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...have brought much of the censure on themselves by changing their relationship with the fans. "There's a level of intolerance with athletes in general right now because of free agency and the fact that the average person can't relate to the salary professional athletes make," says Richard Lapchick, director of Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society. "Not only are these guys making all of this money, but because of free agency they're always switching teams. It breeds resentment among fans...
...Lapchick says a secondary, possibly unintentional, motive may lie behind the press's emphasis of the negative. "There's a political correctness in the press that dictates that white people don't say anything bad about people of color," says Lapchick, arguing that newspaper sports sections and nightly news sports segments offer the media a release valve for reporting the types of racially charged stories that have become taboo. "In the first 80 pages of a newspaper, writers feel they can't report anything that reflects badly on minorities. So on our sports pages we're regularly reading about athletes...
...team definitely not contending for a berth will be Yale. The Elis lost two tough games over the weekend in New York City at the Lapchick Memorial Tournament, hosted by St. John's University. Yale now stands at, ahem, 2-5. Head-to-head...
...Crimson cagers opened the season in the Lapchick Tourmanent--a tourney Big East power St. John's has won 13 consecutive years--and were easily defeated by the Redmen...
Phillips has been practicing with his basketball teammates since Monday of last week, only two days after the conclusion of the gridders' Ivy winning championships season, yet he saw 19 minutes of action as the Crimson placed third in the Lapchick tournament...