Following my post in which I criticized the questions that ESPN's Stuart Scott asked Barack Obama, I heard from a few readers who wondered what I thought Scott should have asked. For the record, here are some questions that I think would have been better than "If your vice president had to be an athlete, who would you pick?"-- As basketball coach at Oregon State, your brother-in-law makes more money than any professor at the school. Why are public universities that receive taxpayer money treating sports as a more valuable commodity than education?
-- The NCAA makes hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Why doesn't it have to pay taxes on that revenue?
-- Do you believe that males and females are equally interested in sports? If not, why should Title IX force schools to give equal numbers of athletic scholarships to males and females? If so, why doesn't Title IX require schools to offer pay equality between male and female coaches?
--You have the support of Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney. Would it be OK with you if Mr. Rooney's family has to sell the Steelers when he dies to pay the estate taxes?
--Sen. Arlen Specter has suggested that legislation is needed to strip the NFL of the antitrust exemption that allows the 32 teams to negotiate television contracts collectively. Would you sign such legislation?
--The federal government has cracked down on online sports gambling. Why is it the federal government's business whether people, in the privacy of their own homes and with their own money, log on and wager on a sporting event?
