Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:21 PM 4/6/2009, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: >How is it that college sports is so big in the USA? Except for the >Oxford-Cambridge rivalry, nobody gives a s*** for college sports anywhere >else in the known universe.... Well, in the US, we do not have our factories front semi-pro sports teams as is the rule in a lot of Europe. Cultural differences, I guess. I went to a college, Washington & Lee, which has no subsidized athletic scholarships, so we play honestly with student athletes. Then I went to Yale for my MA, where they have an inept program of athletic scholarships. Then I got my JD at William & Mary, which really tries to play, though fruitlessly, in the big leagues. In the end, I feel that W&L did it right. College sports rather bore me. Cricket does not but very few US colleges host cricket teams. There once was professional cricket in the US but its best players went over to baseball once that went professional, and it died around 1890. Marc msmall at aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!