Yeah, I definitely agree with the spirit of your statements — especially good point about Thorpe!
I, too, was an NCAA “student-athlete,” but in a non-revenue sport...I wonder if they still own my likeness?
Yeah, I definitely agree with the spirit of your statements — especially good point about Thorpe!
I, too, was an NCAA “student-athlete,” but in a non-revenue sport...I wonder if they still own my likeness?
This is not entirely accurate, and ignores the contestation over governance of elite international sport during the late 1980s/early 1990s (and before that when considering how the 1930s FIFA-IOC squabbles that led to the Olympics being a U23 tourney for men rather than a senior tourney). The liberalization of amateur…
Yes revenge can feel good, but should public policy be dictated by feeling more than intellect or logic?
Please tell me you meant to add an apostrophe after “coworkers”... otherwise I don’t think this comment says what you want it to say — about you or your coworkers.
He didn’t win an MVP. His best year was 2012, when he won the Silver Slugger, a Gold Glove, & finished 6th in the MVP voting that year, well behind Buster Posey. He had a decent career, but he apparently won no other major awards in any other year. (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/laro…).