Athletics Aren't a Luxury at Community Colleges

The report caught me off guard: a terse item, buried in the back of the sports section, announcing that Calhoun Community College, in Decatur, Ala., had discontinued its athletics programs. Even though I'd left coaching two years earlier to pursue a second career in academic administration, I still enjoyed keeping up with old rivals. Calhoun had been the opponent in a 1999 regional semifinal that turned out to be my penultimate game as men's head basketball coach at Alabama Southern Community

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