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Here’s Adrian Peterson’s text to FoxSports.com and @LauraOkmin:
My brother passed the night before the combine and I decided to go through with it. The same reason why I will play this week. You may ask why? God wants good to come from it. … We mourn and grieve but heaven had the baddest welcoming party for my son. That knowledge gives me peace. I’m still hurt and feel the pain of life, but I’m able to function because of the peace and joy of knowing my loved ones are in a much better place.
The precise quote attributed to Vince Lombardi about concentrating on football, as formulated by Jim Valvano in his famous ESPYs speech, is:
Gentlemen, we will be successful this year, if you can focus on three things, and three things only. Your family, your religion and the Green Bay Packers.
If there’s one thing you ever read about the NCAA, it ought to be Taylor Branch’s “The Shame of College Sports”, which devastates pretty much every argument in favor of the NCAA’s existence.
Music by J Cowit and the Ruthless Orchestra.
The Creamy Middles Podcast is a weekly discussion attacking the belly issues of sports -- ideas that go beyond wins and losses. Jay Cowit usually produces it, though David may occasionally step in. Music is either royalty-free, by J. Cowit and the Ruthless Orchestra, or 29 Sunset. Subscribe in iTunes or in another podcatcher with this RSS feed.