Topic: Amateur Athletics

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Factivist
Episode 890 3:10:23 - 3:13:04

890: Factivist

NCAA Ethics and Tiger Woods' Arnold Palmer Anecdote

Tiger Woods tells a story on Charlie Rose about being declared ineligible by the NCAA because Arnold Palmer paid for his steak dinner while Woods was a student at Stanford. To regain eligibility, Woods had to write Palmer a $25 check and have it faxed to the NCAA. The hosts use this to illustrate the absurdity of rigid institutional ethics rules.