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Transcript: Libertarian Solutions to Sports Dilemmas
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- March 8, 2006
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RENEE MONTAGNE, RENEE MONTAGNE
Morning Edition (NPR)
03-08-2006
Libertarian Solutions to Sports Dilemmas
Host: RENEE MONTAGNE, RENEE MONTAGNE
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM
RENEE MONTAGNE, host:
Sports scandals have led commentator Frank Deford to make a modest proposal.
FRANK DEFORD reporting:
There are two eternal issues in sport where when I grow utterly exasperated, I fall back on libertarian solutions. The issues are drugs and the academic fraud of college athletics. The solution: eliminate all standards; that is, to whit, with drugs, let any athlete take into his body anything his heart desires. After all, arent drugs just another new finer training device, like pure oxygen, or better diet, ...