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Well before the scandal, the nationally ranked team had a reputation for a swaggering sense of entitlement and boorish frat-boy behavior that included public intoxication and public urination. After the scandal broke, the university announced an investigation into whether it put up with such behavior for too long.

Campuses and Crawlspaces ... where all manner of creepycrawlies live. With the tendency, post Nov 2, to assign red or blue colors to every segment of American society, no locale is more universally “blue” than the college campus. If you find an admitted Conservative on a college campus you can bet he’s either attending a football game or repairing a faulty Xerox machine. BobLee takes some comfort in this territorial absolute. Here in North Carolina, we are almost solidly red. You are probably thinking that John Edwards likely carried his home precinct. Heck no, John’s home precinct went 80% Red....

High Time for Heroes Celebrating good guys in sports. Brawls, Steroids, Lockouts ... sniff, sigh, sob! BobLee has been in a funk. It seems that sports (as a mirror of society) gets into these gloomy gulches where all we read about are “bad guys being bad guys” … I understand that no one cares how many planes did NOT crash yesterday, but I went looking for some old fashioned “sports heroes” to cheer for… I found some! An interesting reoccurring theme from you readers … you have marginal to no interest in the NBA. Yes, you read the headlines and...

College Football underwent a major “epiphany” this week. It wasn’t WHAT but WHO did it that is significant. No academic institution likes to admit it’s a shameless whore to the rude, crude, and boorish Fat Cats and flapdoodles in its fan base. They wait for someone else to officially lower the bar … then the other 116 schools que up in the limbo line. How low can we go? When something “outrageous” happens at “a football factory” the rest of the sports nation giggles, rolls their eyes proclaiming “things like THAT don’t happen at dear Ol’ WhatsAMatter U … we...