Jay Weiner's (sportswriter for the Star Tribune) article, SPOILED SPORTS is
featured on the front cover. The February 2000 issue is loaded with sports
articles on the demise of the true fan, women's sports, disabled athletes to
neighborhood bowlers with a league of their own and more.
 
Here are some of Weiner's ideas:
 
1.Deprofessionalize college and high school sports.
 
"Let's ban college scholarships in favor of financial aid based on need, as
for any other student. And let's keep high school athletes in perspective.
Why should local news coverage of high school sports exceed coverage  given
to the band, debating society, or science fair? Sports stars are introduced
to the culture of athletic privilege at a very young age."
 
 
2.Allow some form of public ownership of professional sports teams.
3.Make sports affordable again.
 
4. Be conscious of the message sport is sending.
This one is really pertinent to some of the current topics we've thrown
around.
 
"Alcohol-related advertising should be banned from sports broadcasting. Any
male athlete convicted of assaulting a woman should be banned from college or
professional sports. Fighting in a sport should be as least a misdemeanor and
maybe a felony, rather than a five-minute stay in the penalty box.
Let's take the sports establishment by its lapels and shake it back toward
us. Because even with the maddening messages of male dominance, black
servility, homophobia, corporate power, commercialism, and brawn over brains,
sports still play an important role in many lives."
 
And a very Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
 
 
Vicki
 
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