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Guest AuthorMay 1, 2014

Heisman trophy winner Jameis Winston is in the news again — starring in the clichéd role of troubled star athlete. Winston was caught on camera this week walking out of a Tallahassee Publix supermarket with $32.72 worth of crab legs and crawfish he now admits he shoplifted. He must send a Thank You note to […]

Guest AuthorApril 17, 2014

There might not have been any new bombshells in this week’s New York Times investigative piece on the Jameis Winston rape allegations, but when the pieces are put together in one coherent narrative, they make this entire episode even more disquieting than we first suspected. What comes across in The Times’ piece, written by Pulitzer […]

Martin DyckmanJanuary 12, 2014

A political cartoon some years ago depicted a couple of men looking out of the National Press Building at a mushroom cloud boiling up over Washington. “How will this affect the Iowa caucuses?” says one. The same sort of journalistic myopia has characterized much of the Jameis Winston saga. The sports pages obsessed with whether […]

Peter SchorschJanuary 12, 2014

A headline from The Onion spread via social media Thursday announced, “Florida State to Phase Out Academic Operations By 2010.” The piece, obviously in jest, continued: “Bowing to pressure from alumni, students, and a majority of teaching professors of Florida State University, athletic director Dave Hart Jr. announced yesterday that FSU would completely phase out all academic […]

Peter SchorschDecember 16, 2013

Florida State may be ranked No. 1 heading into the bowl championship with Auburn, but there’s one ranking for which the Seminoles trail far behind: the percent of black football players who will graduate from college within six years. The University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Study of Race and Equity analyzed each of the football teams […]

Guest AuthorNovember 25, 2013

In this football-mad state capital, Famous Jameis Winston is so much more important than Rick Scott, and what goes on at Doak Campbell Stadium is more relevant than happenings at the Capitol. There are probably more prayers being offered from pulpits for the Florida State quarterback than for the stricken people of the Philippines. Yes, […]

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Andrew Skerritt: It appears that Winston has not learned from recent events

Andrew Skerritt: Details of Jameis Winston case even more troubling than first suspected

Martin Dyckman: Authorities responded poorly in Jameis Winston case

Peter Schorsch: Completing college is as important as completing passes

Peter Schorsch: FSU must do more to help black football players graduate

Andrew Skerritt: Football fanaticism skews our sense of right and wrong