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In the increasingly cynical world of big-time sports--which are businesses that try to pretend they're just games, peopled by too many phonies who get passed off as heroes--the U.S. women were precisely what they appeared to be: An authentic team.
Post-college, Daniel worked as runner for a big-time bookie.
It's that they don't study with the ferociousness and all-out commitment of people who realize (or who have parents who realize) that outstanding school performance is their one shot at big-time opportunity in America.
He complains that a few powerful schools are aligning themselves to take a larger slice of the revenues generated by big-time college athletics and bemoans the small colleges whose athletic programs will be destroyed by this.
Ken Bode, moderator of PBS' journalists round-table, Washington Week in Review , spelled out the case for defilement right after the story broke that big-time campaign money would get you booked overnight with Honest Abe.