Why College Sports are Better: The Sonics Situation

2
0
Votes
Why College Sports are Better: The Sonics Situation Links2
Dawg Sports found this 7/5/2008 on www.addictedtoquack.com [flag]
I suppose by now you’ve heard about the Sonics leaving Seattle after 41 years.   I’ll spare you the details, because they’re easy to find if you’re interested.   But the Sonics fans got screwed.   Royally.   You’ve heard me talk before about why college sports are better than pro sports.   I’ve spoken of the atmosphere and ... [link]

Tags:

Comments

Links (2)

Basketball is Holding Georgia Back
Published 7/5/2008 by T Kyle King at Dawg Sports
... Rivals.com’s methodology was somewhat confusing---the formula, for instance, states contradictorily that a team gets five points for a third- or fourth-place finish in the College World Series but receives three points for the selfsame third- or fourth-place finish in the College World Series---but, assuming that we are all agreed that intercollegiate athletics are superior to professional sports, I thought it was worth exploring how the Bulldogs fared according to these rankings. ...

Morning Orange Juice, 7.7.08
Published 7/7/2008 by Jake at Building The Dam
... Dave over at Addicted to Quack has a story up regarding his love of college sports and the recent decision to move the Sonics out of Seattle. While I also am a huge college fan and not much of a professional sports fan, Dave's point seems a bit elementary to me. College sports take place at universities. Every university has it's campus. It's not like someone is going to buy out Oregon State, pick the university up and move it to Wyoming. It just isn't going to happen. But with professional teams that are not tied to an academic institution, things like that ...