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This week, what else? The turmoil over Greenland.

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through the miracle of Riverside, none other than Annie McArty. Rich, how are you?

Good, Andy. How are you? Good. You were right about Miami. They gave Indiana a much better game

than anyone else. Yeah, I never expected them to be on the verge of winning. I mean,

they really could have won that game. I have to say it's a vindication of the playoff format, because if you'd pick the top four teams or top eight teams, you never would have put Miami in there. They're a little bit marginal. They're clearly the best team of the ACC, and you want a representative for the

ACC, but no one would have thought, right, that Miami would have been on the verge of winning

the national championship. They just proved to be better than people expected. Yeah, I think that I've

now started to pay a lot more attention to this. I did a piece for the magazine over the summer about

college football.

And actually the, I guess it's kind of the gradual erosion of the idea of amateur college sports.

So I did that.

I don't know, like July, August or so I feel like I was doing the

research on it. And it was a revelation to somebody like me who I've always been a sports nut and I've

always followed college sports. But the business of the sports has never been of much

interest to me. So, you know, as long as the games are on, I don't have time for all that other stuff.

So now I've gotten into it because I had to do research to write the piece.

And I think we'll look back, you know, a decade from now, maybe less than that, and to see that the introduction of paying the athletes and especially the portal, the imposition by the Supreme Court basically of antitrust principles on sports under circumstances where Congress hasn't or won't act to give

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