Broder should have topped up the way the company recommends, but wasn't planning on dragging anyone through the mud, Sullivan says.

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"I didn't want his name dragged through the mud like some kind of deadbeat, " she says.

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"You get to take a picture covered in mud with your T-shirt and you look like you've gone through the war, " says Jim Thornton, president-elect of the National Athletic Trainers' Association.

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