[Henchster]

Ms Willingham also discovered that up to ONLY 25 per cent of basketball and football athletes did not have the reading level to study at a community college, let alone at a university.

I had to correct that line, because the scariest thing about this report is that you only need to read at a level somewhere between 4th and 8th grade to study at the community college level.

[ridesthemiles]

Every time I hear a live interview with a star athlete, I cringe.

I went to a one room school in rural Wisconsin.

None of them can speak as well as all of us could at the end of the 3rd grade.