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Rip Off! Academic College Students Forced to Subsidize Big-Time Athletic Programs

By Diane M. Grassi

The term “redistribution of wealth” has become a well-known and familiar phrase bandied about amongst political elite and used as a wedge issue to conveniently spin U.S. federal and state economic policy. And yet implementation of such policies stretches well beyond the Beltway or state houses.

To wit, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) brings new meaning to redistributing wealth, that might surprise many a passionate fan of big-time Division I college and university football and basketball.

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4/10/13 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: The Best

RJ joins Vin and Ryan in the booth as they discuss the best NFL play of all time, The Final Four, and the Rutgers scandal.

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This week’s topics include:

  • The Final Four
  • Best NFL play of all time
  • Four gay players ready to come out
  • The Rutgers Rice scandal
  • Peyton Siva forgets to thank his ho
  • A little basbeall talk
  • Top nicknames

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4/3/13 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: Jumping Ship

Ryan and Vin discuss tournament fatigue, pick the final 3 games and catch up on some old 80s sitcoms.

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This week’s topics include:

  • The NCAA tournament
  • More Big East bias?
  • Kevin Ware injury
  • Andy Enfield bolts for USC
  • Rutgers fires their basketball coach / snitches
  • Danny Ainge needs to STFU
  • Top black sitcoms of all time

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3/28 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: Big East Bias

Ryan and Vin demonstrate their east coast bias predicting the 3rd and 4th round of the NCAA tournament, who would be the best player to come out in the NFL, and the Heat’s winning streak.

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This week’s topics include:

  • The NCAA tournament
  • NCAA tournament predictions
  • Florida Gulf Coast
  • Whether LeBron could lead a mediocre team to the NCAA championship
  • Which player would be the best to come out as gay in the NFL
  • Old people driving

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3/28 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: Winning Steak Of 1

A fast and furious show this week and Ryan and Vin cover about 100 stories in 90 mins.

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This week’s topics include:

  • Amare Stoudamire’s unfortunate injury
  • Final Four & has this tourney been a letdown?
  • Violence at the dialysis clinic
  • Miami Heat and Trayvon Martin
  • Letting women into Augusta
  • Bill Parcells to coach the Saints.
  • NFL to review every turnover, every pass, every run, and every kick
  • How much is Magic Johnson worth?
  • Guess the Country

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3/21 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: Never Suspended

Ryan and Vin pick discuss the Saints suspensions, Tebow to the Jets, and the NCAA tourney.

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This week’s topics include:

  • Sean Payton suspended for a year; Gregg Williams indefinitely
  • Tebow to the Jets
  • Manning signs with the Broncos
  • Recapping the first two rounds of the tourney
  • The Top Ten List: Sports suspensions
  • Hockey hipsters in Brooklyn
  • Guess the State

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3/14 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: 2012 Tourney Picks

Ryan and Vin pick the first two rounds of the NCAA Men’s Tournament using their patented picking method.

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This week’s topics include:

  • St Patty’s Day
  • Who drove Mike D’Antoni out of NY?
  • Santorum Sweeping the South
  • Top 10 Names in the NCAA Tournmanet
  • The 2012 NCAA Tournament Picks
  • Dead Man’s Switch

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3/17 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: Cricket

It’s the greatest day of the year so we did a combined Poor Man’s PTI and Obscure Sports Weekly show to give our picks for the tourney. (Well, mostly Vin and Ryan just hijacked Burton’s Wednesday time slot.)

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This week’s topics include:

  • NCAA Tournament
  • The Tourney
  • College basketball
  • Brackets
  • Hoops
  • Ryan’s Top Ten List of People he wants to punch in the tourney
  • Some other stuff

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3/3 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: No Honor Codes Here

Vin and RJ discuss all the sports news that’s available during the sports dead zone that is early March.

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Sports Chained to Big Business, Gambling & Corruption

By Diane M. Grassi

The title of this report may come as no revelation to avid sports fans, business movers and shakers, and the politically connected, but every once in a while, it is worth taking stock of those most prominent in a field ripe for deception, deniability, and its penchant for unaccountability.

While the names Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Derek Jeter need no introduction, even to non-sports fans, few people would ably recognize the name Ted Forstmann. Forstmann reigns over arguably the most powerful agency in all of sports and Hollywood and represents the individual interests of the likes of Messrs. Woods, Federer, Nadal, and Jeter.