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This column comes the day after Tucker Carlson said Mike Vick should have been executed for his treatment of dogs and the Sugar Bowl CEO admitted he lobbied Ohio State to keep its players eligible to "protect the integrity" of the game. Protect the integrity of the bowl game at the expense of a university and NCAA integrity? Makes perfect sense in the Alice in Wonderland through the looking glass world of college football. Execute someone for a low end felony? Equally absurd rationale. Both of these stories serve as further evidence that 2010 represents the most absurd year in the history of sports.
Why has absurdity flourished more this year? Because 2010 brought the fulfillment of the Internet as the driving force in sporting life. Rack your brains, where did virtually every story break that was of significance in the sports universe? Online, right? The immediacy of information and the constant race to draw attention can mean that some stories end up incorrect -- Jim Tressel's retirement, anyone? -- but it also means that stories hit fast. And titillation rules.
Partly you can give a tip of the beaver pelt to the aggressiveness of online media in covering issues that your average paper or ESPN wouldn't. Does Brett Favre's penis pic set to video end up on the New York Times' website first? Nope. But will the NYT and every other media outlet, including ESPN, cover it with gusto once it's out there and the accused comment on it? Yep.
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