He never acted as if he were a celebrity at all. Just a nice person with a truck.
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 05:10 PM 5/7/2011, Alan Rudy wrote:
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>
>> It turns out, by the way, that very critical material can be taught to,
>> and ingested and digested by, students
>> in sociology of sport classes, sociology of pop culture classes and
>> basically sociology of things about which students care classes
>
>
> I read "Out of Their League" by former pro footballer Dave Meggyesy when I
> was in junior high. Meggyesey was also a players' union organizer and now
> West Coast director of the union. He's also taught sociology of sports.
> His book was one of the more radical books I read as a kid.
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=ut3M85a6yTMC&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&dq=%22David+Meggyesy%22+%22All-American%22+linebacker+Syracuse&source=bl&ots=qpDIqdmD5f&sig=UhVcw9ocludM1ehYxE7D8ys9QcA&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#v=onepage&q=%22David%20Meggyesy%22%20%22All-American%22%20linebacker%20Syracuse&f=false
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