Sports Salaries and Funny Money
Here's an article by Washington Post national baseball writer Barry Svrluga, a Duke grad, on the funny money involved in reported NFL salaries, especially in comparison to the guaranteed money in baseball.
Yeah, I know, even the minimum value of a contract is a lot of dough.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013