Extra points. (Here Below).RATIONALIZING THE American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of passion for football can be a brain-numbing process. The game can be brutal. Coaches may cheat. Its philosophers exalt the game's capacity for manufacturing discipline, character, leadership, and holiness. Football has also become a cottage industry cottage industry: see sweating system. in which universities will regularly sell out their 100,000 seats and then report budgetary losses for the year, and where a. Far West college will spend $400,000 for a billboard in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. plugging its quarterback for the Heisman Trophy Heisman Trophy Annual award given to the outstanding college gridiron football player in the U.S. The trophy was instituted in 1935 by New York City's Downtown Athletic Club and was officially named the following year for the club's first athletic director, the player-coach . All of this is discomforting to the many people who love the sport and feel helpless trying to justify it. Question: How do you justify a system of higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. that tolerates dubious testing procedures, recruiting excesses, and 85 free rides? It isn't easy. And yet... this is the same system that has produced three presidents (Eisenhower, Ford, and Reagan), a Supreme Court justice (Byron "Whizzer" White), and hundreds of senators, governors, business tycoons, entertainers, and other national figures. Football is 76 trombones, tail-gate parties, golden memories, and a sport that always exhilarates us, enthralls us, and captures our hearts. You don't have to draw pictures or make speeches. It all comes with the franchise known as American sport. It is the spring in all of our lives played out in the autumn of all of our years. |
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