Of course, Phelps is a once-in-a-generation athlete, but Franklin is on the cusp of becoming a major star.
Markoff, like many a somewhat-serious athlete, is a fan of self-tracking tools.
The disparity grows because the benefits of a student-athlete education are relatively static.
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Could they have worded the bylaw better and made it a violation for a student-athlete or his parent to solicit an offer?
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Coach Woods failed miserably in his duty to exemplify the traits and characteristics an adult should exude when working with and educating a student-athlete.
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Like a middle-distance athlete on a bend, anyone who wants to run something in his 40s needs to position himself for supremacy a decade earlier.
But according to my sources familiar with collegiate compliance statutes, these forms do not contain any language that hold a student-athlete financially liable for violating NCAA rules.
Who would be so sick as to make up a person just to have them die to intentionally hurt and most publicly embarrass this model of a student-athlete?
Working in California with coach Teri McKeever, she does hip-hop, yoga, Pilates and spin classes, trying to become a better all-around athlete instead of just a swimmer.
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But sometimes a merely above-average athlete becomes a star thanks to a single, invaluable weapon that opponents just can't stop.
It's a swift fall for the 70-year-old Hunter, a former athlete who was well-respected by many players.
Recovery for a weekend-type athlete would be at least nine months, according to Webb.
Did such a fear sit within a world-renowned athlete despite his fame and fortune?
It's part and parcel of being a professional athlete - if you're not sure, don't take it.
Yego had to battle "a lot of challenges" to gain acceptance in his own country as a world-class athlete.
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With these resources at hand, a problematic student-athlete has no excuse for failing to make reasonable progress towards their degree attainment.
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"Corvette is a world-class athlete that has gone back to the gym and has been in training, " says Ed Welburn, GM vice-president of global design.
Loucks switched sides and joined the very people whom he previously disparaged as evil, all the while maintaining that he is only acting as a free-agent athlete would.
One can certainly be a vegetarian and a high-level athlete.
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But he has pledged to stay in South Africa and fight the charges, adding that he's unlikely to escape notice as a well-known athlete who walks on prosthetic legs.
Pistorius has pledged to stay in South Africa and fight the charges if released, adding that he's unlikely to escape notice as a well-known athlete who walks on prosthetic legs.
After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, Robinson, who had been a stand-out athlete at UCLA, signed up in the spring of 1945 to play baseball for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues.
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In addition, clubs are permitted to train their young players for a maximum of five hours a week nowhere near the 10, 000 hours which sports scientists calculate it takes to train a world-class athlete, from the time they start playing.
Jones is also much closer to being a solo gold medalist in track than Oscar Pistorius, the South African sprinter who lost both legs at the knee as a child and yet became a world-class athlete using curved carbon blades for feet.
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Recovery for a world-class athlete like Vonn is more in the six- to eight-month range, according to Dr. Tom Hackett, a Vail, Colorado-based doctor at the Steadman Clinic who often travels with the U.S. ski team and helps with team members' treatment.
As well as finishing fourth in the heptathlon at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the Birmingham-based athlete also claimed a fifth-placed finish in the women's 4x400m relay.
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So Beane hires as his assistant a pudgy, diffident non-athlete named Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), an economics major a few years out of Yale, who happens to be a disciple of the sabermetrics guru Bill James.
Mr Heffernan - known as "The Heff" - was a keen athlete, and had been a member of Plymouth Leander swimming club and the Plymouth Harriers.
Richman, a self-proclaimed mediocre athlete who used his math skills to develop the now-famous game, was floundering with an 80-player All-Star set that drew minimal interest in the early 1960s.
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