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King Kaufman's Sports Daily: Day 1 of the NCAA Tournament provides no shocking upsets, which may be an endangered species anyway.; Mar 19, 2004
King Kaufman's Sports Daily: That multiple-choice final Georgia basketball players had to take was harder than you might think. "How many points for a 3-pointer?" Hmm ...; Mar 5, 2004
King Kaufman's Sports Daily: The "Enronic" nature of sex- and booze-soaked college sports programs. Plus: ESPN's "Dream Job" and Stuart Scott -- boo-yah or bum-rush? The readers write.; Feb 25, 2004
King Kaufman's Sports Daily: Sex parties, booze for high schoolers, rape. It's all in a night's recruiting at Colorado, several women say. How sad that none of this is shocking.; Feb 20, 2004
King Kaufman's Sports Daily: Bob Knight is getting the same treatment at Texas Tech that he got at Indiana. So after 26 more years of awful behavior, he'll be toast. Plus: ESPN loses its nerve with "Playmakers."; Feb 5, 2004
King Kaufman's Sports Daily: When nitpickers go bad: How could Frank Deford forget the Watson sisters in 1884? Plus: 48 words about hockey. And: LSU vs. USC? Nah!; Jan 15, 2004
King Kaufman's Sports Daily: College football's national champion is revealed at last! Plus: A sleeper in Seattle? And: No one mentions it, but O.J. Simpson still had the best rushing season ever.; Jan 7, 2004
King Kaufman's Sports Daily: "We have become revenue addicts." An interview with Tulane president Scott Cowen, who says reforming college sports is a pipe dream worth chasing.; Nov 20, 2003
King Kaufman's Sports Daily: You're not going to believe this: The NCAA is all about money. And you're really not going to believe this: Someone has admitted it!; Sep 18, 2003
King Kaufman's Sports Daily: The readers write: Maurice Clarett and other college stars don't play for free. They get a chance at an education, and that's worth something.; Aug 19, 2003
King Kaufman's Sports Daily: Maurice Clarett, the suspended Ohio State star, isn't evil. He's just trying to take what he can from an evil enterprise he can't yet escape.; Aug 18, 2003
King Kaufman's Sports Daily: Greed comes out of the closet: At least the ACC is honest about its cash-grab expansion plans.; Jun 23, 2003
NBA to rescue Final Four?: Don't you believe it. The league's likely new age limit will help owners' bottom lines, not college hoops.; By King Kaufman Apr 4, 2003
Do away with athletic scholarships: If it really wants to clean up the corrupt mess that is college athletics, the NCAA has to be prepared to go all the way. Plus: A goodbye.; By Allen Barra Mar 15, 2003
The innocent pay for the crimes: The NCAA needs to find a way to punish corrupt coaches and players without hurting kids who did no wrong.; By King Kaufman Mar 14, 2003
The high price of scandal: The solution to the rampant corruption in college sports might be to pay the players. It's a controversial idea -- and it's gaining ground.; By King Kaufman Mar 8, 2003
Stop the holy showboating: Listen up, jocks: God doesn't care if you score a touchdown. So do your praying in private, not in the end zone.; By Dan McGraw Sep 28, 2002
The corporate sports rip-off: Why are taxpayers still subsidizing professional football and basketball?; By Allen Barra Apr 24, 2002
Forecasting the final four: Moving courageously beyond his earlier botched NCAA predictions, our man picks Kansas and Oklahoma.; By King Kaufman Mar 27, 2002
Half measures: The last few minutes before halftime are too valuable to keep your best player on the bench. Coach Jim Calhoun didn't realize that, and his UConn Huskies are not in the Final Four.; By King Kaufman Mar 25, 2002
Where there's a Williams, no way: A pair of heroes from the Land of Lincoln have subpar games as their teams get bounced from the Tournament.; By King Kaufman Mar 23, 2002
The choker: In addition to giving an excellent throat massage, Bobby Knight is a world-class whiner and excuse-maker -- and his teams keep losing, too.; By Allen Barra Mar 20, 2002
March lameness: The NCAA Tournament has too many teams -- and an unstoppable hype machine.; By Allen Barra Mar 14, 2002
Vince Carter gets an F: The NBA, which cares about higher education only as a source of player development, hypocritically praises the Toronto Raptors star's graduationn side trip.; By Allen Barra May 23, 2001
General soreness: Why don't the players Bob Knight kicked off the Texas Tech basketball team have any rights? And why doesn't the media care?; By Allen Barra Apr 4, 2001

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