The path may have been cleared for college athletes to benefit financially from their name and stardom, but the pitfalls and realities of how to do it limit those that will to a particular few. Here's why.
It doesn't seem like that long ago, but 56 years ago, in 1966, the Beach Boys were at their peak on America's 4th of July, and this was the song that people were playing all over the world.
There is a realization that comes with athletes and sports of all sorts...that sometimes we get ahead of ourselves - push the envelope - a sense that sometimes we'd be better to just wait, and let kids be kids a bit longer.
We celebrate your independence as Americans this weekend - all of us - but only a few actually appreciate (and remember) the cost of what it took to be what we are. I would suggest that those who do not remember take time to figure it out...and soon.
Old photos never die, they just get better. And what people remember about old ballparks and old ballplayers is often better than the experience when it happened. Read and enjoy what someone sent this week to Press Pros.
