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OT: "Real Sports" with Bryant Gumbel to hammer Academics
Tuesday night on HBO.

Here's the link from the NY Post about the segment scheduled for tomorrow night: "Academic Corruption continues"

Real Sports segment an eye-opener
"Given that HBO has no NCAA deals to stop it, and given that your better senses likely can handle the ugliest of truths, watch “Real Sports” Tuesday night at 10, featuring Bernard Goldberg’s piece on the staggering, worsening academic corruption on behalf of football and basketball at Baylor, Oklahoma, Memphis, Iowa State and North Carolina — all NCAA Tournament qualifiers."


LINK: From the Carolina News Observer

The segment, reported by Bernard Goldberg and produced by Josh Fine, looks at how lower admission standards, coupled with higher graduation requirements, have required many top schools to commit to learning specialists to ensure student athletes can keep up. Goldberg interviews Mary Willingham, a UNC whistle-blower who formerly worked with athletes. Willingham has claimed to have data showing that 60 percent of 183 athletes at UNC, specially tested over an eight-year period, could not read at the high school level and that another 10 percent could not read above the third-grade level. Goldberg also interviews two football players from the university – Michael McAdoo and Bryan Bishop.

“Real Sports” says its investigative team spent six months vetting multi-million dollar academic advising centers, which are responsible for helping student-athletes with “elementary educations” graduate from college. In addition to UNC, the episode looks at programs at the University of Memphis and University of Oklahoma.
(This post was last modified: 03-24-2014 09:09 PM by TG4.)
03-24-2014 08:20 PM
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