RealClearSports: This Alum Embarrassed by UCLA Mess

By Art Spander

For RealClearSports.com

So now it's my alma mater, UCLA, that has made a mess of things. But of course. It was inevitable. That's the game colleges play so they can play - no, make that win - the games.

The whole concept of big-time college sports is nonsense anyway. And the fact that participants are labeled student-athletes - what else could they be if they are students and athletes? - doesn't alter the essential fact that we often judge our educational institutions not on the quality of their libraries but on the achievements of their sporting teams.

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