Kemba Walker Reads First Book

Kemba Walker, the UConn guard who led his team to the NCAA Title and is preparing to graduate after three years at school, recently realized another major life accomplishment: he read his first book. According to Sports Illustrated, Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete by William C. Rhoden is admittedly the first book Kemba has read from cover-to-cover upon recommendation from an academic counselor. My personal first was The Little Engine That Could so I give Kemba a lot of credit for picking a tough one to start with. Apparently, you don't need to do much reading to get your sociology degree at UConn. I figured he would have majored in something easier like recreational studies. I think that's what Van Wilder did.

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Why College Basketball Sucks

This year's barnburning NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Game featured a team that went 21-9 in the regular season and made 12 shots while shooting less than 19% from the field. The other program is under three years' probation and their coach is suspended for their first three conference games next year for "failing to create an atmosphere of compliance." The game epitomized everything that is wrong with the sport. It still has its defenders but since more underclassmen started jumping to the NBA in the mid 90's, the product has really suffered. It is vastly inferior to the pro game and borders on unwatchable. In addition, the NCAA and the schools are corrupt and the athletes aren't devoid of blame either.