There was a time, in the distant past, when boxing was called the red-light district of sports in this country. Now it is college football, and that doesn’t just mean a gold-plated phony like Lane Kiffin and the gold-plated phonies from LSU who just hired him. It means all of them: Coaches and college presidents and athletic directors and the players who move around the way Kiffin does, just for less money. At least they don’t make it sound like a higher calling.

Kiffin – before he commenced praying about taking the money – got offended the other day, inferring that a sportswriter was calling him a “hoe.” That really is a good one, especially at this time of year. Hoe, hoe, hoe to all of them.

Even more than college basketball, where you can throw money around and change your entire rost

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