a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by teamramonycajal
teamramonycajal  ·  3973 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: College Football's State of Union

College sports played on this level are so distinctly American. Wikipedia's article seems to give a reasonable overview - essentially, except for Mexico's university-affiliated association football (soccer) teams (which may be more like, say, Romania's teams in that they're more kinda sponsored by the university, I think, and not necessarily the university's team), university-level athletics seem to be run at the level of club sports or lesser-publicized intercollegiate sports like softball and cross country.

The US appears to be the lone entity that's made it into a gigantic industry.