After 24 knee operations, the National Football League’s former Man of the Year leans heavily on a crutch. When Reggie Williams pulls up his pants leg, what’s underneath looks like the trimmings from a butcher shop. His right leg is so ravaged that it’s three inches shorter than his left. Worse, it’s uninsured.
So begins a lengthy Washington Post story under the headline, Do no harm: Who should bear the costs of retired NFL players’ medical bills? Williams, of course, is a former Dartmouth and Cincinnati Bengals star.
(Thanks to all those who shared the link ;-)
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Brown has posted its list of recruits with short bios of each. Find the list here.
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Columbia football coach Pete Mangurian has addressed the issues swirling around football players on his team in this well-reasoned blog post. Among other things, he writes:
Right now I’m concerned with who is just saying incredibly inappropriate things and who has a real social problem. The outcome is the same, the perception is the same, but my concern is the cure may not be the same.
Former Columbia football player Anthony Villamagna has penned a very thoughtful column of his own in the Columbia Spectator.
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A true friend of Dartmouth football has been lost with the passing of Ann DeWolfe McLaughry at age 91. The McLaughry family, who founded a well-known real estate firm in the Upper Valley, came to Hanover when Tuss McLaughry took over as Dartmouth football coach in 1941 after a distinguished tenure at Brown. From the newspaper:
Known for supporting Dartmouth football, home tailgate parties were attended by many fans and friends.
