Swingggggg And A Miss!  - Might Casey strikes out. - Tiger hits
one into the rough. - Michael Jordan heaves a brick. - â€œWide
Rightâ€ defines one of the key rivalries of the 90â€™s. - Frank
Deford pens a pile of garbage.  Even though Deford is one of the
most renowned print journalists of his era, he threw up a real
clunker when he decided that college athletes need to be paid.
Letâ€™s look at Defordâ€™s thesis:  It is perfectly
unconscionable that big-time college football and basketball
players go unpaid. They are employees, and deserve to be paid
based on the National Labor Relations Act.  Ignoring his thesis
for a moment, here are a few reasons why I call the Deford
article garbage:  - He makes almost no legitimate effort to
defend his thesis. - He makes no attempt at providing an even
and fair presentation of the issue. - He makes no effort to show
how a New Deal law protecting the rights of workers to form
unions somehow applies to college athletes. - He doesnâ€™t
discuss the logical consequences of p