Links for 2011-07-04

"I like baseball.  Well, technically, I like laying on the couch for three hours half-awake eating potato chips and mumbling obscenities at the television.  But let's not split hairs here.

Anyway, out of curiosity and in partial atonement for the sins of my past [1] I would now like to do a quick calculation to see how much effect the Coriolis force has on a home-run ball."

"The latest math on the revenue breakdown looks something like this: Coaches, schools and administrators get nearly 100 percent of the cash. Athletes get zilch.

Yes, the kids get a scholarship, and I've made it clear here before, a college education is an invaluable asset and should not be dismissed by athletes who think they're being "exploited.'' But all those millions coming into Texas for the next Texas TV network, all of it goes into the deep pockets in Austin. All those Big Ten Network millions coming to conference schools go back into the athletic departments.

If there should be a labor stoppage anywhere in sports, it ought to be at the collegiate level. "