Ken Foster (Westminster): Global Adminstrative Law: The Next Step for Global Sports Law? From The Society Pages, Kyle Green and Doug Hartmann on politics and sports: Strange, secret bedfellows. Stung by an outspoken critic, the NCAA dishes back — and it's gotten personal. Let’s start paying college athletes: The corrupt, contrived sentimentality of big-time college sports has created a glaring, and increasingly untenable, discrepancy between what players get and what everyone else in their food chain reaps. From eHistory, a review of Pay For Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform by Ronald A. Smith. A bracket through the looking glass: In 1883, Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll created his own tournament format (and more). Will the sports bubble burst? Best-selling author Michael Lewis answers your questions. Sport as a spectacle that blurs — or pretends to blur — the line between participant and observer seems to have taken a peculiarly Postmodern turn; athletes no longer perform for us, increasingly, they perform with us.
