Thursday, October 02, 2003
On the other hand, I don't think Rush should have been forced to resign over it. Not that it much matters.
By and large, I don't think athletes are over or underrated because of their race, though they are certainly overexposed or underexposed because of it. The supposed paradigm of the phenomenon is Jason Sehorn, who was definitely overexposed because he was a good-lookin' fella who married an actress while playing in a media capital (cf. Rick Fox), and also because he was the only caucasian playing CB in the NFL (cf. Tiger Woods who is certainly not overrated, but whose exposure is greater because there aren't any other black golfers of note). But Sehorn's being overrated had to do with the fact that he never really recovered from his knee surgeries - before that he was an amazing corner, and he does after all have the two best interceptions I've ever seen ('97 going up against Cris Carter in the wild-card game and 2000 against Philly).
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By and large, I don't think athletes are over or underrated because of their race, though they are certainly overexposed or underexposed because of it. The supposed paradigm of the phenomenon is Jason Sehorn, who was definitely overexposed because he was a good-lookin' fella who married an actress while playing in a media capital (cf. Rick Fox), and also because he was the only caucasian playing CB in the NFL (cf. Tiger Woods who is certainly not overrated, but whose exposure is greater because there aren't any other black golfers of note). But Sehorn's being overrated had to do with the fact that he never really recovered from his knee surgeries - before that he was an amazing corner, and he does after all have the two best interceptions I've ever seen ('97 going up against Cris Carter in the wild-card game and 2000 against Philly).
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