Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Should Judge Sweigert be sustained on appeal, more athletes are likely to make more money, but the top gainer stands to be Kapp. He has been an exile from pro football since 1971, when Rozelle banned him from the league for refusing to sign a standard player's contract...
No one's knowledge of Democratic national politics over the past 22 years will be entirely complete without this account by the man who operated so long at its stormy center. Larry O'Brien is one of the most decent men in a profession currently held in low...
...things stir college-level academics more than debating the relative merits of their professional schools. Now they will have even more to argue about. Change, a magazine that reports on higher education, this month published ratings based on an extensive poll of deans at all 1,181 accredited professional schools around the nation (see box). The deans, representing schools specializing in 18 different fields of study, *were asked just one question: "What in your opinion are the top five schools in your profession...
Until recently, that is. Many professional athletes today do not simply have college diplomas. They have master's degrees or doctorates as well, or are working toward them. Opportunities for fame and money in sport have expanded so radically that many young men with the brainpower to succeed in a profession find that it makes sense to take time out first to get rich in the arena...
Despite such troubles, most academic athletes get a kick out of both worlds. Says Dave Johnson: "There's just as much challenge in hitting that baseball and trying to figure out what they're gonna throw you as there is in solving differential equations." There is also the...