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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 11:23 am 
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Reading specialist Mary Willingham says so:

In a CNN story last week, Willingham said her research of 183 football or basketball players at UNC from 2004 to 2012 found 60 percent reading at fourth- to eighth-grade levels and roughly 10 percent below a third-grade level. She said she worked with one men's basketball player early in her 10-year tenure who couldn't read or write.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/10306834/north-carolina-tar-heels-investigating-athlete-literacy-claims-chancellor-says


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 11:25 am 
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Big Chicagoan wrote:
She said she worked with one men's basketball player early in her 10-year tenure who couldn't read or write.

Ra-sheeeeed Wallace!

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at first I read this as "UIC athletes illiterate?" which was going to invoke the obvious response of "....UIC has athletes?"

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When Michael Jordan was asked why he majored in geography at North Carolina, his response: "I knew I would be going places, and I just wanted to know where I was when I got there".

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 4:59 pm 
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bigfan wrote:
When Michael Jordan was asked why he majored in geography at North Carolina, his response: "I knew I would be going places, and I just wanted to know where I was when I got there".


It's a good thing he attended North Carolina instead of Duke or he would have no clue where Mattoon is.

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bigfan wrote:
When Michael Jordan was asked why he majored in geography at North Carolina, his response: "I knew I would be going places, and I just wanted to know where I was when I got there".


Jordan graduated.

I think they will let you in and hang around with no ability but they won't give you that diploma.

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Did Tyler Hansbrough get his degree? He says "lieberry" and "Innananna."

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bigfan wrote:
When Michael Jordan was asked why he majored in geography at North Carolina, his response: "I knew I would be going places, and I just wanted to know where I was when I got there".


It's a good thing he attended North Carolina instead of Duke or he would have no clue where Mattoon is.

:lol: Man, you're having a banner day even by your lofty standards.

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