Disclaimer: The author should note he is wearing an Ohio State national championship (football) t-shirt. That said, I'm at best a casual fan of OSU basketball, which has fallen into disrepute recently because of blatant NCAA violations.

OK, so, the NCAA has slammed Jim O'Brien, Ohio State's former basketball head coach, and Ohio State. They've ordered the school to remove any mention of their trip to the 1999 Final Four, because they were playing with an ineligible player. And so they'll change a penant currently hanging in their arena mentioning they made that trip.

But, here's the quote from SI's article on the subject that got me: "[R]ecord books will be blotted out to eradicate pictures and statistics for the four tournament teams that included an ineligible player..."

Blotting out pictures? Didn't we get over that with, like, Stalin standing on Lenin's Tomb?

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, draconian, thy name is NCAA.