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Frank Deford on Sports: The Hype and the Hypocrisy
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Frank Deford Believes The Olympic Games Are Outdated
04 min 36 secSports journalist Frank Deford considers the Olympics an intrinsically political event which only masquerades in the neutrality of a movement.
The Olympics have become anachronistic in this global age, Deford says, calling it "Nascar with accents." -
Frank Deford on the Hypocrisy of Athletic Scholarships
04 min 20 secSports journalist Frank Deford names athletic scholarships to be the greatest harm to a college education.
Deford believes it is hypocritical to give a quarterback a scholarship for his extracurriculars while denying a pianist the same benefit. -
Frank Deford Witnesses the Power of Sport
03 min 46 secFrank Deford remembers the "unbounded despair" of the poor people in Cameroon when they lost the World Cup to Great Britain.
There, Deford recalls, the power of sport was greater than in any other country. -
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