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Sports Page Becomes Op-Ed Section in Wake of Missouri Football Protests

Sports bore some sports writers. They advertise their professional discontent by turning the sports page into the op-ed section. An underachieving college football team in Columbia, Missouri, this week awarded the failed Grantland Rices the opportunity to become third-rate Mary McGrorys. This, rather than any imaginary civil-rights triumph achieved, compels scribes to scribble love letters to a football team on a four-game losing streak.