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William Watson: Universities should not do pro sports
More high-profile U.S. universities are paying their intercollegiate athletes. Canadian schools shouldn't copy that trend
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“I went to a fight the other day and a hockey game broke out” is an old joke from the 1970s, when there was almost a fight a game in the National Hockey League. Now there’s less than one every five games, so the joke has less currency.
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But you might replace it with “I went to a professional football game the other day and a university appeared” — though dimly, off in the........