A Necessary (Re)Introduction
As marquee college athletic programs find themselves sanctioned for infractions involving player recruitment, the answer is unclear but it is definitely a bottom-up (Players-to-Everybody else above them) solution.
Category: Character
The Invisible Nate Robinson
Whether you consider yourself significant or not, the eyes are all around.
Reputation in Dollars
How much is a reputation worth? I’m not sure a price exists. That’s why people bankrupt themselves quite literally to maintain it. How people think of us is translatable to wealth, relationships, playing time on a sports team, credit of course, etc. According to Dictionary.com, character is: the aggregate of features and traits that form …
The Coliseum Revisited
Have professional athletes been reduced by fans to mere gladiators who entertain us?
Michael Vick and Courage not so Ironic
If you played in the National Football League on the same team as convicted dog fighter Michael Vick would you consider him courageous? One step further, would you vote to name Vick the recipient of an award which symbolizes professionalism, great strength and dedication? The Ed Block award represents the essence of sportsmanship and recipients …
Andre Agassi Open
The pressure parents put on children can have adverse effects that lay hidden in the silence of professional athletes like Andre Agassi. How many children are being groomed for the “crash and burn” cycle? Check out Agassi’s candid interview with CBS’ Katie Couric. Watch CBS News Videos Online
Not afraid to divide
If pluralism is a modern watch word, Bobby Knight stopped watching years ago. He’s actually a nice person but anyone who has met him knows that “nice” doesn’t mean blindly cosigning for the status quo that has come to define the culture of NCAA basketball. Coach Knight, who won 902 games as a Division I …