But when football teammates told him their final year of the sport was on the line, he showed up to practice Thursday ready for one more season.
Although "March Madness" is one of the best-known times of the year on the sports calendar, the National Collegiate Athletic Association is hoping to generate even more mania for its annual basketball tournament.
"The average Ironman spends $22,000 a year on the sport".
And last week in Moscow, 10 years on, the sport continued to move on, and we all try to do the same.
Twenty years on, the sport is in vigorous health and, in no small part thanks to both the lives that were lost that weekend, so are its drivers.
"We're getting better and better players," said John Harrell, who worked for 40 years on the sports desk of The Herald-Times in Bloomington and now runs Web sites about boys' and girls' basketball in Indiana.
REBOUNDS ROD THORN, the Nets' president and general manager, will be named executive of the year by The Sporting News on Tuesday...
"You look at youth, veteran leadership, starting pitching and guys out of the bullpen, I think that as far as overall balance, the clubs are pretty similar," said Roberts, who was named NL manager of the year by The Sporting News on Monday.
REBOUNDS The Nets' president and general manager, ROD THORN, was presented with an executive of the year award by The Sporting News on Tuesday night.
