‘Flutie’ Mooted
To the Editor:
In “Do They Really Want to Be Like Rutgers?” [April 9], Terry Golway wrote: “More than 20 years ago, dozens of colleges and universities around the country tried to take a page from Boston College, birthplace of the so-called ‘Flutie Effect.’ As writer Murray Sperber, a retired professor of American Read More
We’re coming up on Super Bowl time again, after which
football will drop out of sight until next autumn. Or perhaps I should say ought to drop out of sight, but may not
if well-known players are arrested for murder and lesser crimes, as was the
case in 2000, which seemed to be a particularly Read More
When the egregious Bob Knight finally was dismissed from his job as head basketball coach at Indiana University last month, idle students were inspired to come out from behind their beer kegs and show their outrage. One of these passionate campus rebels poured out his heart to a reporter. “All the freshmen, we came here Read More
