Wednesday, July 17, 2013

You Gotta Hate $ports!

It's the concepts they push and the money that control them that have ruined "play."

"State, city agencies probing schools’ athletics spending; 3 agencies examine Boston purchases" by James Vaznis |  Globe Staff, July 17, 2013

As the Boston school district attempts to bring in more donations to beef up its sports programs, its athletics department is being targeted by three investigations into potential misspending of funds related to the purchase of equipment and supplies.

Please, no. Not at this level.

The exact nature of the investigations — which are being conducted by Boston police, the Massachusetts inspector general’s office, and the Boston Finance Commission — remains unclear.

The investigating agencies declined to share details, and the School Department denied a Globe public records request for a copy of an audit of spending on athletics, saying it was not finished and could not be shared anyway because of “an ongoing law enforcement investigation.”

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The city has been aggressively trying to raise the profile of its athletics program after a Globe series four years ago that detailed deep-rooted inadequacies in equipment, facilities, coaching, and academic eligibility in the city’s high school sports programs....

How can the sports programs be underfunded when Boston is the only part of the state that is booming? I mean, we all lost jobs in April, May, and June.

Related: Ya Gotta Love Sports!

Not when they are filled with looting and corruption.

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Yes, kids, the SAD REALIZATION is that the GREEDY MONEY-LOVERS have INFILTRATED EVERY RUNG of RULING SOCIETY, be it school, town, city, county, state, or federal government and institutions.  

They stole the kids' sports money?