"Tommy Amaker Lowers Standards at Harvard" That's the headline on this AOL Sports column about Harvard's basketball scandal.....

The commenters, just for the record, vigorously disagree.

1. Thamel is never one to let the facts ruin a zesty story .... but did you notice that, buried below all the snide comments is the muted concession that after all the "lowering of standards", the grades and SAT scores for the Harvard basketball team will still be higher than at any of the other Ivies - including Princeton, Penn and Yale?

Actually, the article doesn't quite say that; it says that before Amaker arrived, Harvard's basketball team had the highest average academic index of any of the Ivy League schools. That could still be true this year should the really low-ranking kids choose to go elsewhere and a few very high-scoring kids come to Harvard.  ¶ 5:55 PM