How Athletes Justify Poor Sportsmanship Say What?
COLLEGIATE SPORTS Secretary of Education Blasts NCAA and NBA At last month’s NCAA annual convention in Atlanta, Education Secretary Arne Duncan scolded the NCAA for not graduating more athletes; called the NBA’s age rule, which requires players to be at least 19 years old and one year removed from high school before they can enter the league, a “farce” and “intellectually dishonest”; and denounced “renegade coaches” who “run a program into the ground, get in trouble, and then move on – often at a much higher salary.” Duncan, who was co-captain of his Harvard basketball team, asked, “Why do we allow the NCAA, why do we allow universities, why do we allow sports to be tainted when the vast majority of coaches and athletic directors are striving to instill the right values?” Citing the fact that 25 percent of teams in last season’s men’s basketball tournament graduated fewer than 40 percent of their players, Duncan said, “If you can’t graduate two out of five of your players, what are the
