I'm trying to imagine how quickly a sportswriter would be ostracized for telling a bunch of journalism students that he or she got into sportswriting because they always wanted to hang around athletes. To be sure, some of them act that way, but saying it out loud is insane.

Collegiate sports. Elsewhere the purpose of higher ed is...education.

Keegan's book was sitting on my nightstand and hubby had to move it to the other room. It was bugging me, too. (Love Keegs, I'm sure the book is great, but... too soon)

Whoa, I can't unsee this now

Begs the argument, though, that maybe I loved music (band nerd here), chemistry and biology because the teachers were awesome.

(I flunked out, subsequently aced the medical lab technician program at college, and got hired out of my internship into an awesome job. Something's wrong with how we stream kids into post-secondary education.)

Relatable. History was ruined for me because the teacher was the football coach. He had His Guys, and then the rest of us, he treated pretty crappily. I can't even answer the quoted post; not one particularly good teacher of subjects I didn't like.

We took professional sports - a job that is, by its very nature, one of the most high-stress, unhealthy things you can do for a living - and then added the ability for the most unsavory, unhinged freaks on Earth to tie their life savings to you, and threaten your family, without leaving their couch