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And that nice guy thing? I'm convinced it's true. Collision is the guy at the Granada who welcomes the constant stream of fans and endures undoubtedly awful come-ons from people
great at it.
wanting to say hello and shake his hand. He's even polite to the drunk guy whose brother's roommate's cousin went to high school with him and feels compelled to share his opinion on where he will go in the draft. He's the guy on campus who stops to say hello rather than hide beneath his sweatshirt hood and headphones. He's the guy who
Anyone not aware of his basketball domination need only consult ESPN, Sports Illustrated or the countless college and NBA experts calling him one of the best college players in the nation.
volunteers at a charity basketball game to benefit Habitat for Humanity.
Kansas has seen plenty of great
Maybe I'm wrong and this guy's only admirable qualities are on the court. Maybe it's just that chicks love a guy who is not afraid to cry. Or maybe this really is the most complete and extraordinary athlete this University has ever seen.
Greatness is more than victories, more than statistics and more than national titles. To be great is to be remembered, to be loved and to draw raw emotion from 16,300 fans hanging on to your every word.
players,plenty of guys who get the job done. But has this University ever seen a player with character of Collinson's caliber?
McNearney is a St. Louis senior in journalism.
Olympic sponsors wary of Committee's turmoil
The Associated Press
DENVER — Corporate sponsors that give about $50 million annually to the U.S. Olympic Committee are keeping a close eye on its disarray.
While few will comment publicly, many sponsors have expressed concern in private conversations with USOC officials.
"We've made clear with them that we want them to get their house in order." Xerox representative Carl Langsenkamp said. "The Olympic focus needs to be on the athletes, and it shouldn't be on issues affecting the USOC."
Sponsorships are the USOC's No.1 source of funding in non-Olympic years, and they rank second to TV rights fees when there are Olympics.
They account for roughly 40 percent of the USOC's budget.
And with many sponsorship
contracts set to expire after the 2004 Athens Games, now is not the best time for turmoil.
"I if we don't get this settled down, I think there's going to be a decrease in corporate sponsors," Colorado Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a 1964 Olympian in judo, told a gathering at USOC headquarters last week.
"And you're all going to get hurt."
Since the spiraling scandal started with a conflict-of-interest investigation of CEO Lloyd Ward late last year, eight USOC officials have resigned. The departed include Ward, president Marty Mankamyer and ethics compliance officer Pat Rodgers. Chief Operating Officer Fred Wohlschlaeger stepped down Monday night.
The USOC has formed a task force that is to report reform recommendations to the full board
"The Olympic focus needs to be on the athletes, and it shouldn't be on issues affecting the USOC"
Carl Langsenkamp
Xerox spokesman
during an April meeting. Campbell is one of three U.S. senators who appointed an independent commission to recommend changes by the end of June.
John Hancock Financial Services chief executive David D'Alessandro, who testified to Congress about the USOC, has said that he may activate a morals clause to negate his sponsorship contract,worth about $10 million a year.
In a letter to USOC officials this year, he wrote, "It is no longer
possible to overlook the seemingly nonstop turmoll and controversy that afflict your organization."
The USOC does have at least one reason to take heart, though, according to Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, a sports sociology professor at the University of Toronto: Corporate officials love being able to use the fivering Olympics logo in marketing.
"It's probably the most recognized logo in the world, so they wouldn't want to forfeit their right to the dance," Lenskyj said.
In the four-year period ending Dec. 31, 2000, corporate sponsorships brought in about $173.7 million, a little less than 40 percent of the USOC's total quadrennial budget.
The value of sponsorships was about $2 million in 2001 — the
last year for which figures were available—including an unidentified portion from value-in-kind sponsorships, in which goods or services were provided rather than cash.
At the height of the Salt Lake City bribery scandal, one sponsor, Blue Cross Blue Shield, commissioned polls that showed people were more concerned with the use of performance-enhancing drugs than scandals. The polls also showed a majority of respondents believed that sponsors had a positive effect on the Olympics, and 77 percent said they felt more positive about companies that paid to be Olympic sponsors.
"Certainly these types of issues do come and they go." Blue Cross Blue Shield representative Iris Shaffer said. "And both the media and the American public have a short attention span."
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