Word: simpson
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Arms open, legs churning, Buffalo Bills Running Back O.J. Simpson takes the hand-off and cradles the football in his arm. If there is a crease of space between the huge, straining bodies sprawled before him, he dashes through it, shaking off grasping hands. A linebacker collides with him, but O.J. simply caroms away. He shifts and feints, carving first one angle, then another on the open field. O.J. is now in a full gallop, and he has lost few foot races in the eight years of his National Football League career...
...Erving, Simpson and Morgan are the finest athletes in their sports, men of huge physical gifts, with great dedication to the honing of their arts and remarkable mental and emotional resiliency under pressure. They have much in common, most obviously that they are black. As superstars nonpareil, they are both inheritors and exemplars-the legatees of black athletes whose greatness moldered in Jim Crow obscurity, and the new idols of American sports culture...
...some of the men on the field, and those who coach them, the answers are clear. O.J. Simpson, for instance, has no qualms about describing the racial differences he has observed. Says he: "We are built a little differently, built for speed-skinny calves, long legs, high asses are all characteristics of blacks. That's why blacks wear long socks. We have skinny calves, and short socks won't stay up. I'll argue with any doctor that physically we're geared to speed, and most sports have something to do with speed." Joe Morgan also...
Ashford and Simpson-Sanders Theatre...
...tragedy can also falsely canonize a player and his career. Brian Picolo's losing bout with cancer did more for his stature as a player than touchdowns do for O.J. Simpson. The fact that Picolo died after averaging less than 250 yards per season with the Bears leaves a dubious mark on the athletic hero image that people now hold...