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...professional teams, and the rewards are commensurate: Edwin Moses, the greatest hurdler who ever lived, earns through fees and endorsements about $500,000 a year, roughly the wage of a journeyman major-league baseball player. Football drains away sprinters to become pass catchers and weight throwers to play as linemen or on defense: six days after he won the 1984 Olympic silver medal in the shot put, Michael Carter was a nose tackle appearing in his first exhibition game for the San Francisco 49ers. For swimmers, divers, gymnasts and many others, there is effectively no professional life to follow except...
Consigli, one of the four offensive linemen returning to block for Hinz, also offers high-praise...
...objections to a blood sport were simply medical and not moral, the outsize linemen who blindside diminutive quarterbacks would inspire grim alarms from the American Medical Association instead of cheery press-box bulletins about "mild concussions." The fact of boxing, not the fate of boxers, bothers people. Naturally, the pugilistic brain syndrome of Ali is saddening. And when Gaetan Hart and Cleveland Denny were breaking the ice for the first match of Leonard-Duran, it was regrettable that nearly no one at ringside so much as bothered to look up or today can even very easily recollect which...
Kent Lucas spent the first three years of his collegiate football career struggling to overcome obstacles on the football field, obstacles usually in the form of 220-lb. defensive linemen...
...beginning of the season, it was like a joke," said Captain Kevin Dulsky, who often went head-to-head with Lucas in practice. "The linemen couldn't wait to go against Kent. But he worked really hard at it, and by the end of the season, he was really tough to handle...