Word: offing
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College sports now seem to be a hopeless mess of hypocrisy, cheating, and irrationality. And the trend is for the worse.
And, in the same issue, Sports Illustrated registers alarm that Johns Hopkins thinks there are things more important than football. Despite de-emphasis, the Hopkins' eleven was 7-1 a year ago, but the student body, distracted by Maryland and Navy football, the Baltimore Colts, and soccer, is not very...
It is obvious that Sports Illustrated went into Hopkins with its opinion already formed, and tried to fit what it found to its theories. When the article says, "The morale of the Johns Hopkins football squad, understandably, is lackadaisical, even if their playing doesn't show it," distortion is just...
On yet another front, the University of Minnesota has just set back de-emphasis another century or so. For the past few years, Minnesota has been at the bottom of the Big Ten football standing and against participation in bowl games. This season, the Gophers won the conference championship, and...
Behind the Senate's explanation that it wanted to avoid a battle with the State Board of Regents lay the obvious reason: Minnesota, was against other schools' playing in bowls, but was perfectly thrilled to be asked itself.