Date:         Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:24:25 -0500
Reply-To:     Discussion of Topics for Soccer Referees
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From:         Jim Gordon <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

It wasn't John Wooden, it was sports journalist and commentator Heywood Hale
("Woodie") Broun who said it.
<http://slick.org/deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00358.html>  Broun, who had a
distinctive brush moustache and wore loud plaid jackets when he reported on
CBS, pronounced his last name "broon".

He and his generation are probably why there's a widely-held concept of the
SOTG.  Modern sports journalists, with a few exceptions, don't have a clue.

His actual words, before James A. Michener published the above quotation in
his 1976 book, Sports in America, may have been "Sports doesn't build
character; It reveals character."  Michener supposedly said later, "Sports
develops not character, but characters."

Regards,
Jim Gordon