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Wisely dropping football, Hofstra can focus on academics

Murray Sperber, a visiting professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley,has written four books on college sports and life, including "Beer & Circus: How Big-time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education."

'Where have you gone, Wayne Chrebet?" No doubt, Hofstra's football fans, in defense of the program, have invoked the name of the former...

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