Is it acceptable for a team to purposely lose games to get a higher draft pick? That was a topic on Comcast SportsNet Chicago last week, and it was “inspired’’ by the White Sox, who were suddenly winning games after spending more than four months being godawful. If they were going to be bad, the idea went, they might as well be really, really bad to help themselves in the draft. Most of us on the “Sports-Talk Live’’ panel said tanking was morally wrong, but host David Kaplan suggested that if the 1997Bears had concentrated on it, Peyton Manning might …
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