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...money here is that around mid-May, the players will start crossing the picket line, and like the NFL in 1987, a new collective bargaining agreement to the owner's liking--i.e. one with a meaningful salary cap--will be crafted. The owners will then claim that the new agreement will allow small market teams--who supposedly, in the present system, cannot afford to pay top players--to compete with big market teams...
...awful as these situations are, they pale in comparison to the dilemma faced by the true student-athletes. Even at powerhouses like Penn State, some members of the football team know that they will not make it to the NFL. Nevertheless, they are part of the program and subsequently must do everything they can to create victories...
While Salaam has gone on to fame and future fortune in the NFL, Cheng's future does not look too shabby either...
...understatement to say that it is a rare to find Asian-Americans who excel on the football field. Most sports fans would be hard-pressed to name even one Asian in the NFL. Yet Cheng said he never noticed he was a bit of a pioneer, breaking Asian stereotypes on the football field, until his senior year when his government teacher discussed stereotypes and discrimination with him and a Korean friend...
...year marred by scab ball in the NFL did no lasting damage to football as an American institution. Why should it be particularly different with baseball...