re: Matthew Boling begins track season with record long jump. Great athlete! Wins 200m also.

NVM I misread Canyon critter's post. My bad.

Yes, Matt should be dominating this season. Is Laird still in school?

Take your troll elsewhere

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How the hell does one determine who the "Thousandth best banker is?" Meanwhile, the stopwatch doesn't lie.

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Ha! Good question.

My point with athletes is that investing in your talent (with the purpose of making a living off of it) is pretty much all or nothing.

For example, let’s say you have two seniors at Central High School. One wants to be an NFL football player and the other wants to be the CEO of JPMorgan Chase. Both kids are very talented.

Well, let’s say the football player just wasn’t quite good enough for the NFL. He was the starting RB for a P5 team but just shy of NFL talent. He might be the 100th best RB in the world and that talent is basically useless. Maybe the CFL or something but opportunities are extremely limited.

But if the kid aiming for the CEO position at JPMC doesn’t make it there are a million places he could still apply his skill. There are countless banking jobs paying great salaries all across the country. He’ll fall in somewhere and do quite well.

Regarding the Boiling kid, if he’s not an Olympic star then running a 10.10 100 m. is basically useless after college. The best thing going for him is the novelty of a white kid who looks like the boy next door having borderline world class speed. If he were a black kid named Tyrone no one would pay him any attention.

I'll talk TnF all season...love it. Rohan Browning just had Australia's fastest Olympic 100m with a 10.01.

He will be sub 10 seconds soon and he's also only only 23 yrs old.

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Regarding the Boiling kid, if he’s not an Olympic star then running a 10.10 100 m. is basically useless after college. The best thing going for him is the novelty of a white kid who looks like the boy next door having borderline world class speed. If he were a black kid named Tyrone no one would pay him any attention.

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Sure

And If Valeriy Borzov wasn't a white man, then Eddie Hart and Rey Robinson wouldn't have had to concoct a story about having an outdated heat schedule, thus purposely disqualifying themselves, and sparing them the indignity of following Smith and Clark's little gesture four years earlier in Mexico City by standing beneath a white man as they draped the gold medal around his neck proclaiming him the "Fastest Man in the World".

Always happy to converse with a gentleman who understands race and it's practical implications in sports.

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I’ve never heard of Lawrence

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Sounds to me like a you problem.

You probably hear things every day.

You maybe choose to remember "white" and "black".

Those are things that your soul will have to come to terms reconciling.

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Sounds to me like a you problem. You probably hear things every day. You maybe choose to remember "white" and "black". Those are things that your soul will have to come to terms reconciling.

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People don’t really give a shite about college track. The only track athletes who achieve real fame with everyday sports fans are the Olympic champions and world record holders, primarily in sprinting events. The Carl Lewis, Usain Bolt, Michael Johnson types. It’s questionable if even the Leroy Burrell and Maurice Green types were household names in their prime and they were damn good.

Boiling is famous because it’s unusual for a white kid to have his speed. The media would not have brought him to my attention if he were black like the vast majority of world class sprinters.

He’s a fantastic athlete. I’m not taking anything away from him. But his race plays into his fame.

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Boiling is famous because it’s unusual for a white kid to have his speed. The media would not have brought him to my attention if he were black like the vast majority of world class sprinters.

He’s a fantastic athlete. I’m not taking anything away from him. But his race plays into his fame.

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This is true and it is not the worst thing in the world anyway. People like to see anomalies like this as it makes an interesting story. It is ridiculous that people are always trying to tag these types of situations as if they all have to be nefarious.

I am white and I think it makes it interesting that he is white but I will be rooting for Joseph Fahnbulleh, who is black, to kick his arse.

Rather than black or white, it is the red & black or orange & blue that determine our favorites.