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Many argue that "big-time" players like, say, Michigan sophomore Chris Webber--virtual semi-pros, preparing for a lucrative NBA career--deserve to be scrutinized and their play criticized. By the same token, outgoing men's basketball captain Tyler Rullman, as an Ivy League student-athlete (and more the former than the latter), doesn't deserve as much scrutiny because he's playing at a different level...
While I agree that we should never pick on students, we cannot say that coaches or "big-time" athletes are the only ones worthy of scrutiny. Just as Webber must take the heat, so too must Rullman and every Harvard varsity athlete. They're all Division I athletes, representing their school. They choose to play, and by extension accept the pressure that comes with that decision...
Just ask Chris Webber and the rest of the Michigan basketball team, which sleepwalked through much of its season, only to awaken (well, almost) at NCAA tournament time...
...single play can define an entire career. Sheryl Swoopes will be remembered for her 47-point performance last week as she led Texas Tech to the national basketball championship. Forgotten was Swoopes' 31-point semifinal game and career as a high school phenom. In the men's championship, Chris Webber of Michigan scored a team-leading 23 points, and in the game's dying moments had possession of the ball. Instead of sinking the winning shot, he mistakenly called an illegal time-out, allowing the opposing North Carolina Tarheels to hold their winning margin. The now legendary play will always...
...Chris Webber + Stephen Hawking = A Brief History of Time-Outs...