648. The Merger You Never Knew You Wanted
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66 min
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2 min
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Stephen Dubner proposes merging NFL with NCAA football and NBA with college basketball, creating promotion-relegation systems like European soccer leagues to address current problems in American sports.
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Dominique Foxworth recalls his freshman year at Maryland when coaches received free Cadillacs for a successful season while players got only DVD players and sweatshirts despite generating millions.
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