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The N.F.L.'s rule on underclassmen should be abolished, and the N.B.A. should be discouraged from adding an age limit.

~David Shields

Topics: Abolish Adding Age Discouraged Limit Rule Should

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I suspect the real reason the N.F.L. and N.B.A. don't want high schoolers and college underclassmen to play with their ball is that they don't want to jeopardize their relationship with National Collegiate Athletic Association, which serves as a sort of free minor league and unpaid promotional department for the pros.

~David Shields

Topics: Association Athletic Ball College Department Free High Jeopardize League Minor National Play Pros Real Real Reason Reason Relationship Serve Sort Suspect Unpaid Want Which

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The N.C.A.A. is a multibillion-dollar business built on the talents of players who are often unqualified for or uninterested in being students and who benefit materially from the system only if they are among the few who turn professional.

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Topics: Among Being Benefit Built Business Few Often Only Players Professional Students System Talents Turn Who

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The individual has now risen to the level of a mini-government or mini-corporation. Via YouTube and Twitter, each of us is our own mini-network.

~David Shields

Topics: Each Individual Level Now Our Own Risen Twitter Us Via Youtube

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The trajectory of nearly all technology follows this downward and widening path: by the time a regular person is able to create his own TV network, it doesn't matter anymore that I have or am on a network.

~David Shields

Topics: Able Am Anymore By The Time Create Downward Follows His Matter Nearly Network Own Path Person Regular Regular Person Technology Time Trajectory Tv Widening

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Nothing really changes: the individual's ability to project his message or throw his weight around remains minuscule.

~David Shields

Topics: Ability Around Changes His Individual Message Nothing Project Really Remains Throw Weight

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I like art with a visible string to the world.

~David Shields

Topics: Art Like String Visible World

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From the first slave ship arriving in harbor, America stole and judged blacks. Black life that didn't fit into white logic was commercially exploited or lynched.

~David Shields

Topics: America Arriving Black Blacks Commercially Exploited First Fit Harbor Judged Life Logic Ship Slave Stole White

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Denied dancing and musical instruments, slaves expressed a hidden tradition of musicality and poetics by tongue and signal.

~David Shields

Topics: Dancing Denied Expressed Hidden Instruments Musical Signal Slaves Tongue Tradition

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I went to graduate school in Iowa City, at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where the most passionate thing I did was attend University of Iowa basketball games.

~David Shields

Topics: Attend Basketball City Did Games Graduate Graduate School Iowa Most Passionate School Thing University Where Workshop Writers

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 22nd, 1956

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