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...latest distressing news about the health risks of being a pro athlete. Some of those issues are known, and others related to drug use, says Raffaele Guariniello, a Turin prosecutor who has investigated doping in football and cycling. A study of health records of some 24,000 Italian football pros from 1960 to '96 turned up nearly twice the typical rate of liver, pancreatic and colon cancers. Sometimes unwittingly, footballers have used steroids, such as nandrolone, which are known to raise the risk of certain cancers. The now-anecdotal link between athletes and ALS is unexpected, and alarming. The Italian...
Teams looking at Morris will be trying to fill a size need at wide receiver. While in the Ivy League he could outrun and out-jump most defensive backs, Morris’ strength in the pros will be his ability to go across the middle of the field and make the catch. Morris has also emphasized to NFL coaches that the “pro-style” offense run by Harvard coach Tim Murphy strengthened his ability to read defenses and get open...
...luxury of time, because I had no money,” he says. “There are pros and cons to that. You know that everyone’s there for the right reasons, but you wonder, ‘How am I going to feed the crew...
...could have carried him straight to the pros after high school, except that the mind wanted a college education. So Lentz wound up at Harvard instead...
...like to get my nose dirty and go after it,” Kim said. “My favorite thing watching the pros play was all the bodies flying around. Knowing how the fans reacted to it and how it excited everyone…I get a joy and a rush from the fans feeding off of that...