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October 06, 2009 12:22 PM SUNY Binghamton and the Siren Call of D-I Sports

By Jesse Singal

For those who want a comprehensive, nitty-gritty rundown of the saga of supreme embarrassment that the State University of New York at Binghamton’s basketball team has become, Inside Higher Ed has you covered. Not to be too cute about it, but it does end up reading a bit like an important moral parable on D-I athletics and what they can do to an otherwise mostly upstanding university.

Jesse Singal is a former opinion writer for The Boston Globe and former web editor of the Washington Monthly. He is currently a master's student at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Policy. Follow him on Twitter at @jessesingal.