The great illusion about U.S. sportthat its heroes play the game for the fun of itis still as lively as Santa Claus. Yet anyone who thumbed through the sport section of his local newspaper last week found, it full of stories of commercialism that belonged on the business page, or stories of corruption that belonged up front with the other crime news. Examples:
¶ The New York World-Telegram said last week: "The threat of a basketball fix has local colleges so concerned that players are closeted in a hotel room on game days and denied the use of the telephone . ....
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