Is excess ever so excessive as to be excessive? Friday and weekend newspapers worship excessive excess and this appears to be another example. Oregon Embraces ‘University of Nike’ Image The Football Performance Center, which was unveiled publicly this week, is as much country club as football facility, potentially mistaken for a day spa, or an art gallery, or a sports history museum, or a spaceship — and is luxurious enough to make N.F.L. teams jealous. It is, more than anything, a testament to college football’s arms race, to the billions of dollars at stake and to the lengths that universities will go to field elite football programs. nytimes/2013/08/03/sports/ncaafootball/oregon-football-complex-is-glittering-monument-to-ducks-ambitions.html?ref=sports&_r=0
Posted on: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 13:18:07 +0000
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