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    "Upside"

    How did the trope of describing black athletes as having "tremendous upside" ever gain currency? While there are certainly many great black athletes, the negro typically matures earlier than the white, and therefore any random late teen early 20s white athlete will have a lot more "upside" than...
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    Future of Football

    The drumbeat of concern over chronic traumatic encephalopathy is becoming difficult to ignore (not that one should willfully ignore it), and some commentators even question whether the game will survive in its current form. This leads one to consider possible reforms with a view to reducing...
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    Simple observation by a casual fan....

    Many college basketball teams these days are effectively segregated, i.e., all-black. This includes many teams in the NCAA tournament. However, as the tournament progresses, the proportion of integrated teams, i.e., those with significant white players, increases. Last year's Duke-Butler...
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    new poster here

    Glad to happen upon this forum. I've got no problem with black athletes participating in sports with white athletes, but I do have a problem with all the media hype of the blacks, and disdain for the whites. I've got a big problem with the outright abandonment of academic and personal conduct...
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