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...most glaring of those questions comes on the defensive line, where junior Brenton Bryant and his older brother Desmond were both missing from the recently-released fall roster. Murphy confirmed that the brothers were both forced to take a year off by the University for separate, unrelated academic reasons...
...equivalent of a pulled groin, an injury that lingers but is usually overcome. Americans generally, but sports fans especially, are a forgive-and-forget bunch, for whom hope always springs eternal for next season, regardless of their team's performance the previous year. Remember how the public disparaged Kobe Bryant when he stood trial for rape in 2003? Guess who had the NBA's best-selling jersey last season...
LOOKING AHEAD The power of word choice (an issue in Kobe Bryant's rape trial as well) could eventually end up before the Supreme Court...
...burgeoning international interest in sepak takraw won't catapult their players into the stratospheric income brackets of a Thierry Henry or Kobe Bryant, but it could turn them into decently paid professionals. At present, a top player in the Thai league, the sport's most developed, will earn a rough maximum of $15,000 for a four-month season. A true god of the game like Thai veteran Suebsak Phunsueb-considered sepak takraw's top player for the past several years-might be able to supplement that with advertisements and media work, but he's still no Beckham...
...Regardless of its statistical merits, the study was a reminder of just how subjective, and random, officiating can be. Few coaches, players or fans will deny that superstar players like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James or Dwyane Wade - as was ridiculously evident in last year's NBA Finals - get more favorable calls, or that home teams invariably get more of the benefit of a ref's whistle. But their willingness to call technical or flagrant fouls in crucial situations for actions that a few years ago would have been ignored has led many observers to believe that the refs' egos...