51.   The basic idea, which they learned from a retired professor from the University of Illinois, Aaron Mattes, is that most athletes do it all wrong.

52.   The fact that an athlete can do this to an official and not suffer immediate banishment is ridiculous.

53.   The NCAA decided athletes can now do for money what they have done for free since Naismith inflated a basketball.

54.   The Russians blustered and bullied because that is what nations and coaches and athletes do when things go against them.

55.   The thing to remember is no athlete can do any more than that, no matter what the scoreboard and the spectators say.

56.   There is no one condoning what these athletes did, but the savagely shrill reaction and the outrageously moral posturing by some critics is far disproportionate to the crime.

57.   This Harding simply did what most good athletes do.

58.   This is now a man who drops lines for effect, the way some great athletes do when they figure out the way of the world.

59.   U.S. athletes also did well in team sports.

60.   We say that they are selling their bodies, but how different is that from what athletes do?