It’s Only a Game

The NCAA’s campaign against “politically incorrect” team mascots and logos has hit a little snag in North Dakota, where a judge has blocked the banning of the name North Dakota Fighting Sioux.

From the article, this gem of illumination from the NCAA:

The NCAA, which designed its policy to avoid a confrontation in court, issued a written statement saying it still expected to prevail.

“We are disappointed in the preliminary ruling but will continue to defend the NCAA’s right and responsibility to enact guidelines in the best interest of our member schools, our student-athletes and our fans,” the statement said.

This probably means that at best, the NCAA is scared shitless of lawsuits against them; at worst, that their desire is to achieve a homogenous clump of schools, each with about zero distinguishing characteristics. As far as the student-athlete label goes, everybody knows that’s utter nonsense. The late, great, Paul “Bear” Bryant summed it up best years ago with these words:

It’s pretty hard to rally around a math class.

Indeed.

-k-

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