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...benefit. Professional sorts is a product. National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle has said it many times, each time he talks about what is good for the game." And that commercialism has done serious damage to amateur sports. The damage is most active in football and basketball where the pros rely on colleges as their major league Granfed most of the seniors suiting up for The Game have as hope of playing professional ball next year, but they are still part of the product. The product infects every level of organized sport where performance on the field is linked...
...Crimson squad into the Yale Bowl in front of 70,000 people, it will probably be the last time he suits up for a football game. The 5-ft., 10-in., 185-pounder realizes he is too small to have a real shot at making it in the pros...
...doesn't catch on in the pros right away, Villanueva has other plans. "The idea of wandering from pro camp to camp doesn't appeal to me," he says. "I might try out one year." But if that doesn't work out, he says, his family's Spanish language television business is, after business school, the logical alternative...
...does catch on with the pros, Villanueva would become one of the few straight-ahead kickers left in the NFL. That fact bothers Jim little and Danny less...
...cold," Restic recalls, and he's not talking about the weather. "It's calculated; it's one-dimesional. In the pros, it's a job, it's a business and it's run like a business." The time had come for Restic, formerly an assistant at Brown, to return to the Ivy League...