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I did not agree with the comments made by Rick Reilly & I very likely paraphrased his article wrong BUT I simply mentioned that I had read somewhere (I could not remember the magazine) about a controversy regarding the Greeks having a baseball/softball team b/c they are the host country.
If Mexico hosted an Olympics, I too would qualify seeing that my father still lives there & my mother was born there along with 4 of my eldest sisters. I have read Sports Illustrated many times & have found that I usually enjoyed reading the opinion pieces by Rick Reilly. This one struck me b/c I had not heard of this being done nor had I ever really considered it that big of a deal. We have NBA players with multi-million dollar contracts playing for teams of their home countries. I don't think it's that different than what the Greeks are trying to do now.
EDIT: This piece by Rick Reilly is the one I was referring to not the one in ESPN magazine.
Last edited by CASIGKAP; 08-06-2004 at 01:10 AM.
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