It's a sign of our society that Rick Pitino is apparently out as Louisville's basketball coach because some of his players apparently took tens of thousands of dollars from a shoe company funneled through assistant coaches.
It's not that money has somehow corrupted college sports. That happened decades ago, because college sports generate a lot of money and the "student-athletes" aren't supposed to get any of it. There's a natural temptation for coaches and boosters to figure out a way to cut in certain players to entice them to go to their school.
CAMBRIDGE — The Cambridgeport Elementary School librarian, who triggered a firestorm of criticism after penning an open letter in which she laid out her political reasons for not accepting a gift of 10 Dr. Seuss books from First Lady Melania Trump, apparently forgot that the Internet has a memory strong enough to make Babar the Elephant blush.
In her widely-circulated blog post, titled "Dear Mrs. Trump," Liz Phipps Soeiro not only condemns the leadership of Education Department Secretary Betsy DeVos, whom she claims "maligns" and "marginalizes" public school districts, she also makes the jarring claim that Dr. Seuss's books are inherently racist.
