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Ohio State Prof Apologizes, Agrees To ‘Anti-Racist Learning’ After Penning Article About Liking College Football

Emily Zanotti
Ohio State Prof Apologizes, Agrees To ‘Anti-Racist Learning’ After Penning Article About Liking College Football
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A professor at Ohio State University has penned an extended apology and agreed to a program of “anti-racist” learning after writing an essay for “Inside Higher Ed” extolling the virtues of college football.

The original article, “Why America Needs College Football,” is largely lackluster; it is an essay about how Saturday college football games draw Americans together and provide a necessary distraction from the more difficult aspects of life in 2020 — its “great isolation, division, and uncertainty.”

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