There have been many changes since Rupert Murdoch has taken over The Wall Street Journal. The one-time premier business newspaper wants to be the #1 regular newspaper. As part of this drive, they have added a sports section. I no longer read sports sections as avidly as I did; in fact, the most I usually do is quickly, very quickly, scan it.
The Journal's sports section seems to me to be an odd one. For example, they predict the winners and scores of the day's baseball games. On Tuesday there was an article on George Steinbrenner as he was portrayed on Seinfeld. However, sometimes their articles do shed a little light on our world and the bizarre things we do. To wit...........
The 'educators' who run college football continue to demonstrate that they are really the minor leagues for the NFL. As such, they have to sell the idea that their particular college is an AAA league team, not a B league team. How else to explain the ACC naming a preseason player of the year? Or Florida State's marketing their quarterback as the next Heisman Trophy winner?
The 'doctors' for professional bicycle racing teams seem to spend a lot of time figuring out ways to make the racers go faster. I deliberately chose 'racers' rather than bikes as doctors have prescribed such things to improve one's speed as wearing a mask soaked in natural alcohol to clean one's sinuses, wearing an ice vest, transporting a bker's bed from stop to stop and, of course, mucking about with diets.
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