When the money gets so big, corruption is bound to follow. And that's exactly what's happening in the world of sport.

Lance Armstrong--- American hero, cancer survivor, multiple-winner of bicycling's biggest competitions --- turned out to be a doper, who is now stripped of his medals.  This morning we learn that Brady of the lauded New England Patriots most likely conspired with two locker room guys to create Deflategate.  

Higher Ed is not immune.  The revelations about UNC phantom courses to facilitate athletes' eligibility demonstrated that.  So, not long ago, did the Penn State debacle, arising form the long-time coverup of Assistant Coach Sandusky's pedophilia.

A multitude of malignant symptoms are resulting from the corruption of sport by too much money.  The NLRB's decision that Northwestern University's football players are employees who can unionize, and the recent class-action suite against the NCAA and its Division I schools, brought by a former soccer player and contending that all DI athletes should earn the minimum wage, are two notable examples.

When the average salary of a Major League Baseball player tops $4-mil per year, something is out of whack.  Invoke the mantra of "market forces" all you want.  But you are not going to convince me otherwise... not in the face of all these instances of corrupt behavior in the quest for every more money.

What has me scratching my head is why the fans keep shelling out their hard-earned dollars to support these corruptions of the "Sport."  Why not get off your fat fannies and lose some weight by engaging in athletics yourselves?  That might be a source of person pride.

I heard one New England Patriots fan this morning say on NPR, "We are not cheaters."  Who the heck are "we"?  Does this guy seriously believe he is a part of the Patriots because he spends thousands of dollars a year to attend the games?  How naive can a person be?