Commentary
Need to enforce sportsmanship rules
Originally Published: February 12, 2009
By
Jay Bilas | ESPN.com
I passed a soapbox on the street today, and I decided to climb onto it.
Every once in a while, I hear that the players of today don't do things as well as the players of yesterday. Well, today's player tends to get a bad rap. The older set seems to believe that team play and fundamentals were better in the good old days, and that the old-school "players" were more skilled and simply better than today's "athletes."To continue reading this article you must be an Insider
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