With Syracuse And Pitt To The ACC We Won't See EPIC Big East Tournament Games Like This One Anymore

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The Big East is a powerhouse in basketball. It's filled with bitter rivalries and the tournament is always a must watch.

But the conference is losing two of its best basketball teams to the ACC, and a lot of basketball fans are disappointed, rightfully so.

We certainly won't see games like this in the Big East Tournament at the Garden anymore. Especially if the league deteriorates even more with a possible loss of UConn and Rutgers.

Syracuse t-shirt maker Holy Shirt! put it right: "244 points. 226 minutes. 6 overtimes. 2 days. 1 for the ages."

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Sorry Fellas, Women Aren't Looking To Date Bankers Anymore

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New Obama Economist Alan Krueger Thinks We Don't Need Unions Anymore

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As Neil Munro points out, the cases where incoming Obama economist Alan Krueger agrees with Democratic orthodoxy–the cases the Republican National Committee is emphasizing–aren’t as intriguing as the instances where he’s disagreed.

My favorite so far is this 1992 paper on unionism, which reviews surveys of union and non-union workers and concludes that the decline in union membership between 1977 and 1991 resulted from a “decline in demand for unionization” especially a decline in the percentage of nonunion workers who “would vote for union representation.”

And why the decline in demand?

Our brief analysis suggests that nonunion workers are more likely to report being satisfied with their jobs in 1984 and 1992 than in 1977. … Another possibility is that … the services unions provide are no longer perceived as valuable by nonunion workers …. [E.A.]

Now I’m confused. 

Ezra Klein assured me it was all due to heavy-handed and illegal tactics by union-busting employers. … P.S.:  Since then, of course, much-publicized private-sector union organizing efforts have reversed this trend. You could probably write the same paper today. …

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