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The message could not have been clearer … or timelier
Preparing to write this column this week, an article appeared on the front page of the sports section of my local newspaper trumpeting the accomplishments of this season’s Michigan State hockey team.
The Spartan hockey team, which won the national championship in 2007, isn’t having a banner year. In fact, MSU is in the midst of its worst regular season showing in more than 30 years and is battling to stay out of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association cellar.
Instead,… Continue Reading
An Opportunity for College Sports to Seize the Day
In these troubled economic times, with scandals on Wall Street and substance abuse once again rearing its ugly head in major league baseball, Americans are yearning for some pure, honest, loyal heroes to emerge. There is an opportunity for college sports to seize the day. Sparked by President Obama’s call for young Americans to come forward and give of themselves, the playing field is wide open for senior student-athletes in collegiate sports to step up to this challenge across… Continue Reading
The Extraordinary Senior Leader
Four years later. For some, like it was for me, five and feeling ancient, even though at times, still just a baby. You’re a senior in college, and a great one at that. Why are you great? You’re great because you’ve got that special something. You’ve become the one that others looks up to when they need guidance, and the one they look down on when things don’t go as planned. You’ve earned that responsibility. Get used to it—you should have… Continue Reading
Senior Student-Athletes Should Be Hailed for Finishing What They Started
When exactly did we come to the place in collegiate sports where we had to, in some small fashion, defend senior student-athletes?
It seems around every corner someone has to explain the value of a college degree…..to argue in favor of players staying for four or five years to complete both their eligibility and education.
I wholeheartedly agree with Seth Davis when he writes, “he has figured out that the more you learn, the more you realize you don’t know.” I guess… Continue Reading
Staying Put Pays Off
It’s easy to question the loyalty of a student-athlete that decides to skip out after only a season or two, and take their chances on a lucrative pro deal.
But this age-old debate need not get bogged down in such simplicities. Only because athletes are under such a microscope do they hear these kinds of criticisms. Fact is, we are in a free society, where such opportunities should be taken advantage of when they can.
The bigger issue for the student-athlete is determining… Continue Reading