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George F. Will: The madness of college hoops’ amateurism

Washington - Appropriately, during the crescendo of this college basketball season, in which the most significant event was a shoe malfunction, a lawyer whose best-known client was a pornographic actress was indicted for threatening to shrink a shoe company’s market capitalization by making allegations about the company misbehaving in the meat market for a small number of tall “student-athletes.” What counts as misbehavior in this swamp is a murky subject.

Zion Williamson is a "one-and-done" superstar at Duke, a university (one can lose sight of this fact) that aspires to be worthy of its basketball program.